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From: singer
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1987 13:57

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From leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) Wed Mar 11 12:24:16 1987
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Drives, copy protection, BITNET

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> 
>  I have trouble believing that any copy protection method today relies
>on drive speed for it's protection to work--I think that in VIP's case they
>use a bad sector out on track 81 or 82, which is a definite no-no.  3.5"
>drives are spec'd to go to track 80, and that's it...
>
>--alex @ Atari
>
>BIX:alexl.            GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS      AtariCorp: 408-745-2006
>

Alex, 

   I know you havent been at Atari long, but please go read the
original (1985) HHG.  The one that came with my developement system
(June 1985) in a section about the disk drives, SUGGESTS that you
use (I think the actual word is format) a few EXTRA tracks beyond
track 79.  

I don't think you can blame (flame?) VIP for using track 81 when Atari
specifically suggested doing so for copy protection.


Matt Singer
Commnet Systems

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