Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection-- Why .SDK

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1998031804571800.XAA27057@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>I can see the reason for calling it .sdk, but how did it get started?  .sdk
>is not an "official" suffix.  Shrinkit will always put *.shk as default, even
>if it is a disk image.

   Not with GUPP 1.0.6 or better and GSHK. I highly dislike disk
images, however, requiring one to have a 3.5" disk or ramdisk handy
just as a temporary dumping point that you have to copy things off of
afterwards to the HD. Sure, if it's a selfbooting demo that knows
where it's located on that disk, that's what .SDK was designed for and
acceptible. But, for file archives, ditch the silly disk wrapper and
store them as *files*

   It's still an order of magnitude more work to get legitimate
software off of the known software sites into emulators than pirated
crud. All because some authors can't be bothered to do anything more
than take the cheezy way out and bury their heads about their making
piracy so much more easy and desirable.

Nathan Mates

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