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

[wsgentry@nedata.reston.ingr.com (W. Scott Gentry)]

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

>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.

If memory serves, there were several versions of Locksmith that could copy
the disk.  Just an FYI.  There were also several character editors available
but I don't know if the copy protection scheme was used for character data.
I mention this because an old friend of mine, Rich Mlodoch (hi!) wrote one.
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