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further more it doesn't always work

<techy>
bits on floppies are stored by aligning magnetic fields, either up (say) for
1, or down (say) for 0.
copy protection works by aligning the magnetic fields left or right, or
making them non aligned. Therefore each time you read the data, you get
randomly either 1 or 0.
A copy will not have this same property, therefore the program can detect
the key.
The problem comes in that some modern floppy drives are sensitive enough to
always give the same answer when fed these aligned fields. E.G the "A:
Drive" (combined floppy, ZIP style drive) has this problem.
In addition, non aligned fields are even more susceptible to corruption than
aligned fields.
</techy>
This is why they've gone out of fashion.

And my laptop won't let me use a floppy at the same time as a CDROM. :-)

MyRedDice

Dark Half wrote:

> DLaflin wrote:
> > Regardless, no company has a right to access personal info you store
> > on your personal computer, plus there ARE ways to get around the
> > CD-R.. for one a very good baseball Sim requires one either insert
> > a KEY disk you get with game..with option to transfer once the copy
> > prot to the HD, or just use key disk always.
> >
> > If your transfered CP is messed up, you then need use key disk each
> > time play.
> >
> > You cant copy the floppy either.
> >
> > The Copy Prot is a nusience, but my point is it is a non invasive
> > scheme, plus one could copy that CRrom..but without the KEY Disk
> > your copys useless.
>
> Actually, IMO, this copy-protection method is *horrible*... See, the key
> disk is on floppy, and uncopiable... Data on floppies is known to go
> corrupt... A lot faster than data on CDs... So, you'll have a good CD,
> but a corrupt key disk, thus making the CD useless...
>
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