Re: Will Trade GS Cracks!

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Jason A. Gibb wrote:

> I'm in the process of archiving my GS software, but I still have a few
> copy-protected games. Is there anyone who has the procedures for
> removing the protection from these:
> 
>   Task Force
>   Alien Mind
>   Tomahawk
>   Dream Zone
>   Hardball!
>   Tower of Myraglen
>   Great Western Shootout
>   Immortal
> 
> I'm hoping for System 6-compatible, HD installable cracks if possible, but
> I would settle for a simple disk copy procedure.
> 
> (For the record, these are all original, 100% legal copies that I want to
> backup for archival purposes only. I consider piracy detestable, but I also
> consider copy protection an unnecessary inconvenience.)
Ditto.
Except in my case it is Arkanoid II. There's actually an interesting 
story there:
I originally had an illegal copy of Arkanoid II on my hard drive.  
However, some kind friends gave a stack of old games off their GS to me, 
one of them happening to be Arkanoid II.  In a flash or moral integrity, 
I erased Arkanoid II, along with all of my other illegal games stored on 
the drive.  However, re-installing Arkanoid II to the drive became a 
problem. I found something called Arkanoid.Cheat at ground which offered 
a de-protect patch to allow for hard drive installation, but it didn't 
work for me. Does anyone know how I could easily allow arkanoid II to be 
transferable to my hard drive.

On a similar note, is there a program which can run images of floppies 
off the hard drive on a GS.  This would be a great way to keep all of 
those FTA demos without having to sacrifice any of my floppies (with a 
270 megabyte hard drive, space is just not an issue).

Thanks in advance,
Toby Reiter