| some of the games I have ask me to do the same, inserting the second
diskette and hit return. I copied them to harddisk into the same folder
and when they ask me I just hit Return! With some of the games this
helps, they just want to make sure the data of the second floppy now
is accessable for the computer. For sure it works not for all of the
games.
Bernd
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| If you have a double sided drive, I would suggest you put the games
on a floppy. It is not a good idea to run software not intended
for a HD on one, you can't be sure they don't use sector addressing
or anything unusal in their stuff. This will only work for unprotected
stuff. If the game is protected you would need to remove the
protection by hand.
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| re .-1
Doing it by hand is tricky, you need to disassemble it, and trace
through it until you find the sections that do the protection.
Some are easy, some are hard. I taught myself 68000 by looking
at the code others used and also fixed some games in the process.
Most games I've seen have only one section of protection, so once
you fix that you are home free. But you must give be careful what
you do with the now unprotected version. Some programs use direct
sector addressing, so you must watch where you put the program now,
or may bite you when it writes the highscores. I always hated the
games that make you disk head bounce by reading bad sectors, so
I have fun while making my backup copy and remove the protection
while I'm at it. It makes the game load faster also.
Jim Patterson
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