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/* 3 Inch Discs Comments from MacDeath */
Some specific moded disk drives could perform special formats that were actually used as copy protection for some games, the most (only?) known exemple being Defender of the Crown on CPC. The french developper for the CPC version [[Brice Rive]] developped this specific method and went on to become UBIsoft copy protection specialist. He produced/coded [[Defender of the Crown]], but also E.X.I.T and copy protection for various UBIsoft prods on CPC.
The story of this copy protection scheme was explained at CPCrulez french forum. The method consisted of moding some specific 3" floppy disk drives models so they could format the 3" floppies in into something like 200ko 200-240ko per sides... Normal unmodified disk drives wouldn't be able to format disk the same way so the datas would need more floppies to be spread on and the copie, while still possible, would ask for many more disk switch and would render the game experience far less enjoyable. Cracked version of Defender of the Crown using 3 sides instead of only 2.
The situation with this 3" format was a dead end. Amstrad went for cheap arrangement in production and adventageous contract so they wouldn't upgrade to DD/HD (720ko per disk) because the disk drives would be too expensive, hence no proper use in larger RAM configuration would be viable, both in PCW or CPC (or speccy+3). So those 8 bit computers couldn't really benefit from upgraded games comparable to 16bit machines in content, and so on.
The nostalgia value from those 3 inchers is always touching anyway.
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