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Re: A little trick went horribly wrong (removing crackscreen)
- Subject: Re: A little trick went horribly wrong (removing crackscreen)
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 06 Jan 2005 23:57:12 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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Moll wrote:
>I replaced "DISKMAN" with "EJTLNBO", and it crashed.
>
>I suspect there was a hacked checksumming code in there, or something
>weird. Being that it's data, it shouldn't be code... but you never know...
People who cracked disks were pretty proprietary about
who did it, and could be expected to make it harder than
a sector edit to remove their "bylines".
-michael
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