Re: DLM, MECC, TLC, educational software with copyprotection

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 21, 6:32 pm, lyricalnanoha
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> I used to have a ton of this stuff.  Only a few of the programs I've had
> were ever cracked and uploaded to Asimov, though I've seen more lately (it
> took years for someone to upload In Search of the Most Amazing Thing >:P)
>
> ...this is mostly for the sake of nostalgia, but also because I've
> acquired an interest in *tweaking* these disks.  I'd like to try to
> acquire unmodified, or at most just ademuf'd (i.e., the DOS is changed,
> the files are not) images of various eduware I can't find on Asimov...
>
> I've found a bunch of the DLM games there, though all "tro'd", and some
> appear to be BASIC wrapped in binary. (Yes, that's right - BASIC wrapped
> in BIN.)  I'd like to try to reconstruct them as single files (as I have,
> apart from the logos which weren't on the disk, for a couple of the games
> already).  - I might even put some of these on their own Apple Crunch
> collection.
>
> I'm also interested in making my own collection of some of the various
> games on the Elementary disks. (Naturally this would go online!)  Some
> sources seem to claim OREGON is on disk 6, but that one hasn't been
> ripped. (I have 4, 7, 9 and 10.)
>
> Also...still trying to find Juggles' Rainbow/Juggles' Butterfly lol (I
> remember the former name but when I used it later on the PC it had the
> latter name)...
>
> -uso.

I found an original copy-protected disk for DLM Alien Addition, and
ripped it to a .nib using SST.  It's in Asimov's incoming directory
now (along with some other goodies I found), but I can e-mail it to
you directly if you like.

I'm guessing that the cracked versions you mention finding on Asimov
are the ones I uploaded about a year ago (six games on a single
disk).  The "Shogun" fellow mentioned in the crack intros is my dad.