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need help with Think Quick, asimov.net want list item



I noticed, on the csa2 FAQ, that "Think Quick," a pretty fascinating
and underrecognized puzzle game aimed at kids (but good for anyone) is
on the asimov.net disk image Want List.  I did some further research
and learned that the copyright holder, The Learning Company, has been
absorbed into Broderbund and not really concerned about their earlier
copyrights anymore.

I own a copy of Think Quick, which I purchased back around when it
came out, and on top of that I made a lot of levels for it that I'm
sentimental about and would like not to lose once my Apple II hardware
finally goes.  So I tried to see if I could transfer everything
through ADT and get disk images on my PC for use in emulators, but it
didn't work, due to the copy protection.  I tried using SST to make
.NIB images, too, but those don't work either.  The disk image boots
up, gets to the title screen, then dumps me to a screen that says,
"Oops!  There's something wrong with the disk!"  I'm not sure if I
could have made it work by entering different parameters into SST, but
I wouldn't know what to try.

The great irony is that I can make Apple disk copies of the thing with
Copy II+ v8.1, by selecting Bit Copy/Auto Copy, and then "Learning
Company (new)" from the list of software.  I just can't make disk
images of the thing.

Does anybody have any advice on how to procede from here?  If anyone
is interested in helping me out, just let me know what you need.  If
the broken disk images I have can be cracked, I can provide those; I
can also mail out the Apple disks themselves.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer me!

-- Sam.