Sujet : Re: older copy protection...
De : terje.mathisen (at) *nospam* tmsw.no (Terje Mathisen)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 19. May 2025, 08:08:48
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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John Levine wrote:
According to Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>:
"It was impossible to create a disk image without this hardware"
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The disk has been cloned on the Applesauce.
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Thanks! I need to ponder on this. Thanks again.
The usual approach was to patch the program to disable the code
that checked the copy protection.
The usual "protection" against this was to distribute the checking code across both time and space, only loading/decrypting the next part after verification.
Terje
-- - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"