4AM

Internet Archive - The 4AM Collection https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am ... Thanks to 4am there are now more pieces of Apple software being Preserved and Deprotected without the highly vandalized or credit screens. Sure crack screens are great and I love browsing around Jason Scott's library of them ( http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/.thumbs.html ) but this documents the piracy history and some what leaves out the authors & creators of the games. Games that for the most part have been lost to time in musty basements or relegated to the trash bin by parents who cleaned out their kid's room back in the 90s without asking (YES I'M STILL MAD). Anyhow... 4am does a fantastic job of cracking things that never showed up on "the scene" and recracking items which either don't work or were altered in such away that the original idea of the program was harmed.

Plus as a bonus of downloading the 4AM cracks you get the step by step, blow by blow, how it was done. Sure most of this stuff was over my head 30 years ago and still is today... but it's a great way to see behind the veil of software protection.

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