Re: Disk Muncher

[pg@sff.net (Paul Guertin)]

brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) wrote:

> Now you got me in reminiscing mode...
> 
> Krak-Man, Mr. Xerox, the Black Bag, the 212, and so on...

1200 Club, Gumby, Disk Jockey, the MPG, Tom E. Hawk, Apple Rebel...

> I've never seen anything else by The Stack either, but never really
> took much stock in Disk Muncher 1.0 because despite the 13 second read
> and 13 second write (that's cool, pirate a plain ol' disk during the
> 30 seconds your friend is in the bathroom) it wasn't terribly
> effective.

What do you mean by "not terribly effective"? Sure, it wasn't that good 
a bit copier, but it was great for copying cracked wares. Much better
than COPYA.

The first bit copier I used was Locksmith 3.1. Boy, that was slow. Then
someone gave me a nice program called "Pirate's Friend", which was much 
faster (it copied 2 or 3 tracks per pass, with no delays). It became
my favorite until Disk Muncher came around. I couldn't believe how fast
that was. And then I got Locksmith 5.0, with the Fast Disk Copy that 
could duplicate a disk in 16 seconds flat, or do a copy+verify in 24
seconds. Difficult to do better than that because at 300 rpm, you need 
at least 7 seconds to read or write 35 tracks.

When I tried to copy a protected program, I generally tried DM or LSFDC
first, then Copy II Plus (4.3, then 6.6 when I got it), and if that
didn't work it was time to sit down and try to understand what was going
on...

I had disks full of copy programs (EDD, Echo, Nibbles Away, Back-It-Up,
The Clone Kit, Penulti Copy, Magnetic Xerox...) but I rarely used them.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net