Re:Breaking copy protection on a 1983 game for Apple 2
by ddingus on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:29PM
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Lol, yeah.
That was my first "crack." I happened to run the game on an Atari computer, which makes sounds during disk I/O. I could hear the sectors, hear the fail, retry, then remaining sectors load.
So, count em up, open the door, listen for fail, close, go!
Didn't even need a single hex value to accomplish.
After that, I got into it on an Apple. Reading this brings back memories. That particular machine is a lot of fun, and it is fun because almost everything is software. Totally open.
That was my first "crack." I happened to run the game on an Atari computer, which makes sounds during disk I/O. I could hear the sectors, hear the fail, retry, then remaining sectors load.
So, count em up, open the door, listen for fail, close, go!
Didn't even need a single hex value to accomplish.
After that, I got into it on an Apple. Reading this brings back memories. That particular machine is a lot of fun, and it is fun because almost everything is software. Totally open.