Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!eos!aio!vf.jsc.nasa.gov!kent From: kent@vf.jsc.nasa.gov Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Balance of Power Message-ID: <1991May15.114537.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 15 May 91 17:45:37 GMT References: <1991May8.152608.11050@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <1058@sys.uea.ac.uk> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: NASA Johnson Space Flight Center Lines: 38 In article <1058@sys.uea.ac.uk>, cmp9133@sys.uea.ac.uk (A.C. Lock) writes: > > On a slightly different issue, Amiga Format claims to have provided the > complete list of passwords, which are required to get past the built in > copy protection, but this is not the case, since they have only printed > about 50% of the total passwords. If you wish to get the whole list, > load the BOP executable into a text editor such as lse , ced or something > similar, go to the end of the file, and scroll backwards until you come > across a whole lump a text, which contains some of the passwords that > you already know, then delete the crud above and below it. > You will then need to format this bit to make it more legible and > save it as a file called 'bop:bop.passwords'. > > When the protection comes up, open a shell on you workbench and > 'type bop:bop.passwords' and read off the appropriate entry. > If you are brave you can use a disk editor to change all the passwords to be the same word. Directly modify the executable. You would have to reverse engineer the data structure that is holding the passwords. I tried to do this with a copy of my ORIGINAL Empire. The passwords are encoded in the executable. you can't just find them laying around. So I did it the hard way, I built a manual list of words and put them on a text file on disk. I think the password method is the way to go as far as copy protection is concerned. I just get tired of it after a while. I realize the software makers need to protect their sales. I have no gripes with the realities of copy protection. I just wish it all would be HD installable and you could backup the orginals. -- Mike Kent - Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC 2400 NASA Rd One, Houston, TX 77058 (713) 483-3791 KENT@vf.jsc.nasa.gov