Commodore REUs

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Steverd

What is this? REU stands for RAM Expansion Unit, get it? REU!! SO what does this have to do with this copy site? Well I was looking for a way to copy a disk without making 3-5 swaps from Source to Destination disk, without using two drives. Well the simple answer was to add more memory (add an REU).

The three main ones for, Commodore was the:

1700 with 128 kB
1750 with 512 kB
1764 with 256 kB

These need a more powerful power supply to work. There is also something called the “Super 1750 Clone” which is the size of a normal cartridge, plugs into the cartridge slot and needs to extra power. This is one I own and use. It’s that RED cartridge below.

There’s one more to talk about called: GeoRAM this was by Berkeley Software and was to tie in with their GEOS operating system for the Commodore 64.

cartridge_super_1750_clone_01

Ultimate Utility V6.5

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Steverd

Ultimate Utility V6.5 is a disk loaded with copier programs and utilities. There are 25 programs on the front and back of this disk. Some notable programs are the Arts backup, Trillium crackers, Activision fixer and much more!

Doctor T

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Steverd

Doctor T’s Incredible Copiers.

This is a disk of ten copy programs and utilities. These programs are all on one side of the disk. Who is “Doctor T”?

Dongle Protection

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Steverd

The oddly named protection device called a DONGLE was plugged into the Commodore’s tape port or the joystick ports. When the program would load it would check for this Dongle, if it was there the program would load, if not the program would not.

Here a list of Commodore software that I know used a Dongle as it’s form of copy protection.

10th Frame: used the dongle on the tape port
Coco
Coco 2
Insta-Calc (some version)
Leaderboard
Leaderboard World Class
Neutral Zone
Paper Clip’s dongle fits into the Joyport,

Code Wheel Copy Protection

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Steverd

This type of protection is not disk based, but something that came with a game that you had to make up items on the wheel and enter data into the game for it to start.
So you could usually copy the disk easily, but need this device to play.

The most famous example is the code wheel from the Secret of Monkey Island.

Some others include

Bard’s Tale III
Monkey Island 2
Neuromancer
Out of this World
Pool of Radiance
Secret of Monkey Island
Zany Golf

Super Parameters

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Steverd

Utilities Unlimited has many parameters. There are 5 disk in this seriesDisk #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5. Each had 100 parameters on it. Then there was also the Super Parameters 500 Pack. This has 500 different parameters not found on the 100 packs. SO does that mean that Utilities Unlimited released 1000 parameters?????