Which was the All time best copier software?

[kipper2k]

Hi,
I'm curious to know peoples thoughts as to which software (with or without dongle) was the best overall copier for Amiga games ?

[DH]

X-copy Pro

Used it relentlessly for many years and never looked at anything else. It was my preference only and to be fair, I couldn't really say any copying software was the best

[Steve]

X-copy pro or TNG? Personally I never liked TNG. Any particular version? Anyone know the differences between the various releases? Which was best??

[DamienD]

Thread moved from the "prb.Games" section to here.

@kipper2k; you may also want to take a peek at this thread

[Paul_s]

Workbench CLI copy command

[Amiga1992]

I don't know what was BEST but I used X-Copy all the time like most everyone I know. As long as the disks were not copyprotected we had a field day.

[lost_loven]

xcopy and syncro express 3 with dongle all i ever used and before xcopy i used raw copy 1.3

lost

[DoogUK]

Xcopy pro

[Rabbit80]

I don't think I ever saw an original copy of x-copy pro...

[DH]

Nor did I

[Mad-Matt]

I Baught it ..all those years ago I expect the box is in the loft somewhere

[paranoid]

I used X-Copy mainly, but I remember Zoom being a real pain to copy and finally The Nibbler (I think..) was the program that finally managed to copy it. Funny, I don't remember the game, just trying to copy it.

I forget what hardware copier I had.. It was made from a schematic. I didn't have it long; ironically, it was stolen at a copy party.

[PWLM]

Nibbler was slightly better at copying that XCopy from memory but a bugger to use. XCopy was my pref for run-of-the-Heather-Mills stuff.

[sittingduck]

Been a long time since I used X-Copy on my Amiga, but I seem to recall, that my favourite version was X-Copy III, although most of my friends used X-Copy Pro. The reason for me using III was that when using killsys I could copy a complete disk in one go on my 1 MB Amiga 500. When I used killsys with Xcopy Pro I could read 79 tracks and then had to pop in the destination disk (I only had the internal drive) before reading the final track and then writing this single track to the destination. At least, that's how I recall it was.

[stevsurv]

Ah yes, I do remember those days of xcopy. Back in the late 80's early 90's I belonged to a Amy club where we met once a week and swapped Amy games utes etc. Xcopy was the prefered choice of copier.

Some of the guys had compilation disks of all the different versions of xcopy. I remember one group hacked version of xcopy which read tracks up to 89!

While using it I was told off for copying up to track 89 and told that anything after track 81 would be reading and writing on plastic and metal floppy shutter!

[frank_b]

Superduper was my favourite. It multitasked too

Frank

[dirkies]

first back in 1987-1988 I used White Lightning 1.1 & for the hard ones I used ACopy
then I used XCopy Pro in various flavours and Nibblecopy for hard ones
but I also loved over the many years RattleCopy 1.3 and later the much improved RattleCopy PRO 4.0 from Dutch demo programmer Rattlehead, great smooth interface (that megasmooth scroll!!) and had this neat unique retry function for re-copying only the bad sectors, so with dodgy discs you could copy them eventually by hammering the spacebar until all red sectors were copied as green. All other copiers you had to select manually the individual bad ones to retry. It also had nibblecopy, track81 support, ramdisk, multi-target, autodetection based on write protection tab of floppy to know where you were copying from, sync, antivirus and a quickerase function. It even showed with white sector blocks when it was copying empty tracks, so neat (green=ok, red=bad, blue=nibble, white=empty, grey=not read)! Too bad it did not work on my A4000/060 anymore.
You can't even find info on this little copygem on google, strange...
Anyone can up it to the zone??? Would be nice to see it back for nostalgic sakes!

But this topic sounds more like what copier we used most, not necessarily what was the best...

[dirkies]

did find this on the web on Rattlecopy
http://members.quicknet.nl/p.van.campen/rcindex.htm
http://arabuusimiehet.com/break/amig...s.php?id=11948
at least something!

[DH]

I don't think anyone can say witch one was/is the best, once again it's down to user preference

I also vaguely remember using Nibblecopy for the same reasons as yourself but I can't remember much about it as the main one I used was X-Copy Pro

[DH]

Is this RattleCopy 4.0

http://arabuusimiehet.com/break/amig...s.php?id=11948

Edit: Click on download then backup 2009-04-19 then Amiga 2009-04-19 r.rar where it should be found