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Subject: Re: King's Quest 3 problem with copy protection
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
References: <2gf2vn$o...@gopher.cs.uofs.edu> <CJ6C5...@bigtop.dr.att.com>
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D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040 (d...@dwroll.att.com) wrote:
: From article <2gf2vn$o...@gopher.cs.uofs.edu>, by sid...@snapple.cs.uofs.edu (Dick Sidbury):
: > 
: > I bought kq2, 3 and 6cd for my daughter for x-mas.  Three
: > uses key disk copy protection and will not work under os/2
: > or my regular dos sessions.  It will however work if I boot
: > from a clean floppy.  Has anybody got a crack and or a suggestion
: > as to how to fix the problem?  I assume it is some device
: > driver or hardware thing that is causing the problem.

P. S. - If you're running smartdrive, disable it for your floppy drives 
as something about it messes up the original disk copy protection scheme. 
Change the smartdrive line in your autoexec.bat to read 
c:\dos\smartdrive -a -b. This will disable smartdrive for the a: and b: 
drives, hopefully allowing you to get the copy protection to work.

Ian W.