Re: Disk Muncher

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

Hi.  Since the topic is being discussed, will I be able to copy my
"copy-protected" programs to a hard drive?  I have a few copying programs,
but I haven't used them in a while and I was just backing up software I
bought to another floppy (honest :-), so I have no experience with copying
it to a hard drive.  If anyone has any suggestinos or information, please
let me know.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html

Paul Guertin wrote in message <36a07a20.16843676@news.newsguy.com>...
>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