Re: Need replacement disks for Tower of Myraglen

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

Peter Watson wrote:
> I don't know whether block 7 was anything more than a simple "bad" block,
> but since it was a very early GS game the 3.5" copy protection mechanism may
> well have been fairly unsophisticated (compared to the 5.25" copy protection
> schemes). My memory says that the sector copy disk worked just fine. And I
> remember being a little surprised that a sector copy wrote(?) a "bad" block
> when the read failed instead of writing an empty "good" block.

A "bad block" protection scheme is about the only protection scheme
that was really feasable on the GS  with a 3.5" disk and ProDOS, so
what you say Peter makes sense. Although some groups like FTA did find
ways to access the hardware directly later on, this was difficult to do
with the Smartport and block devices. 

- Paul