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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Breaking Mediagenics' copy protection
Keywords: copy protection, mediagenics, copy II mac
Message-ID: <81044@felix.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 14:59:16 GMT
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Reply-To: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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In article <1226@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John R. Delaney) writes:
 
<The situation: I recently bought a copy of "Shanghai" (a Mah-Jongg-like
<game) by Mediagenics (nee Activision).
 
<The request: How do I break the copy-protection on the original disk
<without trashing the program.

Shanghai is on the list of programs that Copy II Mac can copy to a floppy
but it is not on the list of programs that it can copy to a hard disk.

However, I do have it on my hard disk, though I don't know how it got there.
I bought a used system with a hard disk and it was already there. I know
that it doesn't run under MultiFinder (without crashing occasionally), so
I don't use it.  If they had a version that is not copy protected and ran
without crashing, I would buy it. But I don't even consider buying copy-
protected software.

By the way, there are other reasons to buy Copy II Mac, such as undeleting
lost or erased files, making files visible and invisible, view and edit
any block on a disk, etc. Not being any kind of a hacker, I don't have
a copy of ResEdit nor know how to use it. Copy II Mac made is possible to
read a document that came with the new TOM init the other day, although
their support had to walk me through it.

Shirley Kehr