How To Copy Those Blasted Discs

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· 15 Mar 2019

Before I Start, I'd Just Like To Say That Any Info Taken From This Page Should At Least Credit Me For This Amazing Discovery.
-Thank'z - Michael CuE, CuBiCo 1999.

BRIEF HISTORY LESSON:-
When Sega Were Developing The Dreamcast, They Needed A New Kind Of Storage Medium. They Chose Yamaha To Come Up With The Drive And Disc. Yamaha Chose The CD Format For Many Reason'z:

It Proved To Be Very Popular With Consumer'z ie:PLAYSTATION
It Is Very Inexpensive To Make A CD And Package It
It Give'z Developer'z Huge Amount'z Of Space To Play Around With

But There Is A Problem, CD'z Can Be Copied Very Easily. That'z Why Yamaha Chose To Make It A 1GigaByte Disc, So That People Like You And I Could Not Copy Them. We All Know That A Standard CD-Recordable Can Hold Between 650-680 MegaByte'z Of Recorded Data. As Stupid As SEGA Are They Agreed To Use Yamaha'z New CD Medium For This Reason. Little Did SEGA Japan Know That Yamaha Had Teamed Up Some Time Back With A Software Group Called CeQuadrat To Release A Software Bundle With Every New Yamaha CD-Writer. The Thing Is That CeQuadrat Had Also Found A Way Of Storing 1Gbyte+ On A Standard Disc Using Some Type Of New Writing Method, Which Could Be Deployed By Most Yamaha Writer'z. So If Dreamcast Uses A 1Gbyte Disc For It'z Drive, And Yamaha Writer'z Can Now Write 1Gbyte+, Then Surely We Have Won.

CRUCIAL INFO YOU NEED TO KNOW:

Detailed Info On PacketCD 3.0+

Basic Info On CeQuadrat PacketCD 3.0

CeQuadrat Announces PacketCD 3.0

Aachen/Palo Alto, March 10, 1998

CeQuadrat's new Packet Writing solution doubles the capacitiy of CD-R/RW CeQuadrat today announced a new version of its UDF packet writing software "PacketCD". The most important feature of this new version is transparent, real-time data compression and de-compression, yielding in more capacity and higher transfer speeds for packet writing.
Using a very fast compression algorythm, more data can be transfered to the CD-Recorder, virtually transforming a 2x CD recorder into a 4x drive. PacketCD 3.0 will also double the capacity of a CD-R or a CD-RW to more than 1 GB. CDs written with PacketCD 3.0 can be read back in any Windows 95 system*, using the CeQuadrat driver** which is provided on every CD written and finalised with PacketCD.

About PacketCD
PacketCD provides easy and safe drive letter access to CD-R or CD-RW media. Using incremental packet writing PacketCD saves users from dreaded "Buffer underrun" errors, and works completely in the background: A CD-Recorder looks and works just like any other removable medium. On CD-RW media, files can be individually erased, and a sophisticated defect management prevents from loss of data when being written to damaged sectors.
PacketCD uses the industry wide accepted OSTA UDF (Universal Disc Format) filesystem standard, which is also used for DVD. The UDF file system is an integral part of new operating systems, such as Windows 98* and Mac OS 8.

For information on CeQuadrat's entire line of products please visit our web site at www.cequadrat.com or call (650)843-3780.

CuBiCo Note:-
* Windows CE Compatible, Via Patch.
** MANY Group'z Out There Are Competent Enough To Port This To Windows CE?

WHAT DO I NEED?:-

First Of All You Will Need A CD-Writer That Is Equivalent To A Yamaha 400At Or Above. -Easily Obtainable.
Second You Will Need A Copy Of CeQuadrat's Latest PacketCD Software. -That Was The Catch!
Here Is The Only Reference I'll Give You - I Have My Reason'z!http://www.cequadrat.com
Visit My Link'z Section For Maybe More Useful Link'z ....

HOW CAN YOU HELP ME THEN?

Simple; Got Any Info That Maybe I Left Out In Here? Maybe Some Feedback SOLELY On This Subject. Maybe You're A Developer And Could Help With SomeHacked File'z/Patche'z I May Need In The Future. Got A Site That Could Be A Good Link For This Topic? These Type Of Thing'z Could Speed Up The R&D For This Truly Amazing Discovery. Can You Set Up An IRC Channel? Can You Provide A Link To My Page?