] Sydex (
http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software
] available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal
] with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats. Instead of going into
] ...
>If you are referring to teledisk, it is worth noting that they no
>longer offer a single-user non-commercial license; they stopped
>offerring it as shareware in 1991, and is now solely a commercial
>product with a licensing fee of $150. The shareware version that
>can still be found out there is now "warez" - illegal, copyable
>only by pimply-faced HaKkErZ with bad breath and no morals. :-/
>I exchanged e-mail with them recently about this, and though they
>were polite, they refused to consider licensing it for less than
>their stated price.
As I use Teledisk for commerce, I don't have any problems with
the $150 fee. I agree, it is a shame that the shareware version
can no longer be registered for a small fee, especially because
large quantities of freely distributable software is out there
in Teledisk-image format (for example, all the POS-related
RX50's for DEC Pro's are archived at Uppsula in teledisk format.)
>Anybody know of any reasonable alternatives, for those of us that
>are hampered by rules against theft?
Sydex does have a product which fills many of the same needs
that Teledisk does, and this is CopyQM. It supports 3.5", 5.25",
and 8" floppies and even has some features that Teledisk didn't
have. I don't have as much experience with it as I do with Teledisk,
but CopyQM does have the advantage that single-user licenses
are available for only US$25.
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Received on Sat Oct 31 1998 - 16:21:44 GMT