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- THE HAPPY KILLER
- BLITZ COPIER
-
- ////////////////
- / BLITZ v1.50 /
- ////////////////
-
- Are you ready for a $22.00 copier that will copy as good, or in most
- cases better, than a $150.00 cart? Yes?? Well then, Blitz is
- for you. Blitz is a revolutionary new back-up system for the Atari ST
- computer. Using a special cable (that you can make yourself) and
- software included in this arc, it will back up your software at a speed
- and power unheard of before.
-
- If you know a little about wiring and how to solder, that's the most
- that this copier will cost you. If you have to have someone make one up
- for you, it might cost you $30-40 (although some people have been known
- to pay up to $50 for a pre-made cable).
-
- That's right, all that is needed is a cable (and two drives). No
- internal wiring to be done in the computer. No special, over-priced
- cartridges. In a nutshell, all you do is cut an Atari drive cable in two
- and then attach a third plug that goes into your printer port. What this
- cable does, is copy from drive one, out through the printer port to drive
- 2. (Copying is ALWAYS from drive 1 to drive 2.)
-
- It reads from drive 1 and writes to drive 2 at the same time! So in the
- time it takes ACopy, ProCopy, or Happy to just read a disk into memory,
- this program has read AND written out the same disk in one pass. And it
- does not care if the disk is protected or not, it copies just as fast
- either way (this way you can make a legal backup copy of all your
- protected software). Plus, it seems to copy a lot of stuff that ACopy,
- ProCopy AND Happy won't copy!!!
-
- BLITZ operates the disk drives at a very low level. When backing up disks
- it should go through an entire disk without a pause. If it does pause
- (for more than a second or so) then it may have got out of
- synchronization. In this case, press ESCAPE to abort the copy and start
- it going again. So the best thing to do is watch it copy and count down
- the tracks. If it stops for even a second, then you can forget it and
- start again, as it has gotten out of sync and the copy will not work.
- But for a program as fast and as cheap as this, you can afford to take
- the time to count down the tracks.
-
- One other thing. There are very few programs that this program won't
- copy IF you're drives are in alignment and up to proper speed. If the
- copy that you make does not work properly, try changing your drives
- around (if possible) or try it on someone else's computer and drives.
-
- BLITZ comes as a program or a desk accessory. To run it as a program you
- will need "BLITZ.PRG" and "BLITZ.RSC" in your working folder. To run it
- as an accessory, you will need "BLITZ.ACC" and "BLITZ.RSC" on the root
- directory of your boot-up disk.
-
- If you are unsure as to whether a disk is single sided or double sided
- copy it double sided (the main difference will be that it will take
- longer).
-
- BLITZ will quite happily appear to write to a write protected disk. Do
- not worry here - If a disk is write protected then there is NO WAY that
- BLITZ can write to it (unless your disk drive is faulty). However, you
- must be careful that when you DO want to write to a disk that the disk is
- not write protected - because BLITZ will not notice.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: You will not be able to use your external drive in a
- normal way with the BLITZ lead plugged in.
-
-
-
- MAKING YOUR OWN BLITZ CABLE
-
- (See BLITZ.PC3 or BLITZ.IMG for cable layout!)
-
-
-
- Here's all you'll need........
-
- 1 Atari drive cable. Cost = about $20 for a six foot one.
- 1 24-pin printer plug (male). Cost = $1.00
- 1 Printer plug hood. Cost = $1.00
-
- ....That's it! Just print out the BLITZ.PC3 or BLITZ.IMG file and you'll
- see how to hook up the printer plug into the drive cables.
-
- I suggest that you obtain an Atari drive cable and cut into two parts to
- obtain plugs one and two.
-
- Plug 3 is a 25-pin male D connector, available at any Radio Shack Store.
-
- On machines with one internal drive and one external drive, plug P1 into
- the computer drive-out port. Plug P2 into the 2nd drive's drive-in port
- and plug P3 into the computer printer port.
-
- On machines with two external drives, connect drive one in the normal
- manner. Plug P1 into the drive 1's drive-out port. Plug P2 into drive
- 2's drive-in port and P3 into the computer printer port.
-
- You might consider which setup you have before you cut the cable.
-
- With this setup, the computer will not recognize drive 2 unless the BLITZ
- software is running. So if you leave your machine setup with the BLITZ
- cables connected, you will lose the use of drive 2 for everything but
- copying.
-
- Switch boxes can be setup to allow you to leave the setup intact.
-
- I'm sorry but I can't tell you the color code on the Atari cables as
- every one is different.
-
- /////////////////
- / B_TURBO v1.9 /
- /////////////////
-
- You will by now have seen that B_TURBO has a New Menu, you can now set the
- tracks for Blitz to start its coping and there has been added the AUTO that
- lets Blits read for its self what type of Disk it is going to copy.
-
-
- //////////////
- / BUG REPORT /
- //////////////
-
- There seems to be a Bug in the AUTO part of B_TURBO v1.9, that is some times
- when you run it, it does not Read the Disk right, its no Big thing all you
- have to do is Just ReBoot and it will work Okay!
-
- //////////////////
- / T_BLITZ v2.5 /
- //////////////////
-
- The Bug in v1.9 has been Fixed in this New Version of T_BLITZ. This version
- is by Plexus Systems Limited and is (c) by same, there are a lot of different
- versions of BLITZ in the ST market as of this Date, but they all seem to be
- on the same line as to how they work, copying at a low level through the
- Printer Port. Even though this New Version has the same byte size as v1.9
- it has been Fixed. So don't let the Size of the Program fool you.
-
- If any one finds any other Bug please let us know!
-
-
- /////////////
- / Amendment /
- /////////////
-
- This is an Amendment for Turbo Blitz v2.5, if your File Date is not 05-10-90
- or higher then your copy is not the one with the AUTO Bug Fixed. Sorry
- but when you have as many files as we do to Upload one can grab the wrong
- file.
-
- The RSC file Dated 5-10-90 or higher has been redone also,
-
- 1.) If you use T_BLITZ v2.5 on a Atari SC1224 you will find that it now
- has Color.
-
- 2.) If you use T_BLITZ v2.5 on a Atari SM124 you will also see a New Dialog
- Screen.
-
- ^
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