willi_at_allvantage.com
Date: 2006-08-27 00:23:29
Hi!
Quoting Pasi Ojala:
> Have you tried attaching a cassette drive and pressing play?
> This is enough to "circumvent" the Leaderboard dongle..
> Is there any actual electronics in the dongle?
As the author of KMMM Pascal it's a bit mind-blowing to see messages about
my programs to show up like this.
I have no idea as to what's in the dongle. Back in the day when KMMM Pascal
had a monopoly on the market for Pascal I was approached by the people who make
dongles. They said that their product was a solution to the problem of illegal
copying. So I started using their dongle. It's throughly potted so there's no
way of examining the dongle without destroying it.
The source that would show how the dongle works is on 8 inch floppies. At
the moment I have no way to access those floppies as the CP/M system that can
read the disks has a broken serial interface. Oops, that's wrong, I can access
the disks but I can't get files from that CP/M system to my Amiga 3000, my
primary 6502 development system.
Willi
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