20 years of trying... in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r10756165 en Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:42:47 EDT Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:42:47 EDT Re: 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10759403 SwampKracker : Brings back fond memories. The days of cracking C64 games. Things were so much simpler back then.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10759403 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:57:54 EDT Re: 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758418 Combat Chuck :
said by Voyager2K2 See Profile:
I don't even play games anymore, but I feel for those of you who are dealing with this garbage.


I have a feeling that it's going to move beyond games in the near future, if it hasn't already.
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Windmills do not work that way! Good Night!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758418 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:12:10 EDT Re: 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758246 Voyager2K2 : Oh I remember that well.

First thing was I lived close enough to Commodore I could pedal my bike there if I desired to return a drive that lost alignment.
Second thing was how easy it was to crack. Just insert the error code into the program!
Believe me it wasn't my intention to crack, but for the life of my 1541 I was forced to.
I did learn assembler and Hex coding for that CPU so it wasn't all a loss. Radio Shack did a good business selling Binary/Hex/Base10 calculators

All of us ended up buying those soft stops for our drives and bought the speed and head alignment discs.

I don't even play games anymore, but I feel for those of you who are dealing with this garbage.

The crackers will get busy and beat this quickly.
The fact that it does screw your system will speed the process and hasten the distribution of circumvention.

It's very bad for a software company to make your end users start hating you. It makes pirates out of consumers who would normally pay for your product.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758246 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:55:53 EDT Re: 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758145 mustang03282 :
said by StudioTech See Profile:
Anyone who had a Commodore 64 back in the day will remember that disks were coded with errors deliberately to foil some copying software. The drawback to that was that the 1541 disk drive which most of us had back then would then literally bang it's read head against itself. Do that enough times, and it would either make the head go out of alignment or become disable altogether. This scheme sort of reminds me of that.
wow thats why i went through so many drives]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10758145 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:44:54 EDT Re: 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10756234 paulsysp : What about with copied games i notice that starforce driver is installed too. Does that cause any problems??]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10756234 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:14:23 EDT 20 years of trying... http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10756165 StudioTech : Anyone who had a Commodore 64 back in the day will remember that disks were coded with errors deliberately to foil some copying software. The drawback to that was that the 1541 disk drive which most of us had back then would then literally bang it's read head against itself. Do that enough times, and it would either make the head go out of alignment or become disable altogether. This scheme sort of reminds me of that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10756165 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:06:57 EDT