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**************************** TURBOBACKUP.README **********************
DISCLAIMER
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Copyright 1988 by Steffen Stempel and Martin Kopp.
You may distribute this program for non-commercial purposes.
You are encouraged to make as much copies of TURBOBACKUP as
you like as long as you're not violating any of the statements
below.
- Nobody except the authors are allowed to gain any profit by
using and/or distributing this program. This includes the
duplication of commercial disks.
- Nobody is allowed to change any part of the following files:
TURBOBACKUPV1.00
TURBOBACKUP.doc
TURBOBACKUP.readme
ReadMe.First
Execute.Me
- If you are giving this program to someone else, it is your
responsibility that these files are unchanged and that the
person receiving TURBOBACKUP agrees to this disclaimer.
- To protect them from getting lost or changed we decided to
permit distribution only in one of these three forms:
- the complete directory TurboBackupV1.00
(including all files mentioned above and the
file TurboBackupV1.00.info with the icon.)
- the file TurboBackupV1.00.arc
(including the same files as the directory and
the file Execute.Me which renames the files
in the ARCchieve to their original names.)
- both the above.
- We encourage people who want to distribute TURBOBACKUP on
their commercial disks. BUT you must contact Martin Kopp at
the address below to get a special marked version that shows
that you are entitled to distribute it. You also have to
provide two versions of your program to the authors.
(Little fee for providing your customers with a reliable
backup-program and having minor trouble replacing disks!)
- The authors have tested the program very intensive. BUT we
can not give you any warranty regarding the function of the
program itself or the reliability of the copies made with
it (Sorry guy's but no commercial program can provide such
a warranty nor can we do it with our program.)
- Any questions regarding the above stated distribution
on commercial disks, any error reports (not missing
features, that would be too much to handle because we
already got a 5 pages long list of features we would like
to add !!!), any letters to encourage our work (please send
NO money or other 'payment') should be directed to:
MARTIN KOPP
FRANKENSTRASSE 34
D-6800 MANNHEIM 52
West Germany
- You as the user are responsible not to violate any
copyright or law by using TURBOBACKUP.
Dedicated ...
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Specially to Fred Fish for his longtime, intensive dedication
to the Amiga community (Applause!).
To his son, who does all the copying (even if he is earning
a little money by doing it).
To the people at Commodore-Amiga and especially those who
originally developed the Amiga, even if they are not currently
with Commodore (Hopefully not long!).
To all sysops of Amiga-oriented bulletin boards, the Net-gods
etc. and to all Amiga-users that love their machines like
we do!
We wish all of you a whole lot of fun with the Amiga and hope
that TURBOBACKUP will help to prevent you from any pain by
damaged disks and corrupt programs.
WHAT IS TURBOBACKUP ?
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TURBOBACKUP is the fastest, safest way we know to do
backups of unprotected standard AMIGA-Dos-floppy disks on an
Amiga with Kick1.2 or higher using two or more disk-drives
and working with multitasking.
WHERE DOES IT COME FROM ?
-------------------------
The program was developed by two German Amiga enthusiasts:
Martin Kopp and Steffen Stempel.
We began our development of a save copy-program as a result of
many problems with corrupt disks generated by the original
Diskcopy from the Workbench (that works fine but does not do
any verification on the destination disk) and many other
programs available at mid 1986. These programs either were
too slow or not reliable enough. So we developed a program
called Extended Diskcopy. Steffen did a whole lot of work in
the research for all this Amiga-stuff you need and Martin
tested all versions and made suggestions for the user-
interface and functionality. One version made it by accident
to the public (named Extended Diskcopy 1.5a) while this was
not intended by that time, because there were some well-known
bugs in it. But perhaps you got it and found it useful.
The main drawback was its speed and a lack of flexibility of
the user-interface. Then on the Cebit 1987 Martin had some
great ideas for a reliable, fast new backup program.
So we decided to make a new approach and started developing
TURBOBACKUP. It took one year of coding, testing, recoding
etc.. But then it was ready to be released to the public.
In it's Release 1.0 it is far from perfect regarding the
userinterface and functionality. But it is thoroughly tested
and there are no more known bugs in it. We think it's one of
the best tested programs for the amiga on the market (not
like for example a really superb paint-program that has seen
Version 2.0 before even the simplest guru-generating errors
were removed !!! And the new European version would be send
back to alpha-testing if tested by me, Martin Kopp!!!).
