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From: ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Way to get unique machine specific ID?
Message-ID: <1991May29.200541.28813@vicorp.com>
Date: 29 May 91 20:05:41 GMT
Reply-To: ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson)
Organization: V. I. Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts
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Is there any way to get a machine specific ID from an Amiga system?
The application I am thinking of is as a form of copy protection
where the software will only run on the machine it is installed on.
(The computer is supplied as part of the package.)  Ideally there
would be something like a ROM address that would contain a unique code
but I suppose it is much less expensive to duplicate identical ROM's.
I suppose one way to do it would be to hide a code on the hard disk as
part of installation.  Using some form of file id wouldn't work
because of the existance of copy programs that copy exact images of disks.

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