Final Cartridge was a Fast loader and a Freeze cartridge plus tons more.
Also included a built in Reset Button. A few other features included: screen dump, printing, 24K extra RAM, BASIC 4.0 commands, Toolkit, Machine Language monitor.
There was also a Final Cartridge II, but I have not seen any ads for it.
Duplikator
DUPLIKATOR is the fastest, most efficient and easiest to use disk copying system ever conceived! (from their ad)
Datel’s DUPLICATOR is amazing, it has two components a main board with 256K RAM which plugs into the Commodore 64’s cartridge port and a parallel cable with connects between the Commodore 64’s User Port and the 6522 VIA chip inside your Commodore 1541 disk drive. No soldering is usually required.
DUPLIKATOR’S Key Features –
– Copies whole disk in one pass – only one drive required!
– Make Backup Copies in eight seconds!
– DUPLIKATOR is the fastest, most efficient and easiest to use disk copying system ever conceived!
– Comes complete with 256K on board ram and it’s own operating system – no software to load!
– Makes multiple copies from one master!
– Full disk verification during back-up process!
– Copies standard software as well as errors 21-29 and up to 40 tracks!
– Full disk error check in 8 seconds!
– A must for clubs, user groups etc. How else can you copy over 250 disks an hour for less than £100?
Deep Scan Burst Nibbler
This was another software/hardware system.
It used a parallel cable to connect your 1541 to your C-64.
Using this method the software would copy the disk as raw data
and did not need to decode it. Resulting in a “perfect” copy.
Cartridge Backer v2.0 (1986)
I wish I had a photo of this since it claims to copy disk and cartridges.
Seems to also be an update to Cartridge Cracker.
It did use software and an expansion board.
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Capture was of course a Capture cartridge by Jason Ranheim. Like other capture cartridges, when you press a button it will save the memory contents to disk. Which you can boot again later. This was a great way to by … Continue reading
The Action Replay Cartridge was amazing utility cartridge at the time.
So many features in one package: a Fast load, reset button, Code monitor, Sprite monitor, Screen dump, Program compactor or fit more games on one disk and more. But the reason it is here is because of the “Memory Snap Shot” feature. This would copy what ever program was running in memory and save it to disk.
This was awesome for the removing copy protection from so many programs. Just load the game from the original disk. This will pass all start up copy protection, hit your snap shot button on the title screen, save it and like magic you now have a copy protection free program. This could later be defeated by have multiple or delays copy protection checks.
LINK to my VIDEO of me using the Action Reply
https://www.c64copyprotection.com/action-replay-to-by-pass-protection/
