Re: EDD Plus Project

["Randall Flagg" <rfs_no_spamz_@apple2.com>]

Is there any software out which has not been already cracked??
Seems to be more easy to deprotect a software than to recreate the EDD hard- 
and software.


"Henry S. Courbis" <apl2research(a.t.)comcast.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Hello everyone!
>
> Have a few questions I was hoping to find answers to concerning the EDD 
> Plus card.
>
> First I'd like to know who here would be interested in a reproduction of 
> the card?  I've never worked with it so I don't really know what it's 
> potential is.  From what I understand it will allow coping of most, if not 
> all, copy protected Apple II disks.  I also believe the copies created 
> when using the EDD Plus card are still protected and not cracked - 
> basically a 100% exact copy of the original disk.  Does anyone here have 
> any additional information or clarifications to those statements?  On a 
> side note the new design will support both full and half high Floppy 
> Drives to allow the board to be used in more Apple IIs then the original.
>
> Next I would like to ask who would be interested in the card if it was 
> able to create Images of copy protected disks?  I know there's a version 
> of Nibble out there that sort of does this already, but from my own past 
> experience this program wasn't the simplest to use, didn't always work for 
> some software and it also created two files for the Image.  My thoughts 
> were to rewrite the EDD software to allow it to dump an Image file 
> (preferably no larger then 140k) to Floppy or HDD which would then allows 
> users to upload them to the Net or even store them on other media (backup) 
> and restore at will.  I know there are 'purists' out there who like to 
> have original versions of software as well as cracked versions.
>
> Which begs the next question - Is there source code for the EDD v4.2 
> software?  I just tried Site 
> http://www.apple2info.net/hardware/edd/edd.htm and they were down, 
> although I don't believe they had the source code anyway.
>
> I recently spoke to Geoff Weiss about this software project and discussed 
> some of the details.  I had an idea that it would be greatly beneficial, 
> for obvious reasons, to try and write the Image feature of the software to 
> save the Image as a .DSK file.  This would then fit on a 140k Floppy Disk 
> as well as allow emulators to run these files.  Geoff doesn't believe that 
> it would be possible to save the raw data stream in .DSK format because of 
> all the extra data the EDD would be able to read unlike a standard .DSK 
> creation program.  Any of you programmers out there have some comments 
> about this possible .DSK Image addition to the EDD software?  I'm not that 
> familiar with the .DSK format so I don't really know its limitations.  If 
> .DSK isn't possible then I guess we'll create our own format unless 
> someone can recommend something else that would be possible or suitable 
> (.PO maybe?).  A custom format Image file would then require all Emulators 
> to be rewritten if they wanted to support it.
>
> Feel free to contact me directly (email and numbers on Web Site) or post 
> comments here.  Thanks in advance for your time.  Any help would be MUCH 
> appreciated and a big time saver!
>
>
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