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>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.

Dick -

As a general rule, the best place I have found to get game cracks
is on an ftp site named   ftp.uwp.edu   There is a directory there
that is full of cracks, but I don't know if kq3 is one of them.
The directory is   /pub/msdos/games/romulus/cracks    You might also
look in this directory for a program caller "neverlock".  It removes
copy protection from several different games.  It has a section
called "classics" or something like that that unprotects hundreds
of older games.  I don't know what the file name for this program
would be, but it's probably something like "nev..., nvl...., nlock..."
or something along those lines.  kq3 is old enough to be a good
candidate for their classic section.

Key disk copy protection is quite old.  I remember a program from
years ago named "nokey" that was a TSR that would defeat this type
of protection.  You loaded nokey before playing the game.  I haven't
seen it for years and wouldn't know where to tell you to find it.
I have no idea if it would even work under your OS/2 situation.

Good Luck,
Dave Haertig
hae...@att.com

Subject: Re: King's Quest 3 problem with copy protection
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
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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.