Re: Hardware musings

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

> I think you're underestimating the complexity a little when it comes to
> copy protected disks. Buffering an entire track would work OK for a lot
> of titles, but would fail for software that relied on synchronising
> tracks.

Yikes!  If there are such titles, and they can't be backed up in .nib
format because they're too far off the mark, then how have these things
survived for so long that they can still be backed up and/or hopefully
replicated?

Going really far on a limb:
In theory, there's no such things as inifinity or impossibility with
this stuff -- just things that are really darn difficult to fathom
until you can wrap your head around them and break the problem into
small simpler problems.  Remember, we're not talking about going
through the disk II controller board, or an IWM chip.  So what else
would it take to capture these oddly formatted disks?