Date   : Mon, 14 May 2001 16:37:32 
From   : "C Davies" <davies_@...>
Subject: Locked and beyond

Anyone else remember the fun of cracking the protections on the trusty BBC 
games?  I used to have a passion for doing this to transfer stuff to disc.  
Programmers used to leave little messages embedded in the files that you 
would unscramble on the way to cracking the games.

Elite had "Does your mummy know you're doing this"

Aardvark left some message about stringing you up with chicken wire...

There were many others, which I'm sure some people on this list will be able 
to recall.

And the ultimate protections were by Kevin Edwards.  They certainly made you 
think...  I remember he left his mailing address in one game, after you'd 
got through most of the layers of protection, asking for people who got that 
far to get in touch with him.

And, I can't even remember if it was protected, but transferring the hobbit 
to disc was a major accomplishment.  Had to use every bit of available ram 
(even filling non-used parts of zero page) to get that one onto disc.  Did 
they actually release a disc-based version?

Ah... happy days :o)

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