This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: What is this System? Help!
Article: 8432 of alt.hackers From: a00563@giant.mindlink.net (Dave Kirsch) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: What is this System? Help! Date: 11 Aug 1995 21:48:25 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., New Westminster, BC Canada Lines: 35 Approved: zoid@mindlink.net Message-ID: 40gj79$e6n@fountain.mindlink.net NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net Status: RO
In article <40g73l$ipj@leia.ursinus.edu>, Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@leia.ursinus.edu> wrote: >>>>telnet ursprep >Trying... Connected to URSPREP.URSINUS.EDU. > > > >User Access Verification > >Password: >Password: >% Bad passwords Looks like a Cisco router (try http://www.cisco.com). ObHack: Ah, the good ole days of hacking Apple II games. A friend of mine bought Robotron for the Apple II (great game--one of the few you could just totally zen out on, right up there with Lode Runner). Of course, the disk was copy protected. So, I decide to break it and copy it. Boot game. Just as the title screen loads up, hit Reset twice. I'm now in Cassette mode. Poke around with the monitor (call -151) and learn that the copy protection is just a hacked DOS 3.2! Which the game is *still* sitting in memory, boot a normal DOS 3.3 disk. BSAVE (binary save) the game right out of RAM onto the disk. Turn machine off, back on. BRUN the game right from disk. Wham! There it goes. So, not only did I copy the game, I also converted it to a normal binary on a regular disk. I kept a copy of Robotron on my Bank Street Writer (lame word processor for the Apple II) disk. :) -- /// Dave 'Zoid' Kirsch __ | http://mindlink.net/zoid a00563@giant.mindlink.net \/ | SysAdm - MIND LINK! Communications Corp. Fighting Games FTP Archive Maintainer: ftp://brawl.mindlink.net/pub
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