[Coco] [Color Computer] Dallas Quest

[John Riddle]

Robert Gault's site tells you exactly how to bypass the Sands of Egypt copy
protection:
http://home.att.net/~robert.gault/Coco/Biblio/Sands.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
[mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]On Behalf Of Neil Morrison
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:22 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Dallas Quest



----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu>


> I may be misremembering, but I think Steve Bjork, the author of
Sands of
> Egypt, may have posted instructions for backing it up on Delphi at
one
> time.  Maybe someone can elaborate?
>
> Art Flexser
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Stephen Blunt wrote:
>
> > Thanks Neil! Never thought of opening the drive latch. I guess
that
> > completely removes the possibility of making a disk image
though - Virtual
> > drive latches in an emulator aren't so easy to open ;>

That's true, but with the emulator you may be able to find and fix
the protection. IIRC, it relies on either a sector or a track being
missing. Perhaps if you changed the simulated sector numbers?

> > Anyone got a rough walkthrough for sands of Egypt?
> >
> > My all time favorite game for coco has to be Cave walker (even if
I never
> > finished it - came very close though). I even mapped out all the
caverns and
> > everything.


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