Digital Integration protection this is really a user unfriendly protection. the protection sheme of the original release is extremely picky with the exact replay speed of the audio signal. if your tape does not load try to slow down the tape player a little bit or try to speed up your Specci slightly. Loading the first protected block looks like a load failure even when it loads correctly. really crap idea! it seems to load actually nothing, when i look at the Z80 during loading, probably just does some testing on the signal to detect an illegal copy. Loading the second protected block, the main data, shows no difference between synchronizing on the pilot tone and loading data, so you only know that it is propperly loading when the screen attributes are loaded and reveal the hopefully propperly loaded screen. Also it seems that it loads only into an original ZX Spectrum, the 128k models all seem to reset. Finally, it has a Lenslock protection... This is a real example of games which load better when cracked. [kio]