AN A.N.N. REVIEW BY that Wizard from the Wild West 
Joe Waters (Falcon@Federation.hack.com) 
Albuquerque, NM 87111 
 
Joe Waters who will be doing articles, reviews, etc. on a regular basis for A.N.N. has been programming since he was in the 7th grade and he brings much experience with him.
 
 
TITLE:  Veriback 2.0 
PRICE:  $8.95 U.S. 
MEDIA:  Flippy DDP/disk 
SOURCE:  Practical Programs

     Veriback is another commercial copy program, written in 
SmartBASIC and saved with FastRun for speed loading.  The program 
comes in two versions, one with a standard 20K copy buffer (for 
those who still have one disk drive) and a second version with an 
82K buffer that takes advantage of the standard Coleco memory 
expander.  While the program runs at BASIC speed (slightly slower 
than MMSG's Backup+ 3.0), it has a few features not found in most 
of the other copy programs on the market, the most significant of 
which is a built-in verification routine.  The system checks the 
data on the target media for errors after copying, checking for 
bad blocks and other transmission errors.  This program *will* 
copy correctly between standard DDPs, flippy DDPs, and disks.  I 
havn't seen any other copy program that will copy flippy DDPs 
correctly (though I must admit I havn't been looking for one, I 
still have seen quite a few and have been unable to find one that 
includes options for flippy DDPs), and in that respect this 
program is also unique.  The program also includes "recopy 
options" which allow you to make multiple copies of the file in 
memory (this works best with the 64K board), thus you can make 
multiple copies of the same source media quicker, because you 
won't need to read the source in each time, just the first time. 
Hard to explain, but a nice feature.
     If this isn't enough, there's also an added incentive:with 
every copy of Veriback 2.0, Practical Programs includes a FREE 
copy of SmartBASIC 1.5, Multi-Loader, Pro-Load and Pro-Copy. 
That package in and of itself is worth the $8.95 price, so you 
are actually getting something akin to a "2 for the price of 1" 
sale.  All in all, a good deal.
 
 
DDPs, flippy DDPs, and disks.  I 
havn't seen any other copy program that will copy flippy DDPs 
correctly (though I 
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