"Ernest" wrote in message news:_4Tz9.8365$Zp3.873@sccrnsc04... > > "Ernest" wrote in message > > news:KXzz9.1760$8S6.22325@sccrnsc01... > > > Has anyone found a way to keep using this network software. > > > > > > "Redskull" wrote in message > news:WRIz9.12512$eX.30299@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > How about uploading some disk images somewhere so > > we could have a go at it? > > I can do that. Please do. Here's a crack posted to comp.sys.apple2 last year for version 7.4. I have no idea if this works. Unfortunately the poster dropped off the face of the earth :(. - Liam **************************************** From: mister_boffo@hotmail.com (Mister Boffo) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2,comp.sys.apple2 Subject: HACKED IT! (Mastery Development) Message-ID: <3b452bca.69662534@news.mw.centurytel.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 136 Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 09:01:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.230.218.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@centurytel.net X-Trace: feed.centurytel.net 994323743 207.230.218.82 (Thu, 05 Jul 2001 04:02:23 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 04:02:23 CDT Organization: CenturyTel.Net A. REGISTERING MASTERY DEVELOPMENT FOR FREE WARNING: I've only tried this on MY hardware. I have no idea if this will work for you. It could even be potentially destructive. But, if your system is ALREADY dead, then no loss if this screws up, right? Hack peformed on Version 7.4, Copyright 1999 1. At the screen complaining about your expired year of service, please send money, upgrade, etc etc, press Control-Reset. The computer beeps twice and drops to the monitor "*" prompt 2. Type: 4C18G and press {RETURN} 3. Drive light flickers - it updated your license! 4. Press Control-OpenApple-Reset to reboot 5. It WORKS! Boots right up, "Start the network" Yeah, err, I feel a little guilty about the above. I sorta hacked this in about 2 hours. My aunt who gave me this dead MD hardware ditched her class-lab of 12 Apple IIe's because the server expired in, and with the company gone, it had been dead for more than a year, just sitting there in her classroom. They pitched all the machines -- and the student cards -- about a month ago. Probably went to the scrapyard. If I had acted a little sooner here... :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( Registration Hacking notes: At the registration screen, hit Ctrl-Reset Ctrl-B to get BASIC.. write a tiny program.. Raw text dump from Decimal 2048 to 49151 shows... Decimal 18100: text "licensing fee is PAST DUE." Decimal 19363: Just past keycode entry text 4B26G = prints KEYCODE 4B59 -> JSR 4065 = ENTER RESPONSE 4065 = ENTERING CODE 4081 = DISPLAY "Enter key code" Weird code masking of entry point. Get addr at $04, push it (PHA), get addr at $05, push it again, RTS jumps to secret pushed address + 1. Neat! 04.05:70 4B 4b71 = ENTERING CODE YET *** Entered keyCode goes into mem locations: 4C2B+X 4BE1 checks, rejects my typing "... 1 more try..." 4E85 = BOOT WHICH SLOT (oops corrupts mem, reboot..) 4C18 = drive access.. writes CONFIRMED ACCESS CODE! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - B. TO DELETE MASTERY DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM PASSWORD 1. Remove Teacher network card 2. Turn on MD hard drive. 3. Boot from a 5.25" ProDOS disk with BASIC on it. 4. At the BASIC prompt, type: PREFIX /M3/PARMS RENAME PASS,PASS.OLD NEW SAVE PASS 5. Reinstall Teacher network card, boot network 6. When prompted for the Teacher password, just press {RETURN} -- you're IN! - - - - - Won't let me set date before 1999. I used Jan 1, 1999 12:00 AM... - - - - - Mastery Development system tells me: SYSTEM DRIVE: SCSI ID 4, 532.6 MEGS Size Used /M1 - Mastery Dev 32.7 28.6 /M2 - MD Backup 32.7 28.6 /M3 - MD Data 30.7 4.0 /U1 - User #1 32.2 0.0 /U2 - User #2 32.2 0.0 /L1 - Locker #1 31.7 2.4 /L1 - Locker #2 31.7 1.8 /L1 - Locker #3 31.7 0.0 /L1 - Locker #4 31.7 0.0 - - - - - Snarfing files off the drive may be harder than I thought, because the process is exceptionally technical for installing new software. Here's what it asks for "advanced install" of software: 1. ProDOS or DOS 3.3? DOS 3.3 2. How many disk SIDES (1-99)? 1 3. Does it need a DATA disk on the network? YES 4. Enter volume number of Boot Volume (all subsequent volumes will be assigned consecutive numbers following the boot volume number): 254 5. Enter name of startup program: HELLO 6. Launch program with RUN, BRUN, or EXEC? R 7. Specify minimum amount of memory needed on student workstation for this program to run: 48K/64K/128K/256+K: 48K 8. Set network [write] delay 1-None 5-Forever: 1 9: select write access (enable/ignore/disable): D 10:Run in GS Fast or Slow mode? S 11.Require system password or free access? Free 12.Printer delay (long/short/doesn'tprint): Long 13:Enter name of program to appear in menu: TEST 14:Does it need multiple menu entries? NO Whoa! Okay, I do see a method for hacking it. Format a disk without any OS, write a short 1-sector boot program, and use a disk editor to fill all the empty sectors with text labels with the track and sector info for that sector. Install the disk, and now you have a tool for probing the installed volume files, to look for those labels in those sectors.. (this may not work if it doesn't copy "free" sectors) *fools with it some more* :) -Mr. Boffo