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│ ╨ ┴ ╙── ╙┘ ╙── ╨ └ ╙── ╙─┘ ╙─┘ ╨ └ │
│ Copyware Copyright (c) 1991-1992 Frank Klein │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Copyware │
│ │
│ Voice: (416) 486-5628 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm│
│ Fax: (416) 486-3680 Fax │
│ BBS: (416) 650-5411 24 hours │
│ Voice: (416) 830-1961 Weekends │
│ │
│ P.O. Box 778 │
│ Postal Station "Q" │
│ Toronto, Ontario │
│ CANADA M4T 2N7 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
If you find Shareware NeverLock to be useful to you, your
registration would be appreciated. You will receive a Custom
NeverLock with YOUR choice of 3 unprotects from the "Available
Titles" list. The registration fee is $25 + $6 shipping. See
the order form at the end of this document.
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│ ╙── ╨ ╙─┘ ╙── ╨ ┴ ╙─┘ ╙── │
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Shareware NeverLock is Copyright (c) 1991-1992
by Copyware and Frank Klein.
Shareware NeverLock removes copy protection, both disk based and
paper based, from a variety of software products.
Shareware NeverLock is intended solely for the use of legitimate
owners or licensees of these products, and is specifically NOT
intended for any use that would deprive any software publisher of
his rightful income.
The unprotected files that Shareware NeverLock creates may NOT be
sold, rented out, given away, or uploaded to computer bulletin
board services ( BBS's ).
You may not modify Shareware NeverLock in any way. You may not
reverse engineer the program by decompiling, disassembling or
decrypting the program.
Shareware NeverLock is provided for the purpose of allowing you
to evaluate its effectiveness for your own needs. You are hereby
granted the right to use Shareware NeverLock for a reasonable
evaluation period. You are also granted the right, and
encouraged, to distribute Shareware NeverLock to others who may
find it of interest, and to upload it to computer bulletin board
services (BBS's).
NOTE:
The terms of this Shareware NeverLock license do NOT apply to
commercial versions of NeverLock. Do NOT distribute any version
but Shareware NeverLock. For the terms of license of the
commercial versions of NeverLock, please see the license and
warranty bundled with them.
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│ ╙─┴─┘ ╨ ┴ ╨ └ ╨ └ ╨ ┴ ╨ ┴ ╨ ╨ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
No warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, is attached
to Shareware NeverLock, including any claim of merchantability
or suitability of Shareware NeverLock for any specific purpose.
No warranty shall extend to any right to claim any damages from
Copyware and Frank Klein, including but not limited to loss of
profit, data, or use of the software, or any consequential or
incidental damages. You use Shareware NeverLock entirely at
your risk.
What is NeverLock ?
NeverLock is a utility that removes copy-protection from your own
programs. Business NeverLock removes Everlock and SoftGuard
Superlok copy-protection. The Universal, Custom and Shareware
versions of NeverLock remove copy-protection from games.
Frank Klein is the co-author of CopyWrite. Since 1987 he has
provided Quaid Software Ltd with all of the copy-protection
removal algorithms that exist in CopyWrite. You may be assured
that NeverLock continues the tradition of copy-protection removal
of the highest quality.
The text-mode animations and window-menu systems of NeverLock
were created with TechnoJock's Object Toolkit. The flexible menu
and window objects, dynamic linked lists, and overall clean
design of the Toolkit saved months of programming effort on the
NeverLock project. Examining the Toolkit source code made it
easy to extend objects in new ways. This excellent product is
available from TechnoJock Software Inc at (713) 493-6354.
REMOTE DATA SYSTEMS The Midnite Express provides a BBS conference
at (416) 650-5411 for technical support of Copyware products.
What is Copy-Protection ?
Copy-protection is a scheme used by a software publisher to
protect his product from illegal copying and distribution. It
can take many forms.
Sometimes the distribution disks can not be copied by DOS
commands. Sometimes the number of times the product can be
installed to a hard disk is limited. Sometimes before starting
up, the program asks you for information which can only be
answered by referring to the manual or other materials which
accompanied the original product.
This last category, called "paper-based protection", can also
include devices like code wheels, "no-copy" paper with special
pictures on it, and the like.
What's Wrong with Copy-Protection ?
Copy-protection, in attempting to prevent dishonest people from
stealing the product, can interfere with the secure and
pleasurable use of the product by legitimate customers.
A copy-protected disk is a fragile thing: if it "goes bad"
suddenly and without warning, you could be locked out of your own
software. A limited hard-disk install could disappear through
any number of common hard disk mishaps.
Paper-based protection is just plain annoying. Having to fish
out the manual or code wheel every time you play your game gets
to be irritating very quickly ! You paid for it, you backed it
up, but you're locked out of your own software without that piece
of paper.
Who Should Use NeverLock?
Any legitimate owner of a program which NeverLock supports and
who wants to be rid of the risk and annoyance associated with
copy-protection, should use NeverLock. We currently unprotect
hundreds of titles, as shown on the "Available titles list" and
"Classic collection" at the main menu. If you do not see your
program listed, you may phone us to find out if we have
unprotected it on the latest release of NeverLock.
Who Should NOT Use NeverLock?
If you are not a legitimate purchaser of a particular product
that you wish to unprotect, then STOP RIGHT NOW and go out and
buy your OWN copy of the product. Software piracy costs the
software industry millions of dollars a year, and in the end
drives up prices for everybody. NeverLock is not, repeat NOT,
intended to deprive any software author or publisher of his right
to receive payment for his intellectual property !
Safety First
Backup your copy-protected software before you use NeverLock.
How Do I Use NeverLock?
