Skate323k137
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That's great to hear. Sounds like a great device for continued preservation and I'm glad it sounds like at least eventually you should get write ability too
I can totally get that. I'm glad to see stuff preserved regardless.@LaPorta Just be careful! It gives me "the bug" to search for more and more early copy protected Mac software regardless if it's a game or app I even want.
Well I figure I can do my part for the games I have. Even if it isn’t copy protected, it’s nice to have a real nuts and bolts copy.@LaPorta Just be careful! It gives me "the bug" to search for more and more early copy protected Mac software regardless if it's a game or app I even want.
Sure, any time, CPS1/CPS2 I have pretty much all those EPROM and GALs around.That’s great that you can do that. I may contact you for newly burned Street Fighter II CE ROMs if the originals in my machine ever crap out!
Yeah, I hear ya. I have only contributed a couple, but it's neat when you find something undumped.I don't have an EPROM burner. I really need to get one at some point. But I doubt very much my arcades have any rare revision ROMs.
Disk Copy images can't store low level details of a floppy disk so they can't be used for preserving copy protected games.Hmm...I made a copy of this game, Balance of Power. Copied fine. Made a DC42 image of it. Wrote that sucessfully to a floppy. Game won't run on my SE because it is an "unauthorized copy." I guess I really do need to wait it out!
The MOOF format is designed to convert a flux image into a useable Disk Copy style image that includes metadata to describe disk contents (such as not-really-bad-blocks-but-useable-data used in copy protection.) That way it gets to skip the pesky physics.I'd also note that writing flux back to a disc is significantly harder than reading it from a disc, because you're fighting physics to a certain extent. My greaseweazle, for example, will let you attempt to write the flux back but the result very rarely actually works properly. So the cynic in me suspects that there may be a technical reason or two behind the legal concerns, as well.
The MOOF format is designed to convert a flux image into a useable Disk Copy style image that includes metadata to describe disk contents (such as not-really-bad-blocks-but-useable-data used in copy protection.) That way it gets to skip the pesky physics.