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

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Sam writes ...
> 
> 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.


     There is some info on deprotects for various versions in Computist. The
one in Issue 52 may work for your version. You can read the Computist page on
the Computist Texfiles site at ... 

http://computist.textfiles.com/ISSUE.52/page-14.jpg .



Rubywand