Re: Backing up protected disks

[sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com>]

On Aug 21, 1:24 pm, KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have several disks of original software that I am trying to back up,
> including a dealer demo original of Archon and a multi-disk set of
> Talking Text Writer.  All are the original factory-produced disks with
> original factory labels.  Neither of these programs seem to copy to
> image format with ADTPro.  Can anyone tell me what I might be doing
> wrong?  I'd like to figure out what I need to do before these disks
> disintegrate forever!

So you want to make images of these for emulation, right?
Unfortunately Archon is tricky: you'll still need to partially crack
it to get it to run under emulation. Or perhaps I can help you with
that part. Is there something different about this ("dealer demo")
copy?

You'd need to use SST:
http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Docs/SaltinesSuperTranscopyDocs.txt
(Steps 10 on can be accomplished more easily using Ciderpress.)

Then if you want to crack it yourself the info is here:
http://victa.jamtronix.com/display/page/740
(NB: This might or might not apply to your version of Archon.)

The same goes for TTW. You can search the index here:
http://victa.jamtronix.com/display/topics/1

Cheers,
Nick.