Re: How to prevent My AppleSoft Basic Program Listing

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Monday, December 31, 2012 6:18:16 AM UTC-6, Antoine Vignau wrote:
> I agree with Bill B.
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> On the other hand, it adds fun to my cracking time ;-)
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> av

If it's an applesoft basic program I can crack it without even booting it up in an emulator because I have already written an applesoft de-tokenizer that can take the file and produce the full listing in plain text.  (the source for this is in the Jace source tree but there's no front-end to access it.)

It seems a pointless waste of time to engage in software protection on a platform that is this well-understood.  Also since this platform is mainly used by veterans who know most of the tricks, it's also totally absurd to think you're going to pull one over on us.  ;-)  Now, if we were still distributing programs via cassette tapes it would be a different story.

-B