Claims a nice 99.9% Effective! 3 Minutes Copy, Copies Bit by Bit.
Programmed in 100% machine language, writes errors, more.
Sounds great, but I never used this program and can not find a copy.
The credits show three people including Jim Drew!
The other two are Steve Bern and Darryl Millard.
My copy of the program freezes at the image below!
Fast Hack’em by Mike J. Henry – From the Programmer of Di-SECTOR
I would say this program and Maverick where the two best software only copy programs out for the C64. This software had many versions/updates. I have seen versions from 1.1 to 9.5a. Famous for being able to copy many of the hard programs. Included a very good “nibbler” program that used Parameters to tell the nibbler how to copy or remove protection from certain titles.
The Version 4.5A menu looks the SAME as version 3.2A
DOWNLOAD the last version here: Fast-Hackem-v9.5
Came out around 1989. This contained 250 parameters to ‘fix’ copies to work.
In another word,to remove the copy protection checks. This ad also contained the Original Parameter Cross-Reference guide for $19.95. This is an amazing list of games and what copies them. Here’s a link to the PDF of them. Very interesting reading!
It doesn’t say it in this ad, but this was a Kracker Jax product.
States that it is able to back-up the toughest protected tites on the market (1988). There are also a few parameters in the program, but not many. Here is a screen shot from a .D64 file I found. Also see: https://www.c64copyprotection.com/kracker-jax-elite-v2
The ZoomFloppy will allow you to copy Commdore files from your PC to your 1541 or your 1541 to your PC through a USB port. You can take a .D64 file to your Commodore disk, Or you can copy your Commodore Disk to a .D64 format to your PC. Plus tons more things.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfHfI0_L5c
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?
