1 2 Thank You for purchasing MARAUDER II! 3 4 Discovery Software International is committed to one goal, to provide you with the 5 best possible software for your Amiga. We hope you will be pleased with MARAUDER II. 6 We believe it is the finest disk backup utility for the Amiga. It is the 7 fastest, most powerful and most reliable tool for backing up ALL your Amiga 8 software, both protected and unprotected. Its design incorporates high 9 performance, ease of use and a flexible update system with the future in mind. We 10 believe software should be easy to use. In keeping with this philosophy, MARAUDER 11 II has the most intuitive user interface of any backup utility available for the Amiga. 12 13 Requirements: 14 15 MARAUDER II requires and Amiga 1000 computer with at least 512K of memory to 16 operate. It works best on machines with additional expansion memory and one or 17 more external disk drives. MARAUDER II also requires Kickstart version 1.1 or 18 greater. We recommend that you use Kickstart version 1.2 if possible. The 19 newest version of the system software provides features that allow MARAUDER II 20 to deliver enhanced performance. MARAUDER II is released with Workbench 1.2, 21 but it will operate without change under the 1.1 release of the system software. 22 23 AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BIT OF ADVICE! 24 25 If you DO NOT already own MARAUDER I (that is, if this package is not an upgrade 26 from MARAUDER I) then you MUST record the serial number for this program in the 27 space provided on the inside back-cover of your manual. If you DO already own 28 MARAUDER I you will be on file under your original registration number, and needn't 29 mail the new card in. If for some reason, you neglected to mail your MARAUDER I 30 registration card to us, you can mail the new card instead. Your serial number is 31 printed on the registration card you received with your package. This number is NOT 32 on your disk and CANNOT be recovered if you fail to record it, so please be sure 33 you copy it correctly. After recording the serial number you should then complete the 34 registration card and return it immediately to Discovery Software International. If we 35 do not have your registration card on file you will NOT be eligible for technical 36 support or product updates. We will make no exceptions for any reason. 37 38 39 2 1 2 3 Starting MARAUDER II: 4 5 First, turn on your Amiga and monitor and load Kickstart, or if your machine is 6 already running simply reboot. If you are unfamiliar with these procedures please 7 refer to Chapter 3 of the Introduction To Amiga which you received with your 8 machine. MARAUDER II is delivered on a ready to use Workbench 1.2 disk. When 9 the image of a hand holding a Workbench disk appears insert your MARAUDER II 10 disk in the internal disk drive. The workbench screen will appear. 11 12 Next, make a backup copy of your MARAUDER II disk. Again, if you are unfamiliar 13 with this procedure please refer to Chapter 3 of Introduction to Amiga. You should 14 use the backup copy and keep your original in a safe place. 15 16 To run MARAUDER II simply double-click the MARAUDER II disk icon. A new drawer 17 which contains the MARAUDER II icon will open on the Workbench screen. Next 18 double-click on the MARAUDER II icon to start the program. (The icon looks like a 19 sledgehammer) After a short delay you will hear a sound from the Amiga and the 20 Discovery Software logo screen will be displayed. The main MARAUDER II screen 21 will then appear. Click the left mouse button on the CONTINUE gadget of the 22 copyright requester to proceed. 23 24 Purchase Verification: 25 26 After the copyright requester has been displayed you will be asked to type in a 27 word or phrase from this manual. Please look up the specified word in this 28 manual, click the left mouse button on the requester's text gadget, and enter the 29 word or phrase precisely as it appears. Click the left mouse button on the 30 CONTINUE gadget to proceed. If you have failed to enter the correct word or 31 phrase you will have two chances to retry. If you fail three times you will need to 32 reboot your machine. This should never happen. 33 34 The MARAUDER II Screen * An Overview: 35 36 The MARAUDER II user-interface has been designed to mimic the actual Amiga 37 disk copying procedure as closely as possible. On the MARAUDER II screen you 38 will see visual representations of an Amiga with a monitor and three external disk 39 drives. At the top of the screen there are gadgets for starting and stopping the 3 1 MARAUDER II copy process. You will also see images of an Original and a Copy 2 disk as well as a set of gadgets for selecting Source and Target drives. 3 4 5 Selecting Source and Target Drives: 6 7 Before backing up a disk it is necessary to select which disk drive will contain the 8 source disk and which drives will contain target disks. On single drive systems the 9 source and target drives must necessarily be the same and are both selected as the 10 internal drive by default. On systems with one or more external drives the default 11 selection uses the internal drive as the source and the first external drive as the 12 target. You do not need to make any more selections if you wish to use these default 13 settings. 