Re: inCider's "Top 40 Games of All Time"

[paw@bbs.ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)]

From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)

>Wizardry had one of the nastiest @#$! copy protection schemes around.
>It _could_ be copied with sync bitcopy (Tracks $11-$14 if I remember
>right), but it took lots of time, fiddling and drives that were
>running at the right speeds.  A real pain, because with the use the
>disks got a backup copy was a must.
>
>And, as far as I know, nobody ever bothered to learn enough pcode to
>crack the thing.

Not true, I know of at least one Australian who did make a pCode patch
for Wizardry! Not to finding and fixing a bug in ProDOS 8 v1.3 or so
that had had Apple stumped for a while! (The old track 0 trashing problem).
One of the brighter people around...
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