HARDWARE - EXPANSION: CYCLONE II - THE XCOPY II TWIN SYSTEM The name CYCLONE II - XCOPY II TWIN SYSTEM is the result of a coproduction by CACHET SOFTWARE and RICHARD APLIN. The hardware - expansion and the software to control it have been developed by Richard Aplin, Charles Lawrence, Claus Peter Lippert and Eric Reinhart. The exclusive distributor is CACHET SOFTWARE. The reason we developed this hardware was to enable people who spend a lot of money on ORIGINALS to back up the programs they bought. When you use our CYCLONE II to create a backup of your ORIGINAL, you will find, that in most cases you cannot copy the BACKUP disc any further. The reason is, that we only support to back up originals. Also you will find, that the BACKUP is still copy protected. This is, because we do not want to support software piracy in any way. Finally you have to accept, that because of technical reasons, you must only use new discs as backup-discs. CYCLONE II will not BACKUP most of your originals if you use a disc, which has been used before. We could have changed most of the above, but we like it the way it is. The reason is, it does not effect somebody, who just wants to back up his own ORIGINAL, but it makes life harder for software pirates. SOFTWARE PIRACY IS A CRIME AND HURTS THE SOFTWARE COMPANIES AS WELL AS IT HURTS YOU AND ME, BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT A LOT OF COMPANIES HAVE TO STOP DEVELOPING GOOD SOFTWARE, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT PAY OFF. AS A RESULT OF PIRACY, THE QUALITY OF MOST SOFTWARE IS PRETTY LOW. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH PROFIT TO SPEND MORE MONEY IN DEVELOPING GOOD SOFTWARE. THIS IS THE TRUTH, PROVED BY THE FACT THAT SOME OF THE BIGGEST SOFTWARE-DEVELOPERS AND -DISTRIBUTORS WENT TO CHAPTER ELEVEN LATELY. OUR OWN SOFTWARE IS NOT COPY-PROTECTED AND THERE- FORE EVEN MORE PIRATED THAN MOST OTHER PROGRAMS. (BY THE WAY, IF ONE OF YOU "FRIENDS" ASKS YOU FOR A PIRATED COPY OF THIS PRODUCT, YOU SHOULD TELL HIM TO CONSIDER BUYING AN ORIGINAL - OTHERWISE WE MAY CONSIDER TO LEAVE THE AMIGA- MARKET AND MOVE TO A MARKET WHICH GIVES US THE OPPOTUNITY TO EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO SUPPORT A PRODUCT AS WELL AS HONEST CUSTOMERS DESERVE - GET IT?) MANUAL: You start the program which runs the software directly from CLI. To do this you have to follow our instructions carefully. 1. Switch off your Amiga. 2. Disconnect all external drives. 3. Plug in the hardware in the port, where you usually plug in your external drives. 4. Plug the external drive which you want to use as the target drive into the hardware. Do not connect more than one external drive. To run CYCLONE II on the Amiga 2000 also requires an EXTERNAL disc drive. 5. Switch on your Amiga. 6. Boot Kickstart (only Amiga 1000). 7. Insert CYCLONE II disc in internal drive. 8. Enter the name of the CYCLONE which fits your Amiga and press return. For Amiga 500 type: 1, for Amiga 1000 type: 1 and for Amiga 2000 type: 2. 9. Wait for loading.... 10. When CYCLONE II appears on the screen, take the CYCLONE II - disc out of the internal drive. 11. Put the new unformated target disc in the external drive. 12. Put the ORIGINAL, which you want to back up in the internal drive. Make sure, the write-protect is set on the original. 13. Use the cursor keys to set start- and endtrack. 14. After having finished all the above, now press return. CYCLONE II will now commence the backup process. 15. When the BACKUP is done, please take the ORIGINAL and the BACKUP out of the drives. In case you have to back up more than one ORIGINAL repeat the steps 11 - 15 until you are done. 16. Switch off your Amiga 17. Unplug the hardware and be happy. Some general remarks and things you should keep in mind: Target discs: NEW, UNFORMATED UNPLUG hardware after using it, but switch off Amiga first! While you use the hardware, the Amiga cannot be used for anything else. Source-drive is allways the internal drive Tagret drive is allways the external drive (also with A2000!) Before using the hardware, do a speed test at your drives. You can use the option U on CV PARAMETER to do this. The closer the speed of both drives is, the better the hardware works. If you have any further questions, please give us a call, before using the hardware. There may be technical reasons, which dissable your system to run the hardware properly. We hope that our program works to your satisfaction and kindly ask you to send us your registration card. If you want to get the next update automatically, please send $10 (£5) along with the registration card for XCOPY II - CYCLONE. Then you will recieve the next update without any further costs. -cpl- 07. September 1989 Utilities: XCOPY II - the program you just bought..........$29.95 £19.95 XCOPY II - Update Service.......................$10.- £5.- XCOPY II - HARDWARE (may not be allowed to use..$14.95 £10.- in your country - check the law of your state!!) QUED - the programmers quick editor, superfast, $29.95 £19.95 (find Version 2.03 on this disc at no extra cost) QUED - Update Service...(V2.2 available now)....$10.- £5.- MARK II, SOUND SYSTEM - a superb music-editor,..$44.95 £26.95 MARK II, SOUND SYSTEM - DEVELOPER VERSION.......$tba £tba (spring 1990 - includes midi) MARK II, 5 SOUND SYSTEM INSTRUMENT DISCS B-F...S24.95 £14.95 Mark II, 10 SOUND SYSTEM INSTRUMENT DISCS B-L...$39.95 £24.95 All direct orders are shipped with no further cost, if you prepay the product with a cheque or cash. please notice, that the british prices include VAT, the american prices do not include TAX. Games: DROL - distributed by Brøderbund ALIEN LEGION - distributed by Gainstar SLIDER, QUASAR, CRASH & BURN (release date: Oktober 1989) There is a special offer for our registered customers: When you send in your registration card for XCOPY II you can order the games SLIDER, QUASAR and CRASH & BURN direct for the price of $12 (£7) each. Just send a cheque or the money along and the program will be delivered to you at no further costs. This offer is limited to our registered customers only.