Re: copy protected disks via adt???

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jm writes ...
> 
> I found a program(on asimov, which no longer seems to be up :(     )

     Asimov is sometimes fairly busy. Try one of the Asimov mirrors:

  ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/



> called Super Saltine Transcopy. It looks like it's a program that was
> originally used by pirates to send copy protected disks by modem
> (turns one copy protected disk into two non-protected disks.)

     Yes. IF SST succeeds in defeating the copy protection sufficiently
to permit copying, it moves a copy protected 5.25" 140k disk to two 140k
disks whose contents can be transferred.


> When I
> tested it out with an emulator by changing NIB to DSK and back it
> seemed to work, however, when I tried it out on a //c the resulting
> disk just make a "Check Disk Drive" error when I tried to boot it.
> It's possible that I messed up somewhere along the line because I only
> had one drive, which means I needed to do about 40 disk swaps.

     SST is not especially easy to use with two-drives, one drive would
be murder!-- lots of chances for an error. You did remarkably well
getting a working disk image.


> If you
> want it I can send you a copy.

     Thanks for info and the the offer! I have SST and have read the
docs but have been too lazy/chicken to try it. So far, it has always
been possible to defeat the protection on diskettes I cared about
changing to .dsk disk images and use DISK2FILE or ASIMOV to create the
disk image.



Rubywand