> > Our ability to currently run a properly dumped protected original is sketchy at the > > moment. > > I seem to remember reading that there was at least one manufacturer that had copy > protection that relied on physically damaged media. I think the disks had holes > punched through certain spots (tracks?) using a laser. The protection involved having > the software try to read from that damaged spot while loading. If the read was > successful, then the disk was an illegal copy. > > I'm not sure if there's a way to "properly dump" something with deliberately damaged > media.
The (unreleased?) game "zoid" (by one of the futurama writers, and from this zoidberg was named!) for apple2 is like this, uses a pinhole in the disk media.
"When life gives you zombies... *CHA-CHIK!* ...you make zombie-ade!"