Comment by ck2
20 days ago
ha I had one of those "Copy II PC Option Board" and remember TRANSCOPY
it could pretty much copy anything
copying disks in 1980s was like radar vs radar-detector battle, always escalating
20 days ago
ha I had one of those "Copy II PC Option Board" and remember TRANSCOPY
it could pretty much copy anything
copying disks in 1980s was like radar vs radar-detector battle, always escalating
Central Point Software, the makers of Copy II PC, was one of our customers (we created back office software, order processing etc.).
It was a pretty healthy business, not just for the copy protection breaking but also the general tools software.
Funny story:
I was at their offices working on a project when they were getting ready to ship out the new version. Their warehouse was connected to the office building and they were producing all of the final copies and loading them on trucks to get sent to the distributors.
In the morning they gave the all clear for the first wave of trucks to leave, then about 4 hours later someone found a bug and they had to call all of the trucks back to the warehouse, unload, re-create new clean product etc.
They did this about 3 times before that version finally made it to the distributors.