Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection

[Cameron Kaiser <cdkaiser@delete.these.four.words.concentric.net>]

dougkalley@aol.com (DougKalley) writes:

>Do you remember that software alignment program for the commodore that would
>bash the r/w head on the inside track to "bounce" itself back into place? A
>classic remedy to prolong that trip to the repair shop.

If you're referring to Vorpal Disk Toolkit, it's *saved* me several trips
on goopy drives. The program works surprisingly well. But if you don't use
the original, then you *will* have a wrecked 1541 because the program uses the
waveform generated by the disk to determine if it's whacked the head right.

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Cameron Kaiser
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