The massive brown box that I lugged onto the desktop
The contents of the big box
I have these things all over the place here
Useful obviously having the disk
Guess I should make a copy
All seems pretty straightforward
Hmm left for normal.. Right for Syncro
I see !!
I guess you now know why I needed
the Amiga 500 and the monitor
Seems a suitable candidate
Software at the ready
That worked
Don't tell anyone I just did that
Nothing to do with me.. You ain't seen me .. Right !!
And it works
Show me that again
I set the unit to synchro and plug
into the disk drive and connect a
DF1 external disk drive to the A500
You boot the system using the DATEL disk
Then remove the DATEL disk and insert
the disk you want to copy in the main
DF0: drive on the Amiga, the one with
the button I fixed.
Don't forget to remove the DATEL disk
and replace with the disk to be copied
Once the software is loaded you can copy
as many disks as you want without having
to put the DATEL disk back in the drive
The disk you want to copy to is placed
in the external drive
Press GO and watch the little boxes
turn blue... up to box 81 generally
Takes around 50 seconds
Red is bad. Very bad
I assume computer games makers got wise
to this and set about introducing
preventative measures.
I couldn't copy Turrican II
Didn't stop me playing the original game though
Other games were easy to copy. But then
I think I could always copy this game
The interface causes the disk drive to
make a very strange noise as it kicks
into gear. I have to say I was always
very suspiscious of these units. Not a
supporter of piracy. The interface makes
a disk image of the disk and then replicates
on the other drive.
No copyrighted disks were harmed in the
making of this blog. All copied disks
were formatted after testing the interface
