Subj : Re: Musicalc 1983 To : All From : Thierry64 Date : Fri Mar 22 2019 06:15 pm On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:33:44 -0800 (PST), Terry Raymond wrote: Hi there ! , its posible to share the images , im test it in real hardware and real floppy 1541 I and II , upload to mediafire? thanks ! best regards Thierry >Hi all, > >I received tons of .D64 images of older C64 midi Software. >Right now Im trying out Musicalc written by Waveform in 1983. > >I tried booting from the image no go it loads about halfway and just stops >and I thought that Musicalc may be copy protected because some copy protection checks and if a copy will probably stop, etc. > > I checked Fast Hackem and Maverick parameters and they don't even list anything under Musicalc, nothing. (parms). > >Would anyone know anything about Waveform protection or a way to try editing disk sectors etc? > > Again I don't have the original of this its just a .d64 image, and BTW >I use CBM Command to write the disk image back to a real 1541 formatted disk. > >I do have the Maverick V5.4 with a good disk editor if anybody knows how to edit Waveform protection (For my own backups only). :D > >Musicalc has a timer that takes around 2 minutes to load with this .d64 image it only gets as far as 1min 40 seconds and it just stops completely. >I recognize this as being protected because some protection if it detects the disk is a copy then it will do this and stops like a mule. > >Would a disk scan help anybody to determine what is going on? > >When it comes though to disk editors I dunno Im willing to try though, of course I have the original .d64 and can make another floppy of this, or just use a copy of course if I goof it up, etc. > >Terry Raymond --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .