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| From | Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.arch |
| Subject | Re: older copy protection... |
| Date | 2025-05-19 09:08 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <100eldv$1gdmo$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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" >>> >>> The disk has been cloned on the Applesauce. >> >> 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"
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older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-05-13 15:55 -0700
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-05-14 16:04 -0700
Re: older copy protection... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-05-14 16:37 -0700
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-05-18 01:21 -0700
Re: older copy protection... John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-19 02:09 +0000
Re: older copy protection... Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-05-19 09:08 +0200
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 21:13 -0700
Re: older copy protection... Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-05 17:09 +0100
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-06-05 14:52 -0700
Re: older copy protection... mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-06-05 22:35 +0000
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 12:33 -0700
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-06-05 14:49 -0700
Re: older copy protection... "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 12:34 -0700
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