Re: SAM

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4uvbdc$s3d@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Will Baguhn (wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>(crunch!)
>: >Are we talking about Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) ?
>: >
>: >
>: Software Animated Mouth.  Fun program.  I remember aceing all the
>: junior high computer classes, because a few of my projects used it...
>
>: (slapped Diversi-Dos, SAM, and some hi-res graphics together when
>: everyone else was drawing dinky stuff in lo-res.... yah, it was
>: fun.  I watched about a dozen jaws drop audibly onto the floor
>: when my disk booted faster and was way cooler than anyone else's...)
>
>Yikes!  Someone who actually used Diversi-DOS?!
>I tried that a couple of times, then got rid of it 'cause it caused some
>of my cooler programs to break.  Plus, it didn't give "real" error
>messages.  I generally used Super-DOS until I finally found Pronto-DOS.
>
>So far, I have found only one program...KERMIT-65...which MUST be run
>under DOS 3.3...it breaks under Pronto-DOS, and though it is supposed to
>work under ProDOS, I never had any luck with it that way either.
>
>--Dave Althoff, ][.
>
>(In my high school, the big trick was to write password programs...in
>BASIC.  Which I would routinely crack by hanging on ^C during boot, or by
>booting another disk thus gaining full access anyway.  Then I wrote my
>own:  hacked up a "boot message" program so that the password request
>interrupted the boot process.  Then I moved the directory to Track $04 so
>that the other major crack method also failed.  Of course, that was just a
>demo project, but everyone else wondered what I had done that I could
>crack their disks but they couldn't crack mine...  8-) )
>
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Yah.... I remember changing some of the magic bytes so my disks were
fine... if you booted from them.  Otherwise they gave i/o errors
amazingly.... (thanks, hardcore!  issue 1!  still got it!)

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