Date   : Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:03:10 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <Richard_Watkins@...>
Subject: Re: More tape to disc transfer fun: Alien 8

Peter Hatton <bramley@...> wrote:

> Yes.  Once I had the decrypted loader routine, I was able to modify it
> so that it would load the program off tape, and then save it to disc.  A
> lot of heavy use of a 6502 diasembler was certainly needed, in order to
> exrtact to load and exec addresses!  Bare in mind, this was for Knight
> Lore, and not Alien 8, but from what everyone has said, it sounds a very
> identical protection method.

I didn't see Knight Lore, but if it seems possible I think the Alien 8
protection was probably worse... at least judging from Kevin Edwards' cheeky
message embedded in it which reads something like "Hello there, have you
managed to transfer Knight Lore onto disc yet?  I bet you haven't!  Well if
you thought Knight Lore was bad, you'll get quite a shock when you look at
this code.  Bye bye."  Hmmmmm....

Rich
Rich Talbot-Watkins
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Cambridge.
Richard_Watkins@...