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That is an interesting copy protection scheme, partly because it'd probably be a criminal offence to write anything like it these days. It contains code intended to silently reformat whatever's in the floppy drive if any of the checksums fail - something that could easily happen if the tape or hardware's even slightly flaky - and because genuine copies are loaded from tape that's going to be an unrelated floppy, quite possibly one with important data on it.


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