Sorry for not speaking French, but I hope my primitive English will suffice to communicate.
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Joined this forum by idea of Toinet. I have too many Apple2-related projects in the queue and too little time, but I still hope to finish some of them eventually. <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />
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My practical experience covers only ][+ and //e Bulgarian clones known as "Pravetz" and almost no peripherals due to regional peculiarities.
Welcome to that wonderful forum owned by JPL, master of the Logic State Sequencer (LSS) which may interest you a lot for your disk II (really)low-level project.
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I'll be delighted to discuss protection methods with you but, please note that JPL knows (a lot) more than me about them as he understands it as the LSS level, which I don't. I am a 6502 code reader <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />
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Jean-Pierre, the room on your site dedicated to the different protection methods should be translated <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />
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Merry Christmas,
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</span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>vladitx a Θcrit:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I have too many Apple2-related projects in the queue and too little time, but I still hope to finish some of them eventually. <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />
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We *here* are all in the same situation <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" border="0" />
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Some of the works in progress:
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4. making my emulator RA2 mimicking bare Apple ][/][+
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5. adding few peripheral cards
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6. expand to //e
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7. same emulation transferred to FPGA
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Each new step mostly requires some previous.
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Several days ago I also tried software decoding of NTSC signal, but still nowhere close to having results.
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@JPL+Deckard: I hope you join our protection-related email discussion with Toinet.
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@Deckard: that drive never arrived, but recently I got a hold of Hong Kong one, half-height. Still haven't time to try it.</span><span class="gensmall"></span></td>
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I second that, but what if this is impossible on the Apple2?
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</span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Deckard a Θcrit:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Disks with track number $23 (and directory on it).
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Programs which check dongles (e.g. few bytes of the eprom of a specific card, or a device connected to the joystick port, ...)
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Unformatted tracks.
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Duplicated track number in headers (but not the same datas).</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">
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Nice addition. Those disk techniques should be covered by the imaging/emulation.
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Was there any software sold with dongles?</span><span class="gensmall"></span></td>
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There is a standard table to convert nibbles to bytes, some change the table values => Indoor Sports </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">
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Same. But won't even a normal sector copier (like LockSmith) copy this?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">
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If your read routine doesn't have the same "nibbles to bytes table" than the original disk, your dsk will be full of bad bytes and will never boot...
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You have to extract the original table for deciphering correctly the original disk.
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Right, it's enough that the table covers one more nibble and it will render simple copy unusable.
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I'm going to refine the techniques + imaging/emulation possible problems soon and post into a dedicated thread.</span><span class="gensmall"></span></td>
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mainly professionnal softwares.
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1 of them: V43e (a program *written in pascal UCSD* which drives a knitting machine and uses the special 3.5" controler as a dongle - made by Eicon Research, a company from UK).</span><span class="gensmall"></span></td>
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I second that, but what if this is impossible on the Apple2?
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That's about the fastest sampling one can do on 6502 and it's slower than the required 4us/pulse.
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I've read yesterday in an old 'Creative Apple" book that at least 2 BASIC compilers (1 is the well-know SPEEDSTAR) used dongle.
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<td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Very interesting, thanks! Just out of curiosity, do you have idea what was inside the dongle? MCU or something simple?</span><span class="gensmall"></span></td>
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