Ashton-Tate FRAMEWORK II Copy protection?!?!

[Jim Leonard]

Gary Sparkes wrote:
> I've got copy of FRAMEWORK II, the original SYSTEM1 disk is
> damaged, and SYSTEM1(Backup) Is calling itself an unauthorized
> copy, even though it's the original disk?
> 
> Any ideas on creating a good disk to use?

IIRC, copy-protection for Lotus, Ashton-Tate, and others was a common system 
like Prolok or SUPERLok.  Google around for a (complete) copy of Quaid's 
CopyWrite package, or a version of CopyIIPC... they come with memory-resident 
programs that fool the copy protection.  You can also search for a program 
called Business Neverlock (also by Quaid) that claimed to patch business 
programs to not require the key disk, but I've never seen that program "in the 
wild", so to speak.
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