Juiced.GS Concentrate: Copy Protection

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Commercial Apple II programs such as Wizardry have long employed ingenious tactics to thwart duplication. By examining these techniques, the design and potential of the computer’s hardware and software is revealed. Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe provides an extensive tour of all the tricks used to manipulate data on disk and in memory. A bonus article by Martin Haye explains how he cracked Wizardry to win the KansasFest HackFest contest.

Description

Commercial Apple II programs such as Wizardry have long employed ingenious tactics to thwart duplication. By examining these techniques, the design and potential of the computer’s hardware and software is revealed. Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe provides an extensive tour of all the tricks used to manipulate data on disk and in memory. A bonus article by Martin Haye explains how he cracked Wizardry to win the KansasFest HackFest contest.

This Concentrate features content originally published in these back issues of Juiced.GS:

  • Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2008)
  • Volume 13, Issue 3 (September 2008)
  • Volume 13, Issue 4 (December 2008)
  • Volume 15, Issue 3 (September 2010)

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Format

PDF

Pages

12