Date   : Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:15:47 +0100
From   : Graham <bbc@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro Games Copy Protection

At 03:00 30/04/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I never had much success hacking most games and putting them onto disk.
> Only those from Blue Ribbon, Bug Byte, some Acornsoft, few Superior,
>and programs that weren't games were easy.  I never yet found any
>decent software that could do this and get past the most common
>protection schemes, falsified file information, plus number of others.
>What do those disk utilities mentioned here do and how good are they?

Personally, I never used any of them, that might have something to do with
the fact that I was running a Opus Challenger drive which was based on the
1770, although pretty much all disc based protected games (with the
exception of Exile) worked flawlessly.