Re: Old games --> DOS 3.3 --> DOS 3.3 Launcher on GS

[vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright)]

Grover Thomas (grover@emunix.emich.edu) wrote:
: Recently I have been playing a little with John MacLean's great little
: program "DOS 3.3 Launcher".  Unfortunatly, all of the stuff I am trying
: to convert to it does NOT seem to be DOS 3.3.
: 
: Most of this stuff is old games that would be great fun if I could just
: luanch them from GS/OS and play them for a bit, then quit back to GS/OS
: without re-booting.  Things like Arcticfox, Alternate Reality, Seven Cities
: of Gold, Airheart, Lode Runner, and others...
: 
: Many of these seem to be ALMOST a correct DOS 3.3, but have some sort
: of difference that makes them unreadable as DOS 3.3.   Copy II+ can make
: copies of the disks themselves (sometimes even remove the protection)
: but they still seem to be wierd variants to normal DOS 3.3.
: 
: Does anybody have a method for turning these into normal DOS 3.3 images?
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: (__)  Grover Thomas                   InterNet:  grover@emunix.emich.edu  (__)
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Whats messing you up is the copy protection on the disks (more than likely).
Many games use a slightly modified DOS or track/sector layout to keep
people from copying them.  Actually, thats why copy ][+ existed in the
first place.  

(start slide into the past)
Ah, the happy carefree days of software piracy.  Staying up all night
to 'crack' the game you just bought (often more fun than the game
itself).  AEs full of copyrighted software.  Wandering around
modem-land at 300 baud.  Issues of Nibble with more ads than articles.
That was the Apple ][s height.
(start plummet into the present)

Excuse me, I have to logoff and weep now.

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