14 15 There are two methods from selecting source and target drives in MARAUDER II. First 16 you may click the left mouse button on either of the two disk images. The disk 17 marked "ORIG" represents the original source disk, and the disk marked "COPY" 18 represents the copy or target disk. After clicking, a copy of the disk image will 19 attach itself to the mouse pointer. You may then move the mouse pointer over the 20 desired disk drive and click the left mouse button again to select that drive. If 21 the drive is available for use the disk image will detach itself from the pointer, slip 22 into the drive, and a message will be displayed on the miniature Amiga monitor to 23 indicate your selection. If the desired drive is not attached to the system or isalready 24 in use a message will be displayed on the miniature Amiga monitor to indicate the 25 problem. You can let go of an attached disk without making a selection by clicking 26 the left mouse button anywhere on the rainbow background of the screen. The 27 attached disk image will then disappear into the rainbow. 28 29 The alternate method of drive selection is to click the left mouse button on any of 30 the gadgets in the "Source" and "Target" gadgets arrays. These arrays are labeled 31 "DF0:", "DF1:", "DF2:", and "DF3:", which represent the internal drive, and the first, 32 second, and third external drives respectively. Selected drives are represented by 33 green gadgets and unselected drives are represented by red gadgets. A 34 previously selected target drive may be deselected by clicking the left mouse 35 button on its green-hilighted gadget. The "Source" drive cannot be deselected, but it 36 can be changed by clicking on another drive gadget. 37 38 39 4 1 Starting the Copy: 2 3 After you have selected the source and target drives you wish to use, you are ready 4 to start the MARAUDER II copy process. This is easy to do, just click the left mouse 5 button on the MARAUDER II "START" gadget. A requester will appear on the 6 screen displaying your source and target drive choices. If the displayed choices 7 are not the ones you wish to use you may cancel at this time by clicking the left 8 mouse button on the3 requester's "CANCEL" gadget. Otherwise, you should make 9 sure that the disk to be copied is located in the selected source drive and that the 10 disks to become duplicates are located in their respective target drives. If you have 11 selected any of your drives as both source and target, then that drive will initially 12 serve as the source, and a requester will appear, prompting you to insert a target 13 disk at the appropriate time. When the proper disks are in the proper drives, click the 14 left mouse button on the requester's "CONTINUE" gadget to proceed. 15 16 It is important to note that the previous contents of a disk are irretrievably lost whenit 17 is used as a target disk for MARAUDER II. You must be certain not to copy onto a 18 disk containing programs or data which you will need later. There is no way to 19 recover information from a disk which has been inadvertently copied onto, so 20 please be careful. Various conditions and events may cause MARAUDER II to 21 display requesters requiring your input or attention. When such a requester 22 appears you should follow the indicated instructions to continue or cancel as you 23 wish. 24 25 When MARAUDER II has completed the backup process it will display a requester 26 with the message "Copy finished", and you may click the left mouse button in the 27 requester's "CONTINUE" gadget to proceed. 28 29 The Status Display: 30 31 To inform you of the current state of the copy process a status display is provided on 32 the MARAUDER II screen. It is located on the monitor of the miniature Amiga at 33 screen left. When MARAUDER II is idle the monitor is blank. At other times, the 34 monitor screen will display the status of the copy in progress and will relay theresults 35 of drive selection operations. Error messages concerning illogical placement of disk 36 icons can also be expected from time to time. 37 38 Once MARAUDER II has been activated with the START gadget the monitor screen 39 becomes the prime feedback mechanism for the copy process. The name of the 5 1 source drive will be displayed near the top, and the destination drive's name near the 2 bottom. Under each of these will be displayed the status of that drive, either reading 3 or writing, and the track and side involved. If the information on any track of the 4 source disk is not in Amiga DOS format the reading drive's status will indicate "Not a 5 DOS Track". Depending on the nature of the source track the monitor display may 6 indicate that the read in progress is being retried. This will be a common occurrence 7 when copying protected disks of various types and many also occur if the source disk 8 is faulty. When making multiple copies with one drive acting as both source and 9 destination, only the status of the source drive will be displayed during disk reads. 10 Otherwise, the monitor will display both reading and writing status at once. During 11 the Write, the names of all drives involved will be displayed on by one as each is 12 written to. Likewise, the monitor will display which side of each disk is beingwritten. 