>On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Ray Bryan wrote:
>
>> As far as I am aware all versions of SuperScript(and SuperBase) were Dongle
>> protected from the pet thru the Amiga. EZ Script was an unprotected version
>> sort of this same ware.
>
>The Dongles that I have taken apart consist of nothing more than a few
>transistors in series to provide a delay for the signal to be fed back to
>the computer. These operate so fast that a machine language routine is
>necessary to read them. Just look for a machine language routine
>somewhere near the beginning of the program that outputs to the cassette
>port(most use the cassette port) and then reads back from the cassette
>port without doing any data I/O.
These are real dongles with logic inside. In the Pet I think that
(or so I was told) they went in the ROM socket - later the
Superscript dongles were in the joystick port.
--Ray
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