Re: copy protected disks via adt???

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Mark Vanderwiel writes ...
> 
> I'm trying to help out a school to make legal copies of some of there
> old licensed Apple II education software into .DSK pc emulation format.
> But only a few of the disks were read successfully with ADT 1.21.
> 
> So, what's the answer??? I have many possible ideas...
> 
> If the disks (from MECC) are copied protected, is there a way to make a
> binary copy via some other method besides ADT???

     The copy protection used by MECC is going to block transfers.


> I have heard of
> DSK2FILE, but I have not tried it yet.

     DSK2FILE is a good utility for creating disk image files on a 128k
//e ... IIgs. It requires that the source diskette be non-copy
protected.



>  I'm afraid that it will also
> fail to read the diskettes because of the copy protection.
> BTW does ProDos vs. Dos make any difference...

     No. 

> 
> Was their any nibble copy program that could produce/send a binary copy
> of each track/sector to the com port or file?
>

     As far as I know, there is no utility which will transfer
copy-protected diskettes. One way or another, the transfer process
involves producing a non-copy protected .dsk, .nib, .sdk, ... file
before doing a transfer.

 
> What about using an Apple IIGS to make a binary image???

     IIgs or II+, it does not matter. The barrier is the copy
protection.

 
> Any suggestions welcome

     There do not appear to be any sites which maintain .dsk files of
MECC software. So, you will not be able to just download the disk
images.

     A good try is to get an MECC copy program by John Kielkopf named
"meccopy". You can find it as meccopy.sdk on Ground at ...

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/apple8/Utils/

Meccopy will make copy de-protected copies of many MECC products. (To
get the program going on your Apple II, transfer meccopy.sdk file to the
Apple and use ShrinkIt 3.4 to unshrink the file to a formatted 5.25"
diskette.)

     Once you have deprotected copies of the MECC disks, there should be
no problem transferring them to the PC using ADT.




Rubywand