Disk Copiers

[TGB1718]

After seeing the post from @glurk and his disk editing tool, I looked through my old stuff and found a couple of disk copiers I wrote.

They are written using MAC/65 and were made solely for use by me and a friend when we were developing games and the easiest way

to transfer data was to copy whole disks, there was nothing really suitable so I wrote these.

 

One copies Single/Enhanced density disks (1 or 2 passes), the other Double Density (2 pass), the DD one also has a high speed SIO patch installed.

I wrote the first one before I got a USD, then modified the code when I had a DD drive.

 

I have attached an ATR for each and a 3rd ATR that has the source code for anyone interested in having a look, sorry

but there are no comments in the code (back then I had a great memory and had no need for comments).

The coding is not very structured (again sorry for that), but I used to be able to imagine what I needed to do and

just write the code.

 

They only work on a 130XE as it uses the Banked memory in the 130XE to allow a 1 or 2 pass copy with a single density or DD drive.

 

BASIC needs to be disabled when running these, the copiers are self booting, no DOS.

 

When I gave this to my friend, I told him it was exclusively for us, some months later I was at my computer club and

one of the members offered me some new disk copy utilities he had acquired, bet you can guess what they were

 

SE130XE Copy.atr DD130XE Copy.atr Disk Copy Src.atr

[ascrnet]

Thank you very much for sharing the source code of your application, I was checking it and it doesn't look so messy. ?

[TGB1718]

Just got an Alphaload Disk with some utilities on it, "I've been ripped off by a Pirate"

 

This is my program, the guy just removed my name put his name in and managed to screw the screen formatting

I feel sort of violated ?

 

My Originals:-

 

 

The Pirated Versions:-

 

[Mclaneinc]

It's sad, same thing happened to me, back in the day I wrote a disk drive to disk drive copier, it was all done between the asem ed cart and Omnimon, it was very, very messy, no code notes, it was so poor I didn't even put a name to it. It truly just was a test to see if I could do it and as limited looking it was it did a single density copy. As I didn't have two drives I took it around to a mate to test it as he had 4 drives, I tried it, and it worked. I by accident left the did in the drive.

 

A few weeks later I picked up a bundle of disks from another mate and was a little annoyed to find my copier in them. I would not mind but it was so beta, hardly any on-screen text bar insert disk and hit start..No hint of what it did...

 

A total exercise for me, but pirated?????  Was there no limits to the quality of the crap they pirated....Embarrassing if nothing else..

 

Your program was at least good looking and did a lot more, shame someone tried to steal your work...