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Re: Mastery Development Software Copy

On Mar 2, 12:41 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Henry wrote:
> > Hey Michael.
>
> >>You're looking for SST (Saltine's Super Transcopy).
>
> > That's it.  I forgot the name.  Thanks!
>
> >>SST will make two disks, which can be combined into a single .nib
> >>image on a PC using CiderPress.
>
> > Ah.  Okay, I get it now.  It's not every day I work with copy protected
> > software. ;-)  What a pain!
>
> Actually, reverse-engineering the copy protection on games was,
> for many, much more challenging and enjoyable than playing the
> game.  ;-)
>
> -michael
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Almost a game within itself...
Well, as Henry mentioned before, my main PC was down (I hate
MicroSoft!!) and wasn't able to test this stuff out until early this
morning.  I have tested out everything possible that I
understand...and somethings I just dont understand and probably will
take years to do.  One thing is for certain, the KADASH.con file is
correct (i double checked its accuracy against commputist) and it just
doesnt work.
Also, the super iob program I was using was the startkit2, since I
can't make a bootable copy of siob1, siob2 or siob3 which i downloaded
from the computist project website.  I was however able to figure out
how to load and hold and mend the CON file since it wasn't in a text
format and was in the applesoftbasic format.  Still a no-go. :-(

Also, one last thing i found was that there is some sort of ADVANCED
COPYA program that might copy it...but I don't have that program and
really don't understand how to make it either.
Slowly but surely, some of this stuff is coming back...but its mostly
forgotten making this almost impossible to really crack this.
If anyone has anyother suggestions, please let me know.  I am totally
burnt out at this point.
As a last resort, which I am very reluctant to do since they will
probably kill the disk while xraying it, I am willing to mail out my
disk (maybe media-mail) for anyone that is willing to take a crack at
it.