Re: SAM

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

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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