Re: Looking for directions on how to backup The Bilestoad

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Friday, March 22, 2013 4:22:42 PM UTC-5, Hot Rod wrote:
> On Friday, March 22, 2013 3:04:58 PM UTC-5, Antoine Vignau wrote:
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> > the Bilestoad uses half-tracks and the deprotection schemes you presented do not show any changes to the arm routines.
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> > An easy way would be to image the disk will "i'm fEDD up" with a .5 step :-)
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> > I should have written yesterday that on brutaldeluxe.fr/public/thebilestoad/ was uploaded a "clean" crack of the game.
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> No, those old crack/copy instructions won't work on Bilestoad (and yes, it uses half tracks).
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> Antoine, I checked the version that was uploaded that you mention, and unfortunately, it is not a clean crack in sense of preserving the original as it was (intro screen has been modified/tagged, and the original boot/RWTS has been replaced with DOS). 
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> ]HR

Just a quick update - working with the OP, I've finished creating a restored, normalized version that keeps the original intact (boot code and all).  After I gather my notes, I'll post a bit more detail.

(Thanks, Roger!)

]HR