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Re: [disklavier] Re: Disk Format for Disklavier

2002-10-25 by PianoBench@aol.com

Good evening, everyone.

In a message dated 10/24/02 7:33:57 PM, Carik writes:

<< What is the purpose of the blank boot sector?  After writing a good boot 
sector on your (presumably original) PianoSoft disk, could it still play in 
a Mark II DKV or older?  What did the file extensions for the songs look 
like?  What did you write for the "good" boot sector? >>

The purpose is to make the disk unbootable on a personal computer under 
normal circumstances. In otherwords, this is a copy-protection scheme.

Regards,
PianoBench

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