13 14 MultiCopying: 15 16 MARAUDER II has the capability to make up to four simultaneous copies from a 17 single original. It can also make multiple sets of duplicates without having to re-read 18 the original. These features make it possible to use MARAUDER II as the core of an 19 economical and efficient disk reproduction system. User group producing large 20 numbers of public domain library disks can use MARAUDER II to speed up the 21 tedious and time consuming duplications process. Commercial software houses may 22 find that MARAUDER II presents an attractive alternative to expensive software 23 reproduction services. 24 25 To make multiple simultaneous copies, simply select more than one target drive 26 using the drive selection procedures described above. MARAUDER II will prompt 27 you when it's necessary to swap disks. 28 29 If your system has one megabyte or more expansion memory, then it may be most 30 efficient to use all your drives as target drives since it will be possible for 31 MARAUDER II to read the entire source disk into memory. After MARAUDER II has 32 completed making each set of copies you will be asked if you would like to make 33 more copies of the same disk. You can click on the"CONTINUE" gadget to make an 34 additional set of copies without having to read the source disk again. You may 35 instead click the "CANCEL" gadget to terminate the copy process. 36 37 38 39 6 1 If You Have Only One Drive: 2 3 The backup operation will require several swaps of the original and duplicate disks 4 before it is completed. Requesters will be displayed indicating when it is time to 5 swap the disks. Pay close attention to each requester's instructions as the are 6 displayed. 7 8 Index Sync Option: 9 10 Turning Index Sync "on" from the Options menu directs MARAUDER II to align the 11 physical starting position of each data track with the index hole in the diskette. This 12 option may need to be set to copy some software correctly, but it will substantially 13 increase the time necessary to copy a disk with MARAUDER II. For most of your 14 backup needs Index Sync is neither required or recommended. 15 16 17 Verification Option: 18 19 Turning Verification "on" from the Options menu directs MARAUDER II to attempt to 20 verify its work. The MARAUDER II does this by comparing the data written to the 21 target disk with the data read from the source disk. Use of this option does not 22 guarantee a successful copy of some protected or damaged disks, but it may 23 help you detect a defective target disk. If there's a problem, the Verification option 24 causes verify-related error messages to be displayed in the "copy finished" 25 requester. The first error message indicates that the source disk contained 26 unreadable data. The second error message indicates that the target disk couldn't 27 written to. This may be due to damage on the source or target disks, respectively. 28 These errors may not be fatal. Keep in that that the best test of whether a copy 29 works is to try to use it. Verification is intended primarily for those using 30 MARAUDER II for mass duplication. 31 32 Copy Mode: 33 34 MARAUDER II can operate in either of two copy modes, Analytical or Verbatim. The 35 Copy Mode selection of the Options menu allows you to choose which mode 36 MARAUDER II will use. Most copies are made using Analytical mode, which is 37 the program's default setting. In this mode MARAUDER II produces an exact 38 duplicate of the source disk whenever possible. In the case of copy-protected 39 disks Analytical mode causes MARAUDER II to do its best to defeat the copy 7 1 protection in order to make a working copy. We recommend that you always use 2 Analytical mode, even when copying unprotected disks. 3 4 Speed Check: 5 6 The Speed Check option will give you an accurate measure of how much data your 7 disk drive is writing to a disk. The faster a disk drive spins, the less data it can 8 write on each track. Many Amiga copy-protection schemes are based on this fact. A 9 box will show the drive speed in bytes per revolution, and normal values should 10 fall between 6300 and 6400 bytes. 11 12 MARAUDER II performs the speed check on the first selected Target drive. The 13 speed check destroys data on the target disk, so be careful. Data lost 14 cannot be recovered. You should immediately reformat or copy to the disk that you 15 use for the speed check so that you won't mistake it for a bad disk. 16 17 MARAUDER II Utility Programs: 18 19 In addition to MARAUDER II itself, your release disk also includes four utility 20 programs, Reflector3, TheDecoder, DiskWipe and DiskErr. Reflector3 is used to back 21 up the Mirror Copier, versions 1.0 through 1.3. The Decoder can produce 22 completely decrypted versions of several popular programs from their encrypted 23 originals. This is useful for fast loading and hard disk installation. DiskErr checks 24 a diskette for errors, and DiskWipe quickly erases a disk. 25 26 Reflector3: 27 28 Reflector3 is located in the root director of the MARAUDER II disk. To start it 29 simply double click the Reflector3 icon or type the name "Reflector3" from the 30 CLI. The program will provide you with step by step instructions to follow. When 31 Reflector3 has finished successfully you will have a ready to run program called 32 "MIRROR" in the RAM: device. This program can then be copied onto any AmigaDOS 33 disk and is not copy-protected in any way. Each time you run "MIRROR", however 34 you will have to reboot your machine as this program is not compatible with the 35 Amiga multi-tasking environment. 