[Coco] Shamus... copy protected?

[Rogelio Perea]

Any hint as to the utility author or maybe even the published work
whereabouts (magazine, on-line, etc)?

Was thinking of hacking up a quick Basic program using DSKI$ and DSKO$ to
create a copy, but have doubts that DSKI$ will be able to read the clobbered
part of the disk. And without knowing exactly how the affected sector is
setup...


-=[ Rogelio ]=-


On Dec 25, 2007 7:54 PM, John Donaldson <johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:


> I remember back right after Sands of Egypt came out, someone wrote a

> utility that not only copyied Sands of Egypt to another disk, then

> clobered the single sector so the copy would play..

>

>

> Neil Morrison wrote:

>

> >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

> >

> >On Dec 25, 2007 3:05 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:

> >

> >

> >

> >>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...

>