On Jul 10, 1:37=A0am, "Michael J. Mahon"  wrote:
> magnusfalkirk wrote:
> > On Jul 7, 5:42 pm, magnusfalkirk  wrote:
> >> Greetings,
>
> >> Just a question out of curiosity. Can I copy one of the Flight
> >> Simulator II Scenery Disks using the parameters for Flight Simulator
> >> II on Copy II+? I ask this as I recently won a copy of FS2 on eBay
> >> that came with a copy of Scenery Disk 1. I'd like to backup the
> >> Scenery Disk, and if possible make it available by uploading to Asimov
> >> or some other Apple II software repository, but I don't know if the
> >> FS2 parameters on Copy II+ will work.
>
> >> Any ideas?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dean
>
> > Well I've tried using Copy II+ v9.1 to copy the scenery disk, both
> > using the Flight Simulator II parameters and just a straight bit copy
> > and it fails to copy it. So I guess I'll give Locksmith 6 a try
> > tomorrow and see what happens there. As it stands I have a usable copy
> > of Scenery Disk 1 but no way to back it up.
>
> Sounds like time to find and disassemble the scenery disk read
> routine... =A0;-)
>
> -michael
>
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Michael,

If I had a clue what I was doing I might give that a try but I never
was a hacker :-) I did give Locksmith v6 a try and it partly
succeeded. I was able to boot it to the screen where it says "Sublogic
Scenery Disk This is not a bootable disk". So I booted FS2, went to
the editor, entered the coordinates and altitude for the airport I
wanted to fly out of (which just so happens is the airport in western
Oklahoma that I currently work at), put in the copy of the scenery
disk and hit escape. That was when I discovered Locksmith had only
partially succeeded because FS2 crashed.

Maybe I'll try Locksmith again, or Copy II+, and try different ways of
copying the disk. You wouldn't happen to know if Computist/Hardcore
Computist ever did an article on deprotecting FS2 or it's scenery
disks? I've downloaded all the copies of both of those and burnedthem
to CD, maybe I'll have to look through them and see if I can find
anything.

Dean
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