Re: Dark Crystal and Time Zone

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 21 jan, 18:24, EricN <ericn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Issue 31 of Computist has an article on cracking Time Zone.
>
> http://www.computist-project.net/pdfs/hardcore.computist/issue31.pdf
> Page 7
>
> It looks to be a standard nibble count.  You can use their SuperIOB
> program to make an unprotected .dsk image copy in your emulator and
> then write that image to your Apple.
>
> Eric

Hi Eric,
Nibble count was a recurring protection for Sierra programs but as
stated earlier by others, the volume number was also used to determine
the right disk to use ("please insert disk N" where N is the volume of
the disk) and that information is not kept by the DSK format but by
NIBs.

What was offered by the computist article is a way to remove the on-
disk protection (that was important) but that is not sufficient. I
"hate" Sierra games for that :-)

antoine