Re: Apple Software Bank - anyone have it?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Stavros Karatsoridis wrote:
> On Feb 6, 1:06 pm, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have, and would be willing to image, the complete Apple
> > Software Bank?
> >
> > From what I can find, they published 5 volumes total.  Some of the
> > programs can be found here and there, on random images, but I haven't
> > been able to find a comprehensive set on Asimov or anywhere else.
>
>
> I have all five volumes. I will upload images of all five to Asimov.
> They have been converted to DOS 3.3 from DOS 3.1 (yes, 3.1. Those
> disks came out in 1978 and 3.2 didn't come out until 1979).
>
> As for Artist Designer and Pascal Animation Tools, those are copy
> protected and harder to image. They are both Pascal programs, and fell
> under Apple's Special Delivery Software line. Strangely enough, the
> Pascal Animation Tools specifically say not to use them with any
> version of Pascal greater than 1.0, even though 1.1 was out at the
> time the tools were released.

I'm just guessing, Stavros, but I'll bet that the protection on
the Pascal disk(s) is just a particular bad sector checksum...

If that's the case, they should copy with any sector copier that
ignores errors, like COPYA with >B942:18.  The program will not
pass its protection check, but all the information is captured
so the test can be removed later.

-michael

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