[CS-FSLUG] Microsoft CDs

[Fred A. Miller]

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Nathan T. wrote:
> I will go with your recommendation Fred, but I find it strange that
> Rise of Nations copied perfectly despite having a Microsoft logo on
> it, yet Age of Empires II beign a much older game won't.I have read on
> the internet that toothpaste can be used to polish scratches out of
> Cd's, turns out it really only creates a lot of smaller scratches :-p
>  
> Rather than try to polish the Cd's I think I will opt for copies, even
> after my toothpaste experiment I took a serious look at the Cd's and
> wondered how any of the scratches could be big enough to actually
> effect how the disks read. I noticed that both disks stop copying with
> the dd command exactly at 1.6 Mb, they don't even have scratches in
> the same place so I don't think this is a coincidence.
> 
> I could opt for getting new CDs from Microsoft, but if I payed for the
> game in the first place what right do they have to make it impossible
> to copy for personal reasons. IMO if they are behind this then I
> couldn't possibly pay them anything for replacement copies without
> going against my morals.

I understand. I WON'T give them any of my money......period! It gets
difficult at times to be able to determine if a disk is damaged or if
there's a totally unrelated issue. I do know that the "disk buffer" DOES
get out most scratches and allows a good "clean" disk with which to make
some archival copies.

Fred

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