Clone Newsletter #2

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Here is the second 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 These have never been archived online before, so I am happy to be able to share them with you.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: Newsletter Grows 50% – it’s now 12 pages
Page Two: What’s New from Micro-Ware
Page Three/Four/Five: Letters to the Editor
Page Six: Solutions – Fort Apocalypse, Neutral Zone, David’s Midnight Magic
Page Seven: Dongles!
Page Eight: You can’t tell a drive by it’s color
Page Nine: Trouble Spots, Bugs/Fixes
Page Ten: How to Copy Protect your own Disk – Part 2
Page Eleven: Letters continued – Survivor, Easy Spell, Beach-Head, Blade of Blackpoole
Page Twelve: JOT-A-WORD ad

PDF of Issue #2 Clone Newsletter-02b

Clone Newsletter-02-1

 

Clone Newsletter #1

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The Clone Newsletters where made by Micro-W, which was the maker of the Clone Machine copy software. As far as I could find these where not archived online anyplace, so I worked with the seller to get scans so we can preserve them for the Commodore community. I do not think that these are numbered, so I will post them in the order I got them. This one was named as #1 with a postal date of June 29, 1984 and is eight pages.
There are articles and LOTS of advertisements for the Clone Machine.

Page one: Sales Beyond Belief
Page Two: Impressions of the 1541 Disk DrivePage Three: Unguard released / Bugs
Page Four: Solutions – these are copy plans on new software
Page Five/Six: Technical Notebook – How to  Copy Protect your own disk
Page Seven: Letters to the Editor
Page Eight: AD for Jot-A-Word

PDF of Issue #1 Clone Newsletter-01b

Clone Newsletter-01b-1

Super Tracker

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Super Tracker by Utilities Unlimited. This ad was from a 1989 magazine and I had completely forgotten about this device until someone (Craig E.) sent me some photos of the one he has in his collection. The Super Tracker could display the current track while loading. Also had an 8/9 device switch, Write Protect over ride, reset buttons and density levels!! How cool is this. This was not plug and play. The ad mentions some minor soldering and Craig said that he also modified it further to use a rs232 connector.

ALSO if you look closely at the internal photos you will notice a Supercard installed.

OK check out this photos:

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Kracker Jax GEOS Busters

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Kracker Jax GEOS BUSTERS v3.0

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This program can make back ups of GEOS v1.0, GEOS v1.2 and GEOS v1.3. Also the GEOS Deskpak, Writers Workshop, Geofile, Geodex, Geocalc, Geopublish, GeoSpell, GEOS 128 and Geowrite 128.

 

 

The other important thing with this disk is that is MUST be loaded/ran from inside GEOS. This will not boot otherwise.

 

Burst Nibbler Parameter Disk

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Burst-Nib-ParaI just got the Burst Nibbler Parameter Disk. The boot menu calls it ‘The Burst Nibbler Enhancement Disk v1.0″. The has a selection for many V-Max games and something called Enhanced Copier v1.0, This option is used to copy disk protected by Rapidlock versions one to six.

The Bummer is that option #7 doesn’t work and there is not other parameters on the disk. (Other than the 18 V-Max ones)

the Burst Nibbler Collection: Contains version 1.6,1.7 and 1.8 (does not run in emulator)

DOWNLOAD HERE:  burst_nibbler_collection

Burst-Nibbler-paraBurst-Nibbler-para2

Revolution-V

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Revolution-V is a new V-Max copier made by Lord Crass.
All I can say is that if this was released in 80’s it would’ve of been HUGE!

rev-2This image is from a Beta version that Lord Crass has sent to me.

Also you do not have to lower your drive speed for this to work. Normally to write a V-Max copy you slow the drive down to 297.5 rpm from the normal 300 rpm.

I asked Lord Crass if he could make a version to use added RAM. Before I knew it, he sent me a new version

rev-3Here is a screen shot from the REU version. I tested it with my Super Clone 1750 cartridge (512k RAM). This version was great, it’s FAST and no disk swapping!!

 

 

 

rev-1Here is the Analyses screen to determine the V-max version. This screen shot is of a Three Stooges after the analysis.

 

 

 

 

REV-introALSO – Thanks for the shout out in the intro (Steverd).

Here is the best part, you can download this from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=134573