[Coco] Shamus... copy protected?

[Rogelio Perea]

Just unearthed this Radio Shack game for the CoCo: Shamus. Before running
the program in my CoCo 3 I tried to back up the original disk and BACKUP
bombed in the middle of the process, I heard the drives spin and the head
positioning mechanism go through its motions until the familiar "multiple
attempts to read" sound gave a warning of trouble... soon after came the I/O
Error report.

The game loads and plays with no problem so I assume copy protection is at
work here. When running the Basic loader, right after the binary begins to
LOADM there are a few repetitious reads from the drive that sound almost as
a failed load but then the game starts; final check to see if game is
pirated or not?

Just curious... my disk zapper also fails to read one sector at the
directory track...


-=[ Rogelio ]=-