sicklittlemonkey wrote:
Man, sometimes I curse Asmiov now. Sure it's great to have all that history preserved. But most of it's cracked. (Which is important history too.) There are guys on this list claiming to have _thousands_ of disks! Surely the original, uncracked versions must be out there.
Probably so, but it is a non-trivial effort to make a usable image or a copy of a heavily copy-protected disk. Simple protection schemes may permit SST-made nibble images, but those were just the tip of the iceberg. And the *cracks* are also an interesting part of history. It's a shame that we don't have a complete set of notes on the protection schemes used...but maybe that's why you want the protected disks. ;-) -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."