Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu and Sibelius

>
> Op 13 feb. 2017, om 10:51 heeft Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:
>
> In article <C90FD608-A990-467C-944C-A665E7AB0914@carlanieuwenhuis.nl>,
> Carla Nieuwenhuis <piano@carlanieuwenhuis.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>
>> I tried this a long time ago but Sibelius is protected. You need the key
>> floppy to bind the software to your harddisc or something like that. I
>> couldn't get it to work.
>
>> Peter v.d. Vos
>
> Did you try making an image file of your original HD on which Sibelius was
> installed and using that as a HD with RPCEmu?
>
> I can see that having to use a floppy disc to enable an install would be
> problematic! But I'm thinking of when you start with a HD which has
> Sibelius installed and working and clone that to a file with a tool like
> 'dd' or suitable equivalent that captures every detail of the HD. Then use
> that image as a RPCEmu 'hard disc'.
>
> Am I correct in understanding that:
>
> A) Once you have installed onto a HD Sibelius *doesn't* require you to keep
> using the key floppy? i.e. That the install then runs having found the
> relevant 'installed' pattern on the HD.
>
> B) That you could make a backup of the HD in case it failed. Then the
> backup would work?

It is coming back again, it was a long time ago.

What I found was that it had something to do with timestamps of some files. If you 'Stamped' the !Boot directory your Sibelius copy became corrupt (but could be restored using the floppy).

If you make a backup of your !Boot directory you could restore the installation yourself.

I don't know for sure but my RPCEmulator was not very stable in the beginning (on my Mac when I was testing) and rewriting the !Boot directory did give all kind of problems.

An other thing is that Sibelius needs a 16 colour display and that didn't work very well in the beginning.

But, times changes. Maybe it could work now.


Peter


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