CD-Copy, The Only Place To Backup Games

The First Section to go up on this new site will be CD Covers (Remember they are only used to restore old ones that are damaged). We will first be putting up Covers for the PSX and PC. So keep tabs on us and we will give you what you want.

With the new protection on pc games now its getting harder and harder to make a working backup. Games that have SafeDisc v2 on are Delta Froce 3: Land Warrior, Hitman: Codename 47 and Command & Conquer Red alert 2.
Features:
16x write, 10x re-write and 40x reading
BURN-Proof anti-coaster technology
2MB of Buffer
DAO-RAW
up to 40x DAE(?)

Wednesday January 17 2001

I have re-designed the site today adding easily loadable images so they load faster for people who dont have a fast internet. I also plan to update the site everyday when most of the info is up. Also we will have an e-mail service soon that offers people the chance to send in their amazing work with cracks and covers to us and we will post them on here. Please bear with us as I am Trying my hardest to get all the site up.

Sunday January 14 2001

We will look at CD-R's soon with reviews on which is the fastest and which is worth your hard earned Moolah...

Friday January 12 2001

I plan to put up a Forum and chat soon so you can post your requests about CD-Cracks or covers. Also chat about things to help each other.

Thursday January 11 2001

"...LaCie has announced a full complement of products ranging from a DVD-RAM drive to FireWire tape backup, this week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco:

- The LaCie DVD-RAM drive can be used with USB and FireWire-equipped Macs, as well as SCSI-2 and retails for US$699. The 4.7/9.4GB DVD-RAM drive ships complete with cables, the LaCie DVD-RAM software drivers for Mac and one 4.7GB DVD-RAM disc. LaCie also offers DVD-RAM media at $30 for the single-sided 4.7GB disc, and $59 for the double-sided 9.4GB disc.
- The 4x4x24x PocketDrive CD-RW, a 6" x 6" CD-RW that fits in the palm of your hand. The LaCie PocketDrive CD-RW can be used with USB and FireWire-equipped Macs and writes and rewrites at 4X speed, enabling users to burn a full 650MB CD-R or CD-RW disc in less than 20 minutes. The drive will also read all industry standard CDs at 24X speed. The drive retails for $399.
- A 16x40x10x CD-RW drive. Available as a SCSI-3 or USB/FireWire product, the $379 drive comes bundled with Toast from Roxio..."

"...Under public pressure to pay what they consider excessive royalties on DVD products, manufacturers in China are threatening to roll out their own specification for DVD-like disks and players for the Chinese market. The spec for China's so-called Advanced Video Disk (AVD) technology, which foreign companies would be required to license for products they sell in China, could be published this year if DVD royalty issues are not settled. But industry sources outside mainland China said AVD may be a ploy to gain leverage in negotiations over DVD royalties.

Chinese manufacturers raised the topic of the new AVD standard after members of the DVD Forum said at the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show earlier this week that they are stepping up efforts to get DVD system manufacturers to pay intellectual-property royalties, which can amount to as much as 10 percent of DVD hardware's total cost.

"The unilateral high royalties will be very harmful for the global industry and customers. It sets up a terrible barrier to further negotiation and cooperation," said Jin Zhenglong, secretary general of China Audio Industry Association (CAIA), which represents about 90 DVD and video CD player manufacturers in China. "It probably will drive Chinese manufacturers to give up on the DVD format. It also means foreign companies [will] need to pay high royalties for adoption of China's homegrown format in this growing market."

But Lu Shuh-tai, director of the Optical Electronics and Systems Laboratory in Taiwan, said he believes the Chinese government "wants to negotiate with the DVD Forum to see if it can get greater benefits from the royalties." The proposed AVD spec could be used "as leverage," Lu said..."

There is a new Freecom (Mirror) support site (mostly un-official). There are links for software Updates, FAQ, Firmware Upgrades, etc,etc! Freecom users pay a visit.

"...Oak Technology announced that LG Electronics is in volume production of a CD-RW drive integrating Oak's leading OTI-9795 CD-RW controller and OTI-9071 Analog Front End. The LGE drive uses Oak's OTI-9795 and OTI-9071 devices to create a new high-performance, cost-effective drive with 12x write and 32x read capabilities. Based on a CD burn time of 80 minutes for a 1x drive, this latest LGE CD-RW drive with a write speed of 12x could burn a CD in about seven minutes.

The Oak OTI-9795 controller's maximum 16x write/40x read capability builds on the strengths of its predecessor, the OTI-9790 8x write/32x read controller, adding substantial improvements in performance and functionality to fulfill the demands driving the market. Coupled with Oak's OTI-9071 analog front-end processor, the OTI-9795 provides one of the most complete and highest performance solution for CD-RW drives. A hardware and firmware reference design creates the industry's most fully integrated, flexible and cost-effective system solution to improve the OEM's time-to-market..."

Pioneer posted in their website the full specs for the DVR-103 series. The price is not yet announced:

Write Support: 4X and 8X CD-R, 4X CD-RW, 1X and 2X DVD-R
Read Support:(maximum speeds to be determined)
DVD-ROM & DVD-Video (single & dual layers), DVD-R, CD-ROM Mode1
CD-ROM XA Mode2 (form 1, form 2), Photo CD (single & multiple sessions), CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW
Buffer Memory: 2 MBytes (Write) 512KBytes (Read)
Interface: ATAPI
Audio Out: Head Phones Output/Head Phone Volume
Dimensions: 148 mm x 42.3 mm x 207.5 mm (W x H x D)
Recording Method: Disc-at-once and incremental write

Wednesday January 10 2001

It's time for another hardware overclocking. We don't advise you to try it until we are sure it works perfectly. The Ricoh 7063 supports 6X writing, 4X re-writing and 32X. The Ricoh 7083x support 8x writing, 8x re-writing and 32x reading. Stay tuned for more news:

Here is what has been posted in our Forum:
"...You have to use rmorph. Put rmorph and a 7063 bios in the same directory. Now rename a 7083 bios file to the same name as the 7063. Press next in rmorph. It will say that it is ready to upgrade the bios. It has allready done the drive check and it is ok!!

