Re: Possibly the most copy protected Apple program I've seen

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Jayson Smith (nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net) wrote:
: Actually, the unrecoverable disk error is an actual disk error.  The
: program, in all its copy protected glory, can't read it, so it's a genuine
: disk error.  That's too bad too, as it is in an Applesoft program.  While I
: have used a DOS patch which keeps trying to read a bad sector until it gets
: what it thinks is a good read, and this did get me a good read, it wasn't
: quite good enough.  There are a few errors, at least one of which is
: uncorrectable because the line number in a "gosub" command is missing and I
: have no idea where it's supposed to gosub to.
: Jayson.

Oh, come on now...

If it's an Applesoft program, you ought to be able to tear into it and
figure out where that GOSUB goes.  If I can trace the uncommented spaghetti
that I wrote 20 years ago in Applesoft and figure out exactly what it's
doing and why, you should be able to...knowing what the program is
supposed to be doing...trace through it and figure out where the jump
should go.

'Course it may not be worth the effort to do that...  8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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