[Coco] Shamus... copy protected?

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Tue Dec 25 20:13:37 EST 2007


So, will the hack for Sands of Egypt work for Shamus?

Bruce W.


> Sands of Egypt works the same way IIRC, it has one bad sector and looks 
> for
> that. If it finds a good sector it bombs out. I copied it on a Model III
> with Trakcess.
>
> Neil

>> 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.

>> -=[ Rogelio ]=- 




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