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The X-copy scandal
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From one of our readers we received a copy of X-copy III. Normally we give
no attention to illegal copies but this time there was something different.
X-copy III is spread by the programmer to the public to get even with
Cachet Software in Germany. Again an example of a programmer who has
problems with his software company. We at Newsflash and UGA have been
cheated many times the last year so we know how it feels to be ripped
off. It seems that many cheaters are active in the software business
making empty promises and ripping off artists. Examples enough, just
see what happened with Battle Squadron of Innerprise in Europe or
how the music for Beverly Hills Cop was stolen by Tynesoft from a
Jungle Command demo (composed by Ron Klaren who did also the music for
the Plague and Battle Squadron). Tynesoft promised to pay the composer
but till now this has not happened !! Also Kingsoft Germany has a bad
name among programmers so be warned and be carefull.
But back to X-copy III, the new features:
Improvements in XcopyIII V1.0
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Frezze Mouse .
*------------*
By pressing Right mousebutton(again to release it) , you can frezze the
mouse pointer, which result in no steering of mouse back to (START)
if you by mistake touches the mouse while copying .
ZAPdisk+
*------*
With ZAPdisk+ you can delete diskinformation, its ten times faster than
Erasedisk.
Twincopy
Twincopy+
*-------*
Cachet's other great product ,Cyclone ,is put in XcopyIII, its called
Twincopy. To use these two options you have to get a Cyclone HARDWARE
addon. This copy utility is much better if you have to make a copy of
originals. I think Syncro express is a product which is much to
expensive and have a higher error percentage than Cyclone(Twincopy).
Twincopy copies disks a little bit faster than DOSCOPY,DOSCOPY+.
Use it wisely.
XC config
*-------*
A earlier version of xcopy V2.1(by Cachet) had a new option, the Setup
option. This option could be executed from the CLI.
In my version you can choose this setup option from the menu, when you
have choosen XC config, and pressed the start gadget, it saves a config
in your S: dir when you exit XcopyIII. It loads this config file next
time you start XcopyIII. If you decide not to save a config file, just
press start again and it will be canceled.
INIT DF0-3
*--------*
This is a preview of a new function i think is good. If you forgot to turn
of some of your drives, you can use this function to register them.
Put a disk in the drives you want to use, including the one turned on,
then press start, and the program will register the drives. Remember to
turn them on before pressing (start).(the on/off switch, hehe!)
Its a little bit slow , but works fine, maybe in a later version i'll fix
the processing speed.
Then the programmer left a little note to Cachet Software:
Note to Cachet.
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As you properly can see this version is protected, and i think you know
why. When I found out that you released my program (half of it) without
speaking with me first, your chances for receiving this to sell offici-
ally is near ZERO. It wasn't fair to release my version of xcopy with
no sign of my name anywhere .
I have released this version, unofficially, but it is properbly better
this way, you get your name out and I get some publicity, you get some
more out of it, the bad ,no money for it ,the good , some publicity.
You are welcome to use my ideas for your version of xcopy but this time
you must work for it. Next time, pay your programmers and they will
cooperate with you. If you can't manage that, its too bad. Do call, if
you have some replies, sorry i had to do this way but your phone isn't
working or maybe your company is closed ?
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For sofar X-copy III, perhaps more news and comments from Cachet next issue.