david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (09/14/90)
I have information on a (supposedly) pirate version of Spectre on disk. Could David Small please get in touch with me, and I will give full details? (Sorry, I don't have his address). I cannot imagine that this works, but I still would like to pass on the info. Thanks, David Megginson (I can't imagine that the pirates read the net -- do they?) -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) (09/15/90)
In article <1990Sep14.014009.2283@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: >I have information on a (supposedly) pirate version of Spectre on >disk. Could David Small please get in touch with me, and I will >give full details? (Sorry, I don't have his address). I cannot imagine >that this works, but I still would like to pass on the info. Actually, this is quite possible. All you really have to do is hack the code to Spectre to look for the Mac ROM image on disk instead of a physical ROM plugged in via Dave's box. I actually saw a version of Magic Sac a year or two ago that someone had hacked like this. You'd be surprised at the time and energy these pirates spend to get around paying for software. You'd figure the original hacker would have to spend hours trying to patch the software to accomplish this (maybe longer). It's too bad that these creeps don't get into constructive programming rather than stealing from people like Dave Small. >Thanks, > >David Megginson > Cheers, Chris >(I can't imagine that the pirates read the net -- do they?) You ARE joking, right? If you want to see how much commercial software gets FTPed and emailed over the net, just talk to your friendly neighborhood postmaster at your site. I'm sure he/she will have many an interesting tale to tell. ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |D{r det finns en |l, finns cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |det en plan! (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------