StudioTech
S2409W plus SA4250HD
join:2001-10-10
Edison, NJ
| 20 years of trying...
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. |
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paulsysp
Sunny
Premium
join:2002-02-03 | What about with copied games i notice that starforce driver is installed too. Does that cause any problems?? |
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mustang03282
join:2003-01-10
Bridgeton, NJ
clubs:
 ·Verizon FIOS
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said by 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.
wow thats why i went through so many drives |
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA
·Verizon FIOS
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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. |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
Premium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
| said by Voyager2K2 :
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! |
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SwampKracker
join:2004-06-08
Victor, NY | reply to Voyager2K2
Brings back fond memories. The days of cracking C64 games. Things were so much simpler back then. |
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