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From: seebs@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch - possible? Yes, but how...
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Date: 14 May 91 21:08:01 GMT
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In article <1991May13.150110.10424@cs.ruu.nl> ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes:
>I did not say impossible, I said that a commercial program that does not
>know *on beforehand* where the manual protection lies will most likely
>not find it, unless the programmer has put a message in his code a la:
>"Here I am, your friendly neighbourhood manual protection! Just change
>these two pointers, and I'll be gone in a huff, never to bother you again!"

Oh... I thought you meant that no commercial prograrm could do it, period.
There exist many commercial programs (everyone's been listing their names)
which have paramater files for cracking particular games... That's easy
enough. Admittedly, the other case would be harder, but *maybe* it's
possible... ;-)

>>(And I'm never *going* to be Linda Seebach)

> -ThomasT. (And I am never going to be Peter either, as someone quoted me
>	    in this thread)

Sympathies... I know how hard it can be to be mistaken for me.
;-)

Note that I now have my own account back, so I'm no longer mndaily...

>Thomas Tavoly, Commercial Computer Science - HEAO Utrecht, NL.           / / /

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