Date   : Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:03:44 +0100
From   : James Fidell <james@...>
Subject: Re: More tape to disc transfer fun: Alien 8

Quoting Rich Talbot-Watkins (Richard_Watkins@...):

> While we're on this tape to disc thread (Hampstead), here's my chance to bring
> up an old favourite topic of mine: did anyone ever look at Kevin Edwards' EVIL
> protection on Alien 8 by Ultimate, and did anyone crack it and get it onto
> disc?  My conclusion was that it was actually impossible to crack without
> writing a hardware emulator or resorting to hardware cheating somehow.
> 
> Anyone who ever looked at the code will know exactly what I'm talking about!

Sure I did.  And yes, I wrote some hardware emulation to do it :)

James
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