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Re: Need someone to do a little cracking
Tried making a NIB. ADT's transfer wouldn't boot. SST+Ciderpress kept telling me the data didn't look right for DOS
sectors. Didn't Copy II Plus have a utility for changing volume numbers??
John.
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:00:29 -0700 (PDT), Nick Westgate <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 3, 2:34�pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>> The machine will "break" almost immediately, then you can examine the
>> code (and data) in the region $8AFA..$8BFB and I can guarantee that you
>> will see what it does to signature check the disk. �(Of course, that
>> means accessing the disk, so there things may get more technical.)
>
>Yes, this (!) signature check is easily circumvented.
>
>The next problem is that the disk assumes volume 255.
>Either that needs to be worked around, or a NIB is preferable.
>
>Cheers,
>Nick.
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