Re: Lock 'N' Roll Disk Copy Program (similar to EDD3)

[johnsonlam <johnsonlam.hk@gmail.com>]

On Feb 14, 10:20 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> I see--the title made me think it was a commercial program, and
> I expected it to be copy protected.  ;-(

Only a few can be avoided from cracking :-)
People cracking motivation are awesome.

> Although I understand your concern, and any medium will have a
> finite life, I see no evidence of large numbers of suddenly unreadable
> diskettes.

Because in US climate usually dry, in my city humid always above 80%,
hot summer and chill winter, fungus can cause rapid death of tapes and
diskettes, our jokes is -- if the media can survive here they can use
everywhere.

> We will not be "surprised" by their sudden failure--there will be
> years of warning as the error rates take off.

While I got a bad sector in the middle of a binary, the file was gone
forever.

> Until that happens, I see no reason to worry about the readability
> of magnetic media that is stored carefully.

Most of the people here don't have garage, store room or something
like this ...
Small and high density living condition causing the trouble that
nothing left behind after a period of time.

Thanks to my friend (we meet in this newsgroup), he manage to save a
modified MCS music data on a bad sector floppy.