ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2017
Entry 20th September 2017: Post: 2
Trainers
This little piece of kit slots into the side expansion slot of
the Amiga 500 and allows users to trap within it the contents
of memory. This in turn allows the user to rip music, cheats,
graphics etc from games. The device also was capable of copying
games by bypassing the copy protection.
I am not sure I approve of the beast, though from the various
disks that have come into my possession I can see that such
devices were very popular. I have any number of the things though
in truth have never used one.
Training seems to be all the rage with the kit and there are pages
in the manual dedicated to it. Not sure if they are still used.
I have numerous devices that do the same and also break the copy
protect on the disks. You generally need the dongle or the
interface though and I do get asked if there is a way round that.
Not absolutely sure, but Datel didn't provide a copy system for
copying the hardware also.
What you do need to understand is the 'nibbler ' [ quote ]
The features of the Nibbler are not too difficult to understand. On
the left hand side of the screen there is a mode box. This is to toggle
between Amiga Dos disks and DEEP which is for other formats (i.e. Atari/MSDOS).
The start and end values are the track numbers to be copied, for
example if you are duplicating public domain disks with only the first
40 tracks used there is no point copying the higher tracks. The side
selector is for the upper, lower or both sides of the disk - of most
use if you are duplicating single sided Atari disks. The Sync option
should only be set to either the default value for Amiga disks or index
for MSDOS. Only use other values if you understand disc sync marks.
The 4 images of disks each represent a drive number (only appropriate
if they are present of course). Each disk is a colour representing what
action is to be taken on that drive. Blue is not acted upon, green defines
the source drive, brown defines a destination drive without verify and
purple represents a destination drive with verify. The start button begins
duplication (assuming both start and destination drives are selected),
so exit you must reboot the Amiga. Quit will cause a system crash.
Boxed Datel Mk II
Action Replay Mk II
Don't seem to have a Mk I
Quite a busy interface
Manual
Manual
Manual
Need your trainers
And advanced ones at that
Datel
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