PIRATES-GS --- codewheel protection

[buggie@callisto.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

I have had PIRATES-GS for several years, but have not used it much.  Mine 
is the original with disk, manual, box, even the small extra folders such 
as maps.

Using it again, I realize why I never use it much ---- this is a piece of 
software that is loaded so heavily with copy protection that the user is 
discouraged from even using it.

Needless to say, PIRATES-GS will not upload to a hard drive.   You are 
stuck, using the original disk with no backup,  holding the manual open 
to pages 35 and 36 to apply the codewheel.   This is a _hassle_! 

It has an intricate copy-protection scheme, an 
exclusive wierd version of 
Prodos, _and also_ a manual codewheel scheme (You must use the manual to 
answer the question, "In month/year, where was the silver train."

Several softkeys are listed in COMPUTIST magazine, but these are more 
complicated than the usual simple sector-edits.

The upshot of this is, does anyone have a smoothly deprotected version 
of PIRATES-GS?  Hard-drive loadable, but especially with the codewheel 
password bypassed?

I am willing to mail my original disk or some of the inserts that can 
with the box as evidence that I am holding the original.

Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu