Hi smf,

> You can vary the speed enough to write Mac disks by playing around with an
> extenal clock on the genlock port. There was an adaptor back in the day which
> did this, it screwed up the display when it was writing though :-)

I think I remember it. Didn't it come as part of Emplant (mac emu/hw card) or something?

Anyway, I asked the tech guy about this and unfortunately, using that particular technique is not good enough to write "Real Amiga Protections" or RAP (tm) ;)

There are various reasons for this, I expect it is because you would not be able to get fine enough control, you need exact timing (really really exact, "cycle exact") and probably other reasons. If your interested, just drop us a mail, I am sure he would elaborate.

But it doesn't matter, we are committed to making a (do-it-yourself) mastering device that will write any protection, but it will take some time because we are busy on other things at the moment. This fully fledged mastering device is likely to be of similar, if not better quality than the mastering machines of the time. Of course it will cost a "little less" to build than the £15 000 odd that they were... ;) We will provide full hardware specs and software of course.

Fiath.

P.S. I don't know if you remember, but we (along with a load of other people) went to a retro games shop in London a couple of years ago. Problem is, I really can't remember where it was, or what it was called. Any ideas? Its where DZ bought Radient Silvergun for his Saturn... I don't remember seeing any Amiga games there, but I would quite like to have another look...