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   Terry Raymond to All   
   Musicalc 1983   
   17 Feb 19 18:33:44   
   
   Hi all,   
      
   I received tons of .D64 images of older C64 midi Software.   
   Right now Im trying out Musicalc written by Waveform in 1983.   
      
   I tried booting from the image no go it loads about halfway and just stops   
   and I thought that Musicalc may be copy protected because some copy protection   
   checks and if a copy will probably stop, etc.   
      
    I checked Fast Hackem and Maverick parameters and they don't even list   
   anything under Musicalc, nothing. (parms).   
      
   Would anyone know anything about Waveform protection or a way to try editing   
   disk sectors etc?   
      
    Again I don't have the original of this its just a .d64 image, and BTW   
   I use CBM Command to write the disk image back to a real 1541 formatted disk.   
      
   I do have the Maverick V5.4 with a good disk editor if anybody knows how to   
   edit Waveform protection (For my own backups only). :D   
      
   Musicalc has a timer that takes around 2 minutes to load with this .d64 image   
   it only gets as far as 1min 40 seconds and it just stops completely.   
   I recognize this as being protected because some protection if it detects the   
   disk is a copy then it will do this and stops like a mule.   
      
   Would a disk scan help anybody to determine what is going on?   
      
   When it comes though to disk editors I dunno Im willing to try though, of   
   course I have the original .d64 and can make another floppy of this, or just   
   use a copy of course if I goof it up, etc.   
      
   Terry Raymond   
      
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