*early* Domain OS available? ---> 8" floppy with Imagedisk

[Chuck Guzis]

On 7/16/2006 at 2:33 PM Fred Cisin wrote:

>How well does the Catweasel deal with those?
>The Central Point Option Board does NOT do well, although
>most of that is due to their software implementation
>(it can't copy anything that doesn't have an index pulse!)

It depends pretty much on your coding skills--but I've had very good luck
with some really oddball recording schemes.  Of course, I was just reading
the diskettes, not making copies.  That could be a different kettle of
fish.

>One [bored] day we put together a copy protection scheme,
>that wouldn't stop DISKCOPY, but would stop Norton fUtilities
>and Option Board.  Back side of a hard-sectored diskette,
>formatted originally with a drive indexing off of hub instead
>of sensor.

What defeated almost all copy-protection schemes was that, at some point,
you have to have the executable code in memory and a determined cracker
will figure out a way to defeat all of your lovely protection code.

All you can hope for is that it slows the crackers down a bit.  Make it too
hard and they feel challenged and just redouble their efforts.

Cheers,
Chuck