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

[Andrew]

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