Its all very clever. Till it doesn't work. A long time ago, we got EA's "seven cities of gold" from my parents for apple. My brothers and I were all excited

Its all very clever. Till it doesn't work. A long time ago, we got EA's "seven cities of gold" from my parents for apple. My brothers and I were all excited but it would start to load then the drive would make a strange sound and it didn't work. We exchanged at the local software store, the next one did the same thing.. We tried on a friends apple //c and it worked there. Our //e drives must have been slightly out of spec. It was bitter disappointment. But a valuable lesson. They're now imaging floppies into new formats so the copy protected disk can still run in emulation: Things like the "Woz" format https://applesaucefdc.com/woz/reference1/ https://applesaucefdc.com/woz/reference1/