[Coco] Who's good at copying 450 CoCo disks?

[Michael Crawford]

> As I said above, I think it would be a good thing for Carey to split the 
> work up, but I feel that likely copy protected discs should go to 
> someone who really seems to have a handle on that sort of thing, and 
> that would Tim, IMHO.
> 
Agreed!

Tim is amazing :)

Michael Crawford

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew" <keeper63 at cox.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:44 AM
Subject: [Coco] Who's good at copying 450 CoCo disks?


> All, I am going to repeat something here that I just emailed Carey on 
> regarding this project. I think the idea of splitting things up is a 
> good one, but I wanted to clarify something here for the benefit of 
> Carey and everyone else:
> 
> -- [ BEGIN ] --
> 
> "...on the disks - I do not have any special "copy protection" bypass 
> gear, nor would I have time to devote to attempting to crack such a 
> thing unless it was something very special.
> 
> However, Tim Lindner does - if it hadn't been for him, Gates of Delerium 
> would never have been saved. He had a particular piece of hardware from 
> Germany. I don't remember the name properly, though (KopyCat? CopyKat?).
> 
> If you are planning on splitting the work up, I can best handle the 
> standard floppies and the OS-9 floppies. Those that are likely copy 
> protected would be better handled by Tim or someone else..."
> 
> -- [ EOM ] --
> 
> I just want to make it clear that I am not some "master cracker" of copy 
> protection or anything for the CoCo - if it wasn't for the masterful 
> help of Michael Crawford and Tim on the Gates of Delerium project we 
> completed together, we wouldn't now have it available today (BTW - does 
> anybody know if our file ever got posted?), nor would we have the 
> blessing of Dave Dies to release Diecom's CoCo software into the public 
> domain.
> 
> As I said above, I think it would be a good thing for Carey to split the 
> work up, but I feel that likely copy protected discs should go to 
> someone who really seems to have a handle on that sort of thing, and 
> that would Tim, IMHO.
> 
> BTW - The name of that piece of hardware that Tim has is called a 
> "CatWeasel"...
> 
> -- Andrew L. Ayers
>    Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona
> 
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