At 10:48 22.7.1998 -0700, you wrote:
>to make the patches, yes?  Isn't this at least an order of magnitude harder
>than just finding the INT 17 calls and fooling with the conditionals after
it?
> Perhaps you are a more accomplished hacker than I!
>

Hmmm, it depends on how the "orders of magnitude" is defined :-)) Surely
the described scheme is harder, but I think that "several orders of
magnitude" is strong word.

>Of course, the 2600 crowd is not idle.  Now they look for the hard writes to
>memory.  I am sure that the dance will go on as long as copy protection is in
>use.

Yep, this is sure thing.

>
>We can both agree that dongles are an exercise in frustration for the user,
>yes?  I would not use a dongle on any product of mine aimed at a large
consumer
>market, but I am not opposed to designing them for others that think and feel
>differently.

Dongles are terrible. BTW, one think that I like on our Eagle PCB package
is the fact that there is no dongle.

Best regards

PavelK

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