Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!buster!brain!chuck From: chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: MaxAppleZoom theory Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 11:58:32 CDT Organization: BIAP Systems Message-ID: Reply-To: chuck@brain.uucp X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.5 Lines: 23 In article <7709@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, ospwd@mathcs.emory.edu (Peter Day {EUCC}) writes: > After being amazed that moving the video board to another slot made > MaxAppleZoom (MAZ) start working again, I came up with the following > theory. MAZ has a built-in length of time that it will allow you to try > it. It enforces that time limit by putting the date you first use it > into memory on the video board. Each time you boot, it checks to see if > a date is stored in video memory, and if so, adds the limit to that > date and compares it to your system date. If the system date is greater > than the computed date, it refuses to work. > A) What makes you think there is ANYTHING stored in "RAM" on a video card after the power is shut off? (IS it? Do you know if Toby cards have NV RAM?) B) Why wouldn't MAZ just write the date to its resource fork? C) This theory seems to be predicated on a horrible hack. Not to mention amazing coincidence. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shotton Internet: cshotton@girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu BIAP Systems UUCP: ...!buster!brain!chuck "Your silly quote here." AppleLink: D1683 MacNet: shotton