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Apparently not. The fuzzy bits created on the master discs were extremely reliable (and by that I mean "unreliable"): every time you read the track, you would g
by incepted 11y ago
Apparently not. The fuzzy bits created on the master discs were extremely reliable (and by that I mean "unreliable"): every time you read the track, you would get different values. Remember that a track contains a lot of bytes. The copy protection was only checking one fuzzy bit to declare the disk genuine. And these fuzzy bits were by design impossible to create on regular disk drives (thankfully!).
The hardware required to create these tracks was extremely expensive and sometimes even out of stock, leaving hackers no other solution than to actually remove the protection if they wanted to produce a crack.
Years later, a disk copier appeared that was able to preserve these fuzzy bits but it was way after there was any commercial interest left in the Dungeon Master titles.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> Years later, a disk copier appeared that was able to preserve these fuzzy bits but it was way after there was any commercial interest left in the Dungeon Master titles. I wonder what's the story behind that copier. Was its ability a side effect of the method they used? Or was there a legitimate commercial interest in preserving those fuzzy bits in copies? Or was actually built with pirates in mind?