Tony Lisanti wrote:
Many of these came from stolen media. Usually at Applefest shows. I remember one person who stole such a disk that had similar material on it. Source codes to the game, some copy protection information and so on. I don't recall the game, but it had something to do with building your own superhero's or something like that. I don't think it ever made to the light of day.
In this case, it was the commercially packaged disk. It's fun to check deprotected disks for "undeletable" files, since most early software firms were 1- or 2-person operations there were often little "leaks" in the process. -michael
On Mon, 02 May 2005 18:45:52 -0700, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:I found a disk that has the source for "Space Harrier" for the IIgs.It's always fun to find things like this. I recall my amazement years ago upon finding on a distributed program disk, as files that could be "undeleted", the source code for the nibble-counting copy protection scheme that the program's author had licensed from a third party! ;-) There is much to be said for creating a "clean" distribution master prior to going to disk duplication. -michael
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