Date   : Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:00:44 +0100 (BST)
From   : Peter Hatton <bramley@...>
Subject: Re: More tape to disc transfer fun: Alien 8

Alien 8 was not the only one that used Kevin Edwards protection scheme.  I
remember spending a lot of time trying to crack one of the other Ulimate
titles - Knight Lore it was.  

Not sure how I did it, but I think it involved the use of the Watford 32k
shadow board.  I think the trick was to put the loader program into the
shadow memory, and let it run.  This would stop the protection routine
locking the break key up (As it was writting to the shadow memory).  Once
it had decoded, hit break, and copy the code from the shadow memory to the
main memory and save for later use.

Peter Hatton
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