You are right, there is a a copy with a manual now! It was uploaded 4 months ago and it sure wasn't there all the previous times I've looked.
Unfortunately, the manual doesn't quite match my memories.
I recognize a lot of the text and layout so it is clearly something I have seen before, but the technical info isn't really there.
This manual is from May 1989. I read the manual a bit before that, perhaps in 1987, perhaps 1988.
So, does my memory play tricks on me or did they remove all that lovely tech info? All there's left in this version is Chapter 12 "Technical Terms" (which I recognize as something I have read a version of before).
I know I have read about using track reads to catch some of the copy protection tricks (like in the two MartyPC blog posts) and track writes (occasionally even track writes that are aborted at just the right time) to force the data on disk to be just the right kind of wrong.
I double checked that it wasn't in the Copy II PC manuals I could find: the V6 manual from 1990 and the Copy II PC Option Board manual.
peterfirefly|1 year ago
Unfortunately, the manual doesn't quite match my memories. I recognize a lot of the text and layout so it is clearly something I have seen before, but the technical info isn't really there.
This manual is from May 1989. I read the manual a bit before that, perhaps in 1987, perhaps 1988.
So, does my memory play tricks on me or did they remove all that lovely tech info? All there's left in this version is Chapter 12 "Technical Terms" (which I recognize as something I have read a version of before).
I know I have read about using track reads to catch some of the copy protection tricks (like in the two MartyPC blog posts) and track writes (occasionally even track writes that are aborted at just the right time) to force the data on disk to be just the right kind of wrong.
I double checked that it wasn't in the Copy II PC manuals I could find: the V6 manual from 1990 and the Copy II PC Option Board manual.