---------Dr. Peet's Talk/Writer--------
-------------ABC Discovery-------------
A 4am crack                  2015-10-17
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Name: Dr. Peet's Talk/Writer ABC
  Discovery
Version: 09.09.87
Genre: educational
Year: 1987
Publisher: Hartley Courseware
Media: single-sided 5.25-inch floppy
OS: custom with DOS 3.3 bootloader
Previous cracks: none
Identical cracks:
  #451 Antonyms/Synonyms 1
  #420 Fact or Opinion
  #419 Who What When Where
  #351 Home Row
  #154 Reading for Meaning Level 2
  many other Hartley Courseware titles

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               Chapter 0
 In Which Various Automated Tools Fail
          In Interesting Ways


COPYA
  immediate disk read error

Locksmith Fast Disk Backup
  unable to read any track

EDD 4 bit copy (no sync, no count)
  works

Copy ][+ nibble editor
  modified address and data epilogues
  ("DA AA EB" instead of "DE AA EB")

Disk Fixer
  ["O" -> "Input/Output Control"]
    set Address Epilogue to "DA AA EB"
    set Data Epilogue to "DA AA EB"
  all tracks readable
  T00 -> looks like a DOS 3.3 RWTS
  no sign of the rest of DOS though
  no disk catalog on any track

Why didn't COPYA work?
  modified epilogue bytes (every track)

Why didn't Locksmith FDB work?
  modified epilogue bytes (every track)

EDD worked. What does that tell us?
  no half or quarter tracks
  almost certainly no nibble check
  (just structural changes to epilogue)

Next steps:

  1. capture RWTS with AUTOTRACE
  2. convert disk to standard format
     with Advanced Demuffin
  3. patch RWTS to read standard format

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               Chapter 1
In Which We Attempt To Use The Original
    Disk As A Weapon Against Itself


[S6,D1=original disk]
[S6,D2=blank disk]
[S5,D1=my work disk]

]PR#5
CAPTURING BOOT0
...reboots slot 6...
...reboots slot 5...
SAVING BOOT0
CAPTURING BOOT1
...reboots slot 6...
...reboots slot 5...
SAVING BOOT1
SAVING RWTS

]BRUN ADVANCED DEMUFFIN 1.5

["5" to switch to slot 5]

["R" to load a new RWTS module]
  --> At $B8, load "RWTS" from drive 1

["6" to switch to slot 6]

["C" to convert disk]

                 --v--

ADVANCED DEMUFFIN 1.5    (C) 1983, 2014
ORIGINAL BY THE STACK    UPDATES BY 4AM
=======PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE=======
TRK:...................................
+.5:
    0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF012
SC0:...................................
SC1:...................................
SC2:...................................
SC3:...................................
SC4:...................................
SC5:...................................
SC6:...................................
SC7:...................................
SC8:...................................
SC9:...................................
SCA:...................................
SCB:...................................
SCC:...................................
SCD:...................................
SCE:...................................
SCF:...................................
=======================================
16SC $00,$00-$22,$0F BY1.0 S6,D1->S6,D2

                 --^--

[S6,D1=demuffin'd copy]

]PR#6
...grinds...

My copy can't read itself yet. This is
not unusual.

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               Chapter 2
 In Which We Remove All Traces Of Copy
Protection Using An Automated Tool That
   I Wrote For Just Such An Occasion


[S6,D1=demuffin'd copy]
[S5,D1=my work disk]

]PR#5
]BRUN PDP

T00,S03,$91 change DA to DE
T00,S03,$35 change DA to DE
T00,S06,$AE change DA to DE
T00,S02,$9E change DA to DE

Quod erat liberandum.

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A 4am crack                     No. 474
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