> It scares me that people actually read the crap I write > But I appreciate it!! > > Maybe when (yes when) I ship Dexter, I will revisit the Apple ][ diskette > preservation stuff. The copy protection used by Broderbund fascinates me and I'd love > to preserve it before all original disks are lost forever. I am a little mystified > why people are content to only have cracked images preserved when technology exists > today to preserve the original copy protected images and make the emulators be able > to boot them and play them. I guess what I am saying is I'd love to have some > documentation that explains exactly how the copy protection worked instead of just > "It's some nibble counter that you nop out here, etc..." *end rant* > > Too many awesome projects that I _could_ work on... I'd love to do this stuff full > time and quit my day job
Poke me on IRC about the Broderbund apple2 stuff; I have a working RWTS18 discferret flux decoder, though it has to be manually hacked to skip the garbage before the first sector at the track gap. I've corresponded with Roland Gustafsson about it, but he didn't have access at the time to the source code used for originally mastering the disks and producing that 'sync hider garbage' used as (and in addition to custom-by-title sector headers) a per-title key.
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