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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Q: How do you USE A Syncro Express II?
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 00:41:29 GMT
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
- Message-ID: <1545.6583T797T1212@execpc.com>
- References: <8JAN199616062478@vms1.tamu.edu> <4cvifo$s68@guava.epix.net>
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- On 10-Jan-96 05:23:04, William Near <wnear@epix.net> wrote:
- >On 8 Jan 1996 16:06 CST, Tom D Tek 7BvO articulated:
- ><> I just inherited one of these little devices... it just looks like
- >a little
- ><> 23 pin gender exchanger with a switch on it... didn't get any
- >disks...
-
- >It should have also came with a circuit board that connects
- >to DF0: internally on the A2000. At least that's how my
- >Syncro Express III looks. A small ribbon cable leads from
- >the circuit board out to that "gender changer" that connects
- >to your external floppy port. The switch on the floppy port
- >adapter turns the Syncro hardware on and off.
-
- ><> Anyone know if I need any software to drive this thing? And exactly
- >HOW
- ><> does it work? Is it a disk copying accelorator or something?
-
- >It is a powerful hardware/software bit copier that requires
- >a disk of software in order to run.
-
- The Synchro Express is an "image" copier, which bypasses AmigaDOS
- completely to accomplish its magic. It can copy a lot of protected
- software, but it requires its own special software to work best.
-
- However, some versions of the XCopy software included an option for
- this type of device. Twincopy, or Expresscopy, or something like that.
- It will drive the device just fine, though it doesn't have all of the
- options of the software that originally came with it.
-
- <tsb>--
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