36 37 38 39 8 1 The Decoder: 2 3 The Decoder will produce totally decrypted version of the following programs from 4 their copy-protected originals: 5 6 Deluxe Paint Deluxe Print 7 Deluxe Video Instant Music 8 MarbleMadness! Financial Cookbook 9 Adventure Construction Set 10 11 The Decoder can be invoked only from the CLI. The command line has the 12 following format: 13 14 Decoder [Inputfile outputfile] 15 16 In this example Input file is the name of the encrypted original, and the Outputfile is 17 the name you wish to give the decrypted output file. The Decoder will display a 18 short copyright message and begin its work. If an error is encountered the 19 program will display a message describing the problem and will then terminate 20 unsuccessfully. The program will exit with a short message on successful 21 completion. 22 23 We suggest that you first copy your original disk with MARAUDER II and do all you 24 work on the backup copy. You will find the appropriate input file in the "c" directory 25 of the source disk, it is the file with the ".dat" filename extension (e.g."dpaint.dat", 26 "MarbleMadness!.dat"). A sample command line for The Decoder would be as 27 follows 28 29 "decoder df1:c/dpaint.date ram:dpaint" 30 31 After the decoder is finished you will want to delete the .dat file from your source 32 disk and then copy the decrypted version to version to the root directory of your 33 source disk. You may need to use the AmigaDOS "Protect" command to change 34 the deletion status of the ".dat" file before you can delete it. 35 36 An example of doing this would be: 37 38 "protect df1:c/dpaint.date rwed" 39 "delete df1:c/dpaint.dat". 9 1 "copy ram:dpaint df1:dpaint" 2 3 You can run the new version of "dpaint" just like the old version, except it will no 4 longer perform its rather lengthy prologue and verification. After decryption you will 5 need to experiment to determine exactly what files need to be copied or renamed in 6 each case for hard-disk installation. 7 8 DiskErr: 9 10 The DiskErr program is a convenient way of checking whether or not a disk contains 11 unreadable data. Starting the program causes it to scan sequentially across the disk 12 looking for nonstandard data. If any non AmigaDOS track data is encountered during 13 the scan DiskErr will print the location of the data. This program is very useful for 14 determining whether an unsuccessful copy attempt was due to bad media or not. If 15 the copy didn't work because of bad media, then the errors on the source and target 16 disks will be different. The syntax of the DiskErr command is as follows: 17 18 DiskErr [drivenum] [-v] 19 20 In this example "drivenum" is the number of one of the drives (drives are numbered 0, 21 1, 2, and 3). The "-v" is optional, and instructs DiskErr to provide a verbose listingof 22 all errors on the disk in drive "drivenum". 23 24 DiskWipe: 25 26 DiskWipe is a utility for quickly erasing a 3.5" diskette. When started it willcompletely 27 erase the selected disk. DiskWipe does not format the disk for AmigaDOS. 28 The syntax for DiskWipe is: 29 30 DiskWipe [drivenum] [-v] 31 32 See the section above on DiskErr for an explanation of the syntax of the DiskWipe 33 command. 34 35 Installing MARAUDER II on Another Disk: 36 37 You will need to have a workbench disk or some other bootable disk. The disk must 38 be called "Workbench" for installation. You can relabel this disk after installing 39 MARAUDER II by choosing "Rename" from the menu called "Workbench" at the top j 10 1 left of the screen in the Amiga Workbench environment. For the actual installation, an 2 executable file is included on the MARAUDER II disk called M2Install. This is a 3 "batch" file which can be invoked by typing: 4 5 "execute m2install" 6 7 This should be typed at the CLI "1>" prompt. You get to the CLI by double-clicking on 8 the CLI icon in the System drawer which is in the Workbench disk window. Typing 9 "execute M2Install" copies all the necessary files to run the MARAUDER II into the 10 RAM: device. It then prompts you to insert any disk called "Workbench" into drive df0: 11 and proceeds to copy the necessary files from RAM: to "Workbench". You can then 12 treat the new disk just like your original MARAUDER II disk. 13 14 Troubleshooting: 15 16 Extensive effort has been put into making MARAUDER II as automatic and 17 trouble-free as possible. If you are having trouble backing up a particular title be 18 sure to check the current back-up list to see whether that program appears. A 19 current list will be supplied with each MARAUDER II shipped. If the title is 20 mentioned on the current list then try your original to verify that it runs.(seriously!) 21 If the title is not mentioned on the backup list, MARAUDER II may still be able to 22 backup the disk so it's wise to give it a try. Also, you may need to use a different 23 destination disk. The media on the first disk that you used may have been faulty. 24 Always be sure to use the highest quality magnetic media for your destination disks. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 11