Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!musjndx From: musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jonathan N. Deitch) Subject: Re: Unprotecting older Apple 2 Game Disks Message-ID: Organization: Georgia State University References: <1993Feb2.145018.59@vtrm01.uucp> <1kn9s8$309@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 04:09:31 GMT Lines: 37 jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) writes: >You might find it fun (maybe even more fun than playing the game >itself) to crack your originals. I used to buy games for two reasons: >to play them and then to crack them. This is how most die hard Apple II programmers learned how to program in assembly language ... I remember vividly re-writing the boot code to Drol so it would work on my //c. As shipped, it was //c unfriendly. I had to first crack it and then re-write it so it would work. >Castle Wolfenstein (the original one, not Beyond) was quite easy to >crack and you only had to modify the program in one or two places >after moving it to DOS 3.3 to get it to work perfectly. I encourage >you to figure out how to crack your own originals--you'll have fun and >learn a lot in the process. There is an absolutely essential utility for this kind of thing called Advancded Demuffin. It's a program that allows you to save the RWTS (Read/ Write Track/Sector) DOS routine from a protected program, then load it into memory with Demuffin and use it to copy the entire game to a standard DOS 3.3 format disk -- allowing you to edit the disk with impunity. Castle Wolfenstein is easy : Save the RWTS, copy it to a DOS 3.3 format disk, then put a nice, fast DOS like Pronto DOS on the disk so the game loads much faster than normal. - Jonathan -- Internet: musjndx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Fidonet: Jonathan Deitch@1:133/411.7 jdeitch@gisatl.fidonet.org Bellnet: 1 - (404) - 261 - 3665 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlanta 1996 !! | Play Pinball !! | Don't Panic ! | "I hate it when I can't --------------------------------------------------| trust my own technology!" "Thrills! Chills! Magic! Prizes!" -- Hurricane | -- Geordi LaForge Gene Roddenberry, Isaac Asimov, Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss, Mel Blanc ... Sigh ...