[Coco] Easy way to copy 40 track disks to the CoCoSDC?

[Arthur Flexser]

There's a distinction between cracking a program and what The Defender does.
Cracking a program involves removing the copy protection.  The Defender
leaves the copy protection intact, and uses special (hardware?) techniques
to copy the disk despite its being protected.

Art

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
wrote:

> Well... I did mention that if you could crack a program, which "The
> Defeater" seems to be able to do... then, you could use it.
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Darren A
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Al Hartman  wrote:
>
>  You aren't going to be able to run protected software from the CocoSDC.
>>
>>
>
> Actually, most (if not all) protected software does run from the CoCo SDC.
> Having a solution that would provide the ability to run protected software
> from modern storage media was one of my main goals in creating the CoCo
> SDC.
>
> Of course there is some difficulty involved since you have to create an SDF
> disk image that is a faithful representation of the protected disk(s).
> Traditionally, the tool used to achieve this on the CoCo has been "The
> Defeater" by Carl England.  Most of the protected titles have already been
> converted to DMK images for use in emulators like MESS and VCC.  If a
> working DMK image exists, you should be able to use the "dmk2sdf" utility
> to convert it to SDF format for use with the CoCo SDC.
>
> - Darren
>
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