The goal as stated on Jason's blog is not to replace the crack screen versions but to supplement them with the quiet crack versions. And there are a group of people now with the skills required to circumvent the copy protection quietly. "4am" is one of those -- https://twitter.com/a2_4am On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The thing with the various cracking group titles, it's early demo scene music and graphics. Occasionally pushing the limits of the machines. I think those are important as artifacts as well.
I do understand the requests for the silent cracks as well. But do you have the skills/know someone with the skills to do that? That's where things might get a bit difficult, as much of that requires intimate knowledge of both the copy protection schemes as well as being able to code in machine language.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:37 PM Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I've got two boxes of stuff i need to inventory and ship him already...
On 3/21/2017 5:51 PM, Mark Whittington via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Jason (of archive.org and textfiles.com fame) is renewing efforts to track down and image as much of the existing original Apple ][ software as possible.
More info here, summary below -- http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5180
In short, a lot of the software that's been archived so far was sourced from cracked versions that were often modified greatly from the original releases. There's now a team of very skilled folks who want to be sure that the pristine versions of these programs are archived and that so-called "silent crack" versions are available for future generations to enjoy. In this context, a "silent crack" is one that removes the copy protection and nothing more, and without adding crack screens or attributions.
They're getting to the end of the collections that they already have and are putting out the call for more from people who may have collections sitting around gathering dust in boxes.
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