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Re: Need someone to do a little cracking

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Toinet wrote:


On 4 juil, 18:26, Michael <michael.pohore...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thx for the link Antoine -- _lots_ of fun reading those old copy
protection routines!  I never did figure out how to backup my Wings of
Fury disk.

Cool Thread too :-)

Michael
AppleWin Debugger Dev


You are welcome Michael, thank you for your message.

Wings of Fury from Broderbund is a two sided disk with a nice 18-
sector protection. EDD may be the only capable software to back it up
but I am not sure as WoF contains the following list of protections:
- 18-sec protection
- desynchronization (find hidden nibbles on track 0, use them to
decypher some code)
- use of the stack to lose the mean pirate

I like that one ;-) I used WoF routines to create an disk image of the
game but it is not usable, it is just a RAW image which needs to be
converted to 16-sec, one day...

Antoine



18 sectors, eh?
That got me to thinking. That's the same track length as an MS-DOS 2.x floppy disk... I wonder if it's possible to create a hack of DOS 3.3 that uses 16-sector track 0 and 18-sector tracks 1-34, and how reliably it could be used as a read/write OS. (Or even to add an additional track though I don't think any emus support that, even on nib?) 

-uso.