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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4045.0. "Copyist DPT" by ACOSTA::MIANO (John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr) Thu Aug 23 1990 23:58

Has anyone else ordered Copyist DPT?  Whenever I start up DTP the program
comes up and asks for the desired resolution.  However, when the program
does its copy protection check the light on the drive goes on and stays
on and the program locks up the system.  My original copyist works
fine so I don;t think its hardware.

However, I just got a replacement disk and it does the same thing!!!

I am really pissed off.  This copy protection crap is B.S.  

Is anyone else having a problem?

John
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4045.1a workaroundSAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterFri Aug 24 1990 11:585
    I assume you are referring to Dr. T's "The Copyist DTP".  I have had
    it fail when the key disk is not in the drive when I start the program.
    If I remember to put the key disk in the drive first, it works OK for
    me.
        John Sauter
4045.2ACOSTA::MIANOJohn - NY Retail Banking Resource CntrFri Aug 24 1990 14:514
I definately have the key disk in the drive before the program starts.  The
same problem occurs when I try to start the program off of the floppy.

John
4045.3ACOSTA::MIANOJohn - NY Retail Banking Resource CntrTue Aug 28 1990 19:106
I also found out about another Copyist problem.  It seems that the
paranoids at Dr. T's have coded the thing so that blocks of code
have to have a bit mask xor before they can execute.  This seems to
have been done to prevent disassembly.  That works fine and dandy in
a 68000 but as soon as you go to machines with instruction caches you
get a royal Edward the II special.
4045.4works on 68020SAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterTue Aug 28 1990 19:262
    It seems to work fine on my A2620-equipped Amiga 2000.
        John Sauter
4045.5How much better is it than PROFESSIONAL?GOBAMA::WILSONTLTony, the HOSS TRUMPETFri Aug 31 1990 18:014
    To change the subject only slightly...I'm considering upgrading to that
    package.  How's the PostScript output?  My mechanism would be to
    produce the files and print them on an LPS20.
    
4045.6looks fine; Sonata uploading problemsSAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterFri Aug 31 1990 20:2411
    I think the PostScript output looks great.  It uses Adobe's Sonata(tm)
    font, which is included.  You will have to modify the font file a bit,
    because of using it on a shared printer (you can't install the font
    permanently, which is the default) but a minor bit of PostScript
    munging should get you there.  Note that the font file is difficult
    to upload because it uses bare <CR> characters to delimit lines.
    This works fine when sent to a printer, but isn't so good when
    trying to upload a text file.  Just convert the <CR>s to <LF>s
    with a simple program (and while you're at it, break up the very long
    lines) and it should upload with no problems.
        John Sauter