Re: Making Backup of Multiscribe

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Simon Williams wrote:
> 
> Hello...
> Wondering if anyone can tell me how to make a backup copy of 
> Multiscribe... I have a handful of original copies, but they
> are slowly all going bad (not recognizing side 2 of the disk).
> I've tried copying the good ones using Copy II Plus 7.1, but
> I'm obviously doing it wrong since the copies made from the
> *good* originals exhibit the same behaviour as do the *bad*
> originals. Since I don't have docs for Copy II Plus, I'm not
> sure really what I'm doing.
> FWIW I've been using
> BIT COPY -->
> AUTO COPY -->
> NAME: MULTISCRIBE
> And then leaving the 'technical' settings as is. During the
> copying process no errors are reported, but when I boot the
> disk it just hangs at the *INSERT SIDE 2* screen.
> I presume there's some additional trickery needed to copy
> this one since I had no trouble copying Dazzle Draw and Ms
> Pac Man and a few others that I would presume to be copy 
> protected.

It's been so long that I don't recall how I did it. It wasn't 
all that long after I got it that I acquired a hard drive for my 
IIe and had to hunt up a non copyprotected version.  A friend 
happened to have one. He related to me that when he bought MultiScribe 
he had the option of buying a copyprotected version at the regular 
price or a non copyprotected version at a higher price.
I'd suggest instead that you download a non-copyprotected version.
Another option is BeagleWrite. Beagle Bros. bought MultiScribe and
renamed it.

	Wayne