So just overwrite the 7063 bios with the 7083 (make sure it has the same name) and it will proceed with the flash!!! I did it in my drive and it works!! I tried writing a cd-r in 8x and it is allright. Unfortunately I only get the option to write to cd-rw to 4x but I think it has to do with my rw discs beign rated only up to 4x. I would like to hear from you , if it works on cdrw 8x..."

"...Adapte and Roxio today announced that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has again awarded monetary sanctions against Prassi Software USA Inc. ("Prassi") in the ongoing lawsuit between Adaptec and Prassi concerning Prassi's copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation and breaches of contract. This, most recent, award of monetary sanctions follows the United States District Court's Order finding Prassi in contempt of court for violations of the preliminary injunction and awarding the amount of $160,000 to Adaptec, Inc. for such violations.

The most recent sanctions award arises from Prassi's violations of prior discovery orders and what the court characterized as "obstructive conduct". On this occasion, Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante awarded Adaptec $33,896.31 as monetary sanctions "to deter defendants from such obstructive conduct in the future."

In response to this sanctions award, Dana Miles, the Vice President and General Counsel of Adaptec stated, "This latest award, just like the earlier determination that the defendants were in contempt of the preliminary injunction, confirms both the court's and Adaptec's intention to require compliance with the law and to seek all appropriate remedies for Prassi's misconduct. Adaptec will continue to vigorously protect its intellectual property and to seek all appropriate remedies from Prassi for that conduct." Adaptec's action against Prassi Software USA Inc. and its principals is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California before District Judge Jeremy Fogel. No trial date has been set..."

"...Pioneer wednesday announced that the Pioneer DVR-103 recordable DVD/CD drive is integrated in select new Power Mac G4 systems. This remarkable combination drive is targeted for home video editing and professional-quality DVD recording alike.

"Pioneer has achieved a new milestone with the DVR-103 drive," said Hani Gabriel, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Optical Systems Division for Pioneer. "This is an exciting new product and we're very pleased that Apple will be offering our latest DVD recording technology."

DVD-R is a 4.7GB write-once DVD format that is compatible with most existing video players and DVD-ROM drives. Pioneer's DVR-103 drive writes and reads DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW media, and also reads CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. The drive offers up to 4.7GB of storage capacity on a single sided DVD disc..."

Tuesday January 9 2001

Here we go today with several interesting news about Plextor based (12/10/32) CDR-W drives:

1) Enable SubChannel Data reading in PLEXTOR/CREATIVE/TDK/IOMEGA 12/10/32 CDR-W drives:

If you facing problems when try to read SubChannel Data with your Plextor based recorder there might be a solution for you. All the above drives have 2 jumpers next to the digital audio out. If you jumper them then you drive would recognized as UDMA33 and probably it will start reading SubChannel data. We tried it in our TDK CyClone 121032, which refused previously to read SubChannel data, and worked fine with latest CloneCD (2.8.4.2).

This is the official Plextor answer about jumper the drive:
"...The "Reserved jumper" (2 horizontal pins next to the digital audio out) is used for testing during production. If these jumper pins are shortened, some PC motherboard will work at Ultra DMA-33. But we do not guarantee the working..."

So if you face SubChannel problems please try the above trick and report back results.

2) Rename your IOMEGA/TDK/.. 121032 CDR-W drive to Plextor one:

Our good friends over Round Sparrow have released interesting info about converting the ID of your Plextor based recorder to "Plextor". Why you would like to do that?

As the people over Round Sparrow say: "...if you have to ask, then you likely should not. Only people who have incompatible burning software programs should even consider it! 98% of users do NOT need to do this. Experienced computer "hackers" are the ones this information is intended for -- now new computer users. The Iomega CD recorder works fine for 98% of applications without the name being changed..."

"...On January 9, 2001, Roxio announced the latest version of their flagship CD recording software for Macintosh, Toast 5 Titanium, at MacWorld in San Francisco, CA. Available this Spring, Toast 5 Titanium will be the most powerful CD mastering software for Macintosh ever created. Toast 5 Titanium boasts a totally new user interface specifically designed for use on Mac OS X, the ability to burn CDs in the background, automated MPEG encoding for burning iMovies onto VideoCDs for playback in most DVD players, and support for most DVD-RAM and DVD-R/RW drives.

Among its many new features, Toast Titanium now includes all the tools needed for complete CD mastering. One new application included is iView Multimedia, the easiest way for professionals and consumers to organize images, photos, movies, sounds, fonts and files. You can also create thumbnail catalogs, create slide shows and video postcards, or publish web galleries of your media on the Internet. Another cool tool included is QDesign MVP, a digital media player that allows you to encode and convert songs from one format to another, playback music and video files, and create and manage play lists.

For music enthusiasts, Toast 5 Titanium lets you turn LPs into CDs with CD Spin Doctor. With CD Spin Doctor, users can eliminate noises, pops and hisses from old LPs, while boosting the bass and treble. Once a music CD is burned, you can easily create a custom CD label using Discus from Magic Mouse. This label printing program includes hundreds of background graphics and useful clip art images and supports over 22 different brands of CD labeling paper. If that's not enough, Toast 5 Titanium also includes sample MP3 songs, digital photos from the photographer James Beal, and sample video clips.

Toast 5 Titanium will be available this Spring and will be priced at $99. If you are a Toast 4 Deluxe user, you can upgrade to Toast 5 Titanium for only $59..."


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