WHERE IS THE VIRUS ?
--------------------
There is NO Virus in our program!
We know that some stupid guys over here in Europe have
managed to make our bad reputation even worse by bringing
up virus programs. We do hate these people for what they did
just like you. (especially those who now know the danger and
nevertheless develop more and more b*llsh*t.)
We know that there is no way to prove that we are loyal amiga
freaks and did not implemented a virus. It would be of no use
to publish the source-code because there are very few users
that could make a decision on virus or no virus. There would be
the danger of getting 'new' versions from some br*indead people.
So we came up with the following way:
We will send the first copies only to people who know one of
us personally, a trusted friend or a similar path.
Only people of 'general trust' like Fred Fish (Applause!) etc.
will get TURBOBACKUP in the beginning. These people can
test it and decide to distribute it.
We think this is the best if not only way to gain trust.
WHY SHOULD YOU USE TURBOBACKUP ?
--------------------------------
Because you want reliable fast backups, so you do not have to
worry about each copy you make.
And because for example we here in Germany would like to get
our Fish-disks errorless.
WHAT DRAWBACKS WILL BE THERE ?
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For sure there will be drawbacks like:
- you may have to use better disks now, because TURBOBACKUP
won't copy on bad disks (it's may be more expensive, but
it's worth the money!)
- you cannot reuse a disk so often like: "Oh, the program
is lost, then I can copy something else on this disk"
- there are no coffee-breaks while making copies with verify.
What will be next?
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Maybe, if you like this program as we do, and we hear about
that, we might decide to get our special disk with future
improvements out of our desk and get to work on TURBOBACKUP 2.0.
There would be enhancements like:
- single drive copy
- multiple copy for up to four drives
- fast, reliable multiformat
- directory-display
- blocking only the drives in use (so multitasking for users
without ram- or harddisks is more convinient)
- special extended disk-testing
- better user-interface
- sizeable window
etc. etc. etc. .....
BUT there will not be an option to copy protected disks!
We are not willing to provide any help to pirates or people
who think their software is not good enough to be sold for
the price they offer it and make copy-protection on their
disks. Sorry to all buyers of such software but there is NO
way to make security backups of copy-protected software with
TURBOBACKUP. Think of this when buying the next product and
you will be much happier!
HOW CAN I MAKE SUGGESTIONS, SAY THANKS, GET THE RIGHT TO
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DISTRIBUTE IT ON COMMERCIAL DISKS?
----------------------------------
Ok, if there are serious errors, then please write an exact
bug-report including system configuration (harddisk, ram,
processor etc.), version of system-software, used software
and a reproducible error-description.
If you have suggestions to make that you think a boy with
good phantasy (like me, who invented all those tricks for
V1.0 8-) ) could not imagine, then write them down perhaps
with some example code if necessary.
If you want to express any thanks, or other comments you
think could make us happy, write them down. (Very welcome!)
If you want to distribute it on your commercial product disk
you CANNOT use this version!!!! You have to write to us and
get a version that will tell that you are allowed to do it!
Anything else is violation of our distribution-rules. (We
think you understand this, because we don't want that anyone
can exploit the hard work we put in this piece of code !!)
So what should you do ???? Write to : ......
MARTIN KOPP
FRANKENSTR.34
D-6800 MANNHEIM 52
WEST GERMANY
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DONATIONS (LIKE MONEY OR PIRATED
SOFTWARE OR ANYTHING ELSE) EXCEPT YOUR BEST WISHES AND OTHER
WRITTEN STUFF (source code examples).
Please do not ask us for direct distribution if you are not
somebody like a representative of a great user group etc..
The guy at the above address is not able to make a lot
of secretary-work while thinking about other great projects
and doing some studying at the university !
WE WILL NOT HANDLE ANY PIRATED SOFTWARE OR THINGS LIKE THAT!
TURBOBACKUP IS NOT INTENDED TO HELP PEOPLE DOING SUCH DIRTY WORK!
WE KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET A PROGRAM OUT AND YOU WOULD DO
ANY OTHER AMIGA USER GREAT HARM BY PIRATING SOFTWARE!