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

Regarding the crack of Blazing Paddles in issue 31 of computist, the
missing information is "sync" as it was protected that way:
- I read sector X on track A
- I move the head to track B (and sometimes to other tracks) and read
a sector
If I have an original disk, then I should get sector Y or Z. If not, I
have a copy.
That is the on-disk protection method used there and it was not
described. The crack just removes the check, it still contains the
sync routine. A better crack would have been to remove calling the on-
disk protection routine.

A similar protection was used on Video Vegas, see my thread on
http://www.hackzapple.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=163

On the other answer from Linards regarding the volume number: yes,
setting the volume number in the filename and having an emulator
handling it, then it would be sufficient and prevent you from using a
NIB image.

antoine