Oh, wow... now my mind is blown for real.
May I ask how you know that?
Does this mean that the person actually cracked this game recently just to post such a write up?
May I ask how you know that?
Does this mean that the person actually cracked this game recently just to post such a write up?
Right after he put out the crack, I was working on a (hard-drive friendly) port to ProDOS based on it.
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Do you know how they do it? I mean, in order to crack these games, they need to have the original physical floppy, don't they? Or do they have a digital version of the protected floppy with all its weird sectoring and data on it?.
I've only cracked relatively simple stuff, but working in an emulator is a LOT easier than working on real hardware. In an emulator you can freeze the system and inspect both the computer and the disk drive, set breakpoints, modify memory, and so on, and it's totally undetectable to the protection code.
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