Fred, a completely unrelated piece of information, but interesting
nonetheless:
Elnec device programmers are very famous for the number of devices it
programs and its robustness. Also for their clones. If you open a cloned
beeprog you cannot differ it from an original beeprog.
I still haven't com
Just as my first product was about to go to market, the company president
decided we needed copy protection. He wanted Prolok. I objected, and
proposed that if I could break it in 24 hours, we wouldn't use it. I took
25 hours, and we did use it (fair is fair).
I finally found my notes and the unlo
Another thing Prolok did was produce a small 3 disk set of sample disks
with the Prolok protection. Somewhere around here I still have a set of
those disks.
As I recall, a program was included on each disk to copy the program to
be copy protected to the special disk.
Vault Corporation produced "Prolok" with a physical defect. To make it
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Ali wrote:
Which could be defeated w/ the Copy II Plus Enhanced Option board:
http://retro.icequake.net/dob/img/eob/
There were many ways around it.
Because Vault didn't write a new software package f
> Vault Corporation produced "Prolok" with a physical defect. To make it
> MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE to investors and clients, instead of a roomful of
> people scratching disks with paperclips, they used a "laser
> fingerprint"
> (use a laser, instead of a paperclip).
Which could be defeated w/ the Co
