+Larry Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 What is the difference between MyCopyr 1.x and 2.x? Where did these originally appear? And last, is it MyCopier or MyCopyr (I've seen it listed both ways). I seem to remember seeing it in one of the U.S. Atari magazines, but there have been quite a few that have similar names so I no longer remember. Maybe the one I saw was MyCopy (no "r"). Curious about the history of this. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) In the documentation (found on the disk) for 2.1 it says this: MyCopyR! 1.0 vs MyCopyR! 2.1 There have only been three major changes from 1.0. These are the addition of a directory option, the removal of the disable memory upgrade option (INVERSE KEY), and the removal of the MANUAL ENHANCED density function. Also, due to a bug in the HAPPY ROMs, all HAPPY drives are set for FAST-WRITES. This will eliminate the 3rd byte bug that caused problems with version 1.0. Several minor bugs that were version 1.0 were fixed in 2.1. The worst of these bugs prevented version 1.0 for working with a 400/800 or 1200XL computer. Also, you get this in the docs: MyCopyR! 2.1 by Glenn Smith PO Box 3209 Grand Jct., CO 81502 Edited November 14, 2020 by MrFish 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 (edited) As far as the history, this seems similar to CopyMate (by Mike Palmer), but adds the highspeed, etc. features. Maybe an updated clone of sorts. CopyMate had a lot of variations/versions. Edited November 14, 2020 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Afaik, MyCopyR 1.x originally came as a bootdisk, while MyCopyR 2.x came as a file. (But one could convert MyCopyR 1.x into a file with e.g. Supercopy by P. Jakubek and thats what I did at some point.) Since I do not use Happy drives, I never encountered that Happy bug; on the other hand I find the manual enhanced density function in 1.x quite useful. Both versions support ultraspeed with Happy, Speedy, USD, Hyper-XF and other ultraspeed capable floppy drives. Both can copy 90k, 130k, 180k and also support XRAM (press Control-B for a reboot option, then Start to execute it). Do not know anything about the history of MyCopyR, simply found both versions in the (german) HAPS library. One can also find them online e.g. at Pigwa in the Holmes collection (MycopyeR, MycopyR! 2.0 and MycopyR! 2.1). Looks like MyCopyR! is the correct name and I always typed it wrong as Mycopier... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Regarding Copymate, it looks like only the Copymate XE versions 3.7 and 3.8 do support enhanced density (130k). All other versions (up to version 4.4) do not support 130k it seems... and that's why I never use them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 Here is a good thread that I found: I've looked through some of these and Copymate 3.8 (which is really Copymate XE 3.8) offers quite a few options. If you just need "plain vanilla," then several others will do fine. US Copy used to be a big favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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