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MESSAGE FROM:BOZO NYC
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DEMUFFIN AND DEMUFFIN PLUS IS ONE OF
THE EASIEST AND BEST METHODS FOR
CRACKING THOSE DISCS WHICH HAVE A DOS
(AS OPPOSED TO A 'QUICK-LOADER') THIS
LETTER WILL HELP YOU DETERMINE IF THE
DISC YOU WANT TO CRACK CAN BE
DEMUFFINED, AND IF SO, HOW TO USE
DEMUFFIN TO CRACK IT.
IF YOU GET A BASIC PROMPT, EVEN ONCE,
DEMUFFIN WILL WORK (ALTHOUGH YOU STILL
WILL OFTEN HAVE TO REWRITE PORTIONS OF
SOME OF THE PROGRAMS YOU TRANSFER, OR
RECOVER BITS OF ASSEMBLY PROGRAMS THAT
ARE ON THE ORIGINAL, BUT NOT IN THE
DIRECTORY...REMEMBER, THE PEOPLE THAT
WRITE GOOD PROGRAMS ARE NOT STUPID,
THEY WILL USE EVERY TRICK TO TRY AND
MAKE CRACKING THEIR PROGRAM IMPOSSIBLE
...YOUR JOB AS A CRACKER IS NO EASY
ONE!!!...A TRULY PROFICIENT CRACKER
MUST BE FLUENT IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE).
IF YOU CAN GET A CATALOG BY ANY METHOD
FROM THE ORIGINAL, DEMUFFIN WILL WORK.
ONCE YOU HAVE DETERMINED DEMUFFIN WILL
WORK, BUT BEFORE YOU USE IT, YOU MUST
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS... MUFFIN IS AN
ASSEMBLY PROGRAM WHICH READS ONE DISC
FORMAT AND THEN WRITES ANOTHER. APPLE
DESIGNED MUFFIN TO READ 13 SECTOR AND
WRITE 16 SECTOR. THEN SOME PROGRAMMER
DECIDED THAT IT MIGHT BE USEFUL TO
READ 16 SECTOR AND WRITE 13 SECTOR...
THUS NIFFUM WAS BORN. NOW SOME CLEVER
PIRATE THOUGHT 'WHY NOT READ WITH THE
DOS THAT IS ALREADY IN THE MACHINE AND
WRITE WITH 13 SECTOR'. THIS PROGRAM
(WHICH WE KNOW AS DEMUFFIN) TAKES THE
DOS WHICH YOU LOADED IN WHEN YOU
BOOTED THE ORIGINAL AND USES THIS RWTS
TO READ; DEMUFFIN HAS 13 SECTOR RWTS
BUILT IN AND USES THIS TO WRITE OUT IN
STANDARD 13 SECTOR FORMAT. DEMUFFIN
PLUS DOES EXACTLY THE SAME THING, ONLY
ITS INTERNAL RWTS WRITES OUT IN 16
SECTOR.
NOW THAT YOU KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT
DEMUFFIN IS...ON TO THE NITTY GRITTY.
NOTE THAT ALL REFERENCES TO DEMUFFIN
APPLY TO DEMUFFIN PLUS AS WELL;
REMEMBER THAT BOTH PROGRAMS DO THE
SAME THING, DEMUFFIN OUTPUTS IN 13
SECTOR WHILE DEMUFFIN PLUS OUTPUTS IN
16 SECTOR.
THE 'SECRET' TO USING DEMUFFIN IS
REMEMBERING THAT IT IS AN ASSEMBLY
PROGRAM DESIGNED TO OPERATE AT A
SPECIFIC LOCATION IN MEMORY ($803). IF
YOU LOAD IT IN SOMEWHERE ELSE AND TRY
TO RUN IT, IT WON'T WORK. THIS WOULD
NOT EVEN REQUIRE MENTIONING EXCEPT
THAT THE AREA AT $800 IS DESTROYED BY
A BOOT! KEEP IN MIND THAT DEMUFFIN
MUST BE IN MEMORY BEFORE YOU BOOT THAT
PROTECTED DISC YOU'RE TRYING TO CRACK.
ONCE YOU'VE BOOTED THE PROTECTED DISC
YOU WILL BE OPERATING UNDER THEIR DOS
AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO READ THE
DISC THAT CONTAINS DEMUFFIN (YOUR DISC
HAS STANDARD DOS...REMEMBER?)...SO
WHAT ARE WE TO DO? THERE ARE TWO
CHOICES: ONE IS TO USE TAPE (UGH!);
THE OTHER IS TO FIRST LOAD DEMUFFIN IN
SOMEWHERE THAT THE BOOT WON'T DESTROY
IT. THIS IS THE METHOD I RECOMMEND
FIRST BOOT YOUR DOS AND BLOAD DEMUFFIN
AT $6000 [I CHOSE $6000...THERE ARE
MANY 'CORRECT LOCATIONS']
SECOND BOOT THE ORIGINAL (PGM TO BE
CRACKED) AND RESET AFTER DOS HAS
LOADED AND THE FIRST PROGRAM HAS
STARTED TO LOAD IN. PROPER RESETING
DEPENDS ON MANY THINGS SUCH AS WHICH
MONITOR YOU HAVE AND HOW AND WHEN THE
ORIGINAL SETS YOUR RESET VECTOR AT
$3F2-$3F3. I WILL DISCUSS PROPER
RESET METHODS IN THE NEXT LETTER.
THIRD GET INTO THE MONITOR (CALL -151
OR RESET ON THE F8 ROM) AND TYPE
803<6000.8000M N 803G THIS WILL
MOVE DEMUFFIN BACK WHERE IT BELONGS
AND START IT RUNNING.
FOURTH FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS...
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