Την Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:18:43 -0500,ο(η) Ralf Rekondt  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε:

> Hi Phoebus,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)"
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Extracting QL Programmes from Microdrive to PC
>
>
>> There were many that were hacked ;-) however a lot of them are lost. I
>> used to have in Greece (where this was ermmm... common practice) a ton  
>> of
>> games that were previously copy-protected. I bought most of them over  
>> the
>> years in legit form, but now that they no longer work, I wish I had kept
>> the hacked versions so I could enjoy them still :-)
>
> I have kept them 8-). Unfortunately, "The Pawn" was hacked by an italian
> guy, who has unfortunately compiled the loader with Supercharge, maybe to
> protect his work ;-). And that is the only hacked version, I am aware. It
> does not run on QPC and QemuLator but on a 640k SQB QL.

Well I've done in the past a version of the Magnetic emulator (that also  
allows for the graphics to be displayed - ripped from other versions of  
the Pawn and displayed using libpng). However it was never stable enough  
to be released. I guess I will have to pick that one up again and finish  
it (Allthough thanks to Per Witte's "curse" a while back - Not really a  
curse but he sent that with two kids I will have my hands full when at the  
time I did not but somehow it ended up being like that!- I have less time  
than ever and almost all of it is spent of freeQDOS). Back to Magnetic, I  
even went so far to convert the mp3 files accompanying the magnetic games  
to a ub format, so they would work on my Q40. Now that QPC allows that as  
well, I see no reason why it couldn't be used under QPC as well.

>
>> 4Matter/Locksmith, went two steps further than that. I did reproduce the
>> (purposefully left) bad sectors left on a microdrive to make exact  
>> copies
>> as well as descrambled references to flp/mdv and other devices.
>
> And we should remind Steve Jones also for his *very* good SideWinder dump
> program!
>

Didn't Dilwyn have something like that too?

Ffibys
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