10/11/2023 0 Comments Cracker cpy bus simulator 18![]() ![]() Years later I learned more about copy-protection, and my experiments with Floppy Emu have also provided insights into floppy-specific copy protection methods. How could it be possible for a floppy to be readable when running a program, but not readable when copying the program? It didn’t seem to make sense. Copying the disk required reading that same data, then writing it back to another disk. Running a game or other piece of software required reading the data from the disk. As a 10-year-old nerd, this left me confused. ![]() This meant floppy disks could be used to run software, but the software couldn’t be copied to other floppy disks. Growing up during the heyday of Apple II computers, I learned about something mysterious called copy-protection.
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