Beiträge von Parser im Thema „Die Jagd nach den "Weak Bits" - welche Methoden und Tools?“

    Das Kopieren der Originalfloppy mit Transcopy und dem Option Board Deluxe war nicht erfolgreich.

    Ich zitiere mal:

    "From the "I Thought They Couldn't Be Bought" file:

    For you users of the COPYIIPC OPTION BOARD, I just found out some

    disheartening news. I have a legit copy of ALACRITY, a $2000 financial

    software package that works with FRAMEWORK (Ashton-Tate) from a

    company in Canada. Hating copy protection, if I couldn't create a

    unprotected copy, I AT LEAST wanted to be able to make a back up of

    the key disk. But my OPTION BOARD kept either hanging up or dumping

    out during disk write on a certain track, under any setting. Calling

    CP Software resulted in them telling me it's probably my 386, use it

    on an AT. Tried it on an AT Clone (CSS Labs), same result. Another

    call, "it's probably the controller card on your AT is not producing

    tight enough signal, even if it's within spec. If you use it on a

    REAL IBM XT you'll be fine." OK, open cases and swap boards around

    on an IBM XT, no luck, same error. Another (toll) call, "You're using

    software version 4.2? You have the silver dot on the diskette label?

    That's the best we've got, we'll get back to you." Yeah, sure.


    One of my "inside" contacts has done some contract work for Central

    Point Software up in Oregon. He provided me an OLDER version of the

    Option Board software, and told me he'd bet money it'd work, since

    I knew the protection scheme was Superlok 3.0. "OLDER?" "Trust me!"


    He was right. The word is that the owner of Central Point made an

    agreement with the SoftGard/Superlok president that the Option Board

    software schemes he wrote and kept updated would work on AN ORIGINAL

    but not back up A COPY. Some "clever" (?) software publishers are

    thwarting Option Board owners by shipping ORIGINALS that are really

    ONCE-REMOVED OPTION BOARD COPIES. That stinks! Therefor, the

    "pre-agreement" versions of the option board software will still work,

    when the latest version doesn't. If you've got version 3.2 or 2.7,

    hold on to it."


    "The earlier, the better."


    "Hey - Pippi Langstrumpf

    trallari trallahey tralla hoppsasa

    Hey - Pippi Langstrumpf,

    die macht, was ihr gefällt.

    3 x 3 macht 6

    Widdewidde

    Wer will's von mir lernen ?

    Alle groß und klein

    trallalala lad' ich zu mir ein.

    Ich hab' ein Haus,

    ein kunterbuntes Haus

    ein Äffchen und ein Pferd,

    die schauen dort zum Fenster raus.

    Ich hab' ein Haus,

    ein Äffchen und ein Pferd,

    und Jeder, der uns mag,

    kriegt unser 1 x 1 gelehrt.


    2 x 3 macht 4

    Widdewiddewitt

    und Drei macht Neune !!

    Wir machen uns die Welt

    Widdewidde wie sie uns gefällt ....


    Hey - Pippi Langstrumpf

    trallari trallahey tralla hoppsasa

    Hey - Pippi Langstrumpf,

    die macht, was ihr gefällt.


    3 x 3 macht 6

    Widdewidde

    Wer will's von uns lernen ?

    Alle groß und klein

    trallalala lad' ich zu uns ein."