Super Snapshot V4

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Steverd

I still own my original Super Snapshot V4, I probably bought in in 1988 or 89. But besides being an awesome snapshot cartridge it came with a few disk.

1. The Snapshot V4 disk
2. Snapshot Parameters disk
3. Snapshot Slide show disk

Lets look at them one at a time.

First disk below is the v4.0 disk it contains a list of games and tells you how to copy them. If a ‘Custom Copier’ is needed then you need Disk #2 the parameter disk. Both disk #1 & #2 also contain programs called Turbo 25 converter and Turbo 25 Utilities.

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Rocket Ranger Codewheel

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Steverd

I couldn’t find a scan of the actual USA release of the Rocket Ranger Codewheel or as Cinemaware called it the Secret Decoder Wheel. SO I sacrificed my personal one to make one to share. There is a UK version, BUT the numbers are much different than the USA release.

There are also a print out that is a couple of pages long from Project 64: Rocket Ranger

Then there is also this Commodore 64 program that had the codes, BUT wouldn’t you need TWO commodore 64s running to us this one? One for the codes & one for the game:

BUT how about the original USA codewheel?

It was actually pretty hard to copy back in the day, here look at the codes/numbers is this scan. You do NOT want the red numbers you needed the Cyan numbers UNDER the red number. The red film on the top part of the code wheel would make the red numbers vanish, which is easier to do in Photoshop. Below are my scan you can print out and use for the US release. The codes wheels, top and bottom both measure 6-1/2 inches in diameter.

Here are my scan in a ZIP file: RocketRanger-USA

Clone Newsletter #6

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Steverd

Here is the SIXTH issue of the Clone Newsletter. These have never been archived online before, so I am happy to be able to share them with you.
This issue was on RED paper and very hard to read, so I adjusted it so hopefully people can read it now. There is 12 pages in this issue.

Page One: Music from Micro-W, Mister Lister and the Font Factory
Page Two: Bugs/Fixes – Problems with Error #21
Page Three to Six: How to design an auto-start program boot
Page Seven to Nine: The Disk Examiner (program code)
Page Ten: Solutions: Trivia Fever, Beach-Head, Ghostbusters, Neutral Zone, Night Mission Pinball
Page Eleven: Letters to the Editor, Dongles, Musicalc
Page Twelve: Micro-W ads

PDF of Issue #6: Clone Newsletter-06b

Clone Newsletter #5

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Steverd

Here is the Fifth issue of the Clone Newsletter. These have never been archived online before, so I am happy to be able to share them with you. This is not much of an issue, but was still labelled as #5. It’s seven pages with two of them blank.

The first few pages talk about the new TOUGH NUTS Utility program.
Used to copy those programs that used track 36, or had extra sectors on a track.
This program can only work on one track at a time.
Option #1 Non-Standard Sectors – you can squeeze in extra sectors in a track and change the density.
Option #2 Singular Sync – Finds the sync mark and then copies the next 256 bytes, also used to create error #29 anywhere on the disk. Plus can create Off-Bytes.

ALSO in this issue is how to Backup Raid Over Moscow, Dallas and Zaxxon
Finally how to copy Slamball, Sentinel and Wizard.

PDF of Issue #5: Clone Newsletter-05b

Tough Nuts Screen shot

Clone Newsletter #4

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Steverd

Here is the fourth issue of the Clone Newsletter. Does anyone have a working copy of the version The Clone Machine with the Tough Nut Utility?
These have never been archived online before, so I am happy to be able to share them with you.

Page One: What’s happening to out Clone Machine?
Page Two: New Additions: Tough-Nuts Utitily (TNU) & Four Minute Back up (FMB)
Page Three: Tough Nuts Utility
Page Four: More Dongle Solutions
Page Five: Build a Dongle
Page Six: Neutral Zone dongle crack,
Page Seven: 1541 Workshop – the Job Que
Page Eight: 1541 Workshop continued
Page Nine: Solutions for Raid over Moscow
Page Ten: Letters of the Editor – Dallas Quest, Juno, Zaxxon
Page Eleven: Slamball, Sentinel, Wizard
Page Twelve: Micro-W ads

PDF of Issue #4 Clone Newsletter-04b

Clone Newsletter #3

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Steverd

Here is the third issue of the Clone Newsletter. These have never been archived online before, so I am happy to be able to share them with you.

Page One: Superclone Finally Released, Unguard Unguarded!
Page Two: Unprotect Unguard
Page Three: Fort Apocalypse, Mirage: Database Manager
Page Four: 1541 Workshop
Page Five: Summer Games, Flight Simulator II
Page Six: Commodore LOGO
Page Seven: Letters to the Editor, Lode Runner, Shamus, Necromancer
Page Eight: Sam, Pharaoh’s Curse, Choplifter, Zepplin, Solo Flight, Flight Sim II
Page Nine: WordPro, Spellright, PractiCalc
Page Ten: Printer Bug, SAM, Choplifter, Cardco Printer Utilities, Ultima & MORE..
Page Eleven: In Search of Most Amazing Thing, Mask of the Sun
Page Twelve: Screen Dumper 64 ad

PDF of Issue #3 Clone Newsletter-03b

C64 Copy Protection

Documenting the History of the Commodore 64 protection scene