Indus GT and copy protections

[avanze]

My Atari 1050 reads Quasimodo perfectly, but the GT runs into a copy protection screen. It's the Synsoft release.

 

Any way around this? It's one of my favorite games too!!

[lemiel]

Never - v.1.2 firmware should help.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/261744-indusgt-looking-for-firmware-v12/

[Bikerbob]

Does the Quasimodo game use bad sector protection? Have you checked the Indus speed? if your up or down 10 rpm you might still read, but a sector based copy protection might not give the right feedback.

 

James

[avanze]

Unfortunately, I don't have the original operating Indus GT disks. So I can't change the speed setting on the drive.

[ijor]

I'm not very familiar with the Indus, and I don't remember the exact details of the protection on that release. But many protections are very picky and they won't run in any third party drive. A few titles are even 810 only, they break even on an Atari 1050. Possibly your only option for the Indus is to use a crack.

[Kyle22]

Unfortunately, I don't have the original operating Indus GT disks. So I can't change the speed setting on the drive.

 

Why do you need the original disks to adjust RPM? Do you have any other RPM test tools? You can try SmartDOS. It has a speed test built in.

 

Link: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-smartdos_17582.html

[tep392]

Anyone know why Atari wasn't closing the loop on motor speed on their 3rd gen floppy drives? I have HO trains that use back emf to do closed loop speed control.