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Re: MECC titles available... anyone want a crack at them?



sirghoul@optonline.net wrote:
John, you know how to reach me ;-)

If some of you want to create NIB images of their MECC software,
please send them to me afterwards. I will then try to deprotect them,
ending in creating a MECChanical deprotection program...

Antoine


<Grin> Yes Antoine, I know how to reach you.
My problem with these is they seem to have a nibble count built-in. Nothing I've found in Compute, Krakowitz, etc,
covers these ProDos versions of MECC, and the information given for the other versions doesn't seem to be enough for me
to do these.

The usual method for dealing with nibble counts is to find the count
routine and disable it.  If that's all that's going on, that will
normalize the disk.

Publishers often used the same or very similar approaches to protection
on several different programs published around the same time, so the
work of deprotecting can often be pretty well leveraged.

-michael

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