Nothing could be simpler! NeverLock comes as a single executable
file, with no accessory files, configuration files, or overlays
to keep track of. Just run it directly off the distribution disk
or run it off your hard disk after copying it there. When it
starts, NeverLock puts on a bit of a show. You can hit any key
to short-circuit this when you have seen enough.
When the main menu appears use your arrow keys to move the
highlight bar to any option and press the Enter key to select it.
That's it ! The program guides you every step of the way with
instructions and dialogue boxes, and there is always help
available by pressing the F1 key. There is full mouse support if
you have a Microsoft compatible mouse driver loaded when you
start NeverLock.
NeverLock removes protection by searching the program files for
the data that needs to be changed, and then making those changes
with little or no intervention from you.
Once the copy-protection is removed, you do not need to use
NeverLock again on that particular product. Note that NeverLock
is not a "disk copying program" that attempts to make a usable
backup from a copy-protected disk. Instead it is a copy-
protection removal utility.
Here is a brief summary of the options available on the Main
Menu. Remember that not all options may be available in your
particular version of NeverLock. NeverLock always identifies its
version on the main menu.
Order information and license: or
Registration and shareware license:
States the license terms for NeverLock in plain
English, and shows information for ordering
updates.
How to Use NeverLock:
This document.
New Releases:
The contents of this list depend on which version
of NeverLock you have.
Universal: all of the games which we know about.
Custom : three games that you selected.
Shareware: three games that we have selected.
Business : supports Everlock and SoftGuard.
Classic Collection:
All versions of NeverLock have the Classic
Collection of game unprotects.
Available titles:
This is a purely informational display of all the
products that are supported by Universal NeverLock.
This is NOT a list of products supported by this
version of NeverLock.
Read the latest NEVERLOC.LOG file:
NeverLock creates a new work directory and log file
on your hard disk each time you use it. When you
select this item from the main menu, NeverLock
finds the newest of its work directories and shows
you the log file within it.
F1 help with keys:
Pressing F1 at anytime in NeverLock brings up a
window showing the active keys and what they do.
Exit to DOS:
Leave NeverLock. Pressing X does the same.
NeverLock needs 2 megabytes of free space on your hard drive for
its work files. This can be any hard drive on your system.
At the main menu, select the game you wish to unprotect from
either the "New releases" list or the "Classic collection" list.
NeverLock will then prompt you for the letter of the drive your
game is installed on. It scans this drive and shows you a list
of all the directories it found.
Select the directory where the product is installed. NeverLock
will now put up a "final confirmation" dialogue box explaining
exactly what it thinks you want it to do, and giving you a chance
to stop it. If you elect to proceed, NeverLock will search the
directory you specified for the copy-protected files.
NeverLock creates a work directory on your hard disk. The first
one will be called NEV_001, and subsequent ones are numbered
upward. It copies the original files to this work directory and
then attempts to remove the copy-protection from the new files.
NeverLock will now prompt you again, offering to exchange these
work files for the original files in the game directory. If you
allow it to, it will perform the switch and leave your original
files in its work directory. In case the unprotected files do
not function properly, the originals are thus preserved if you
need them.
In some cases, to unprotect a game NeverLock creates a special
"loader" file to run the game. Watch its report screen
carefully: if needed, it will tell you that you have to start
your game with the loader rather than the game file itself.
NeverLock monitors the whole process and presents you with a
log file that holds:
The name of the commercial product;
What files were copied, searched or moved;
Where the original files and unprotected files are located;
A success or failure message;
And that's all there is to it ! Remember that the altered files
that are created by NeverLock are for your own use only and may
not be transmitted to another person in any form. And, except
for the special Shareware version which clearly identifies itself
as such, NeverLock itself should not be distributed to others,
either. See the License item on the Main Menu for details.
TroubleShooting
Problem:
'I can not find 2,097,152 bytes of free disk space'
Advice:
At least 1 hard drive on your system MUST have 2 megabytes of
free space. Time for some house cleaning.
Problem:
'Insufficient memory to run program'
Advice:
NeverLock needs about 420K of main memory. There
may be another program resident on your system
which is interfering. Reboot your machine from a
"vanilla" DOS system diskette which has nothing at
all in the CONFIG.SYS file and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Then
run NeverLock again.
Problem:
'I was unable to copy all the protected files'
Advice:
NeverLock could not read the protected files from
the source media, or it could not write the files
to its work directory. Maybe a floppy diskette was
unreadable ? Did the hard drive just become full ?
Problem:
'The file that needs to be patched is missing'
Advice:
NeverLock couldn't find the target file that it was
expecting in the directory you specified. For most
recent games, the game itself must be installed in
a directory on your drive. Did you select the
correct directory when NeverLock offered the list
of directories of your drive ?
Problem:
I could not find the bytes that must be changed.
This may be a different form of copy-protection.
Advice:
The required files were present but were not what
NeverLock expected. If the name of the commercial
product appears more than once on the New Release
list or the Classic Collection list, try again
using the next product name.
The other possibility is that you are trying to
unprotect a file that has already been altered by
NeverLock or some other unprotect utility. Be sure
that the required file mentioned in the NeverLock
log is actually the file that came with the game.
If you still can't make NeverLock work, feel free
to contact us for technical support. If you have a
modem, call our BBS for fast help.
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Copyware │
│ Voice: (416) 486-5628 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm │
│ Fax: (416) 486-3680 Fax │
│ BBS: (416) 650-5411 24 hours │
│ Voice: (416) 830-1961 Weekends │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Please have the NeverLock log file at hand, to help
us understand your problem.
Thank you for using NeverLock !
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│ ╙─┘ ╨ └ ╨─┘ ╙── ╨ └ │
└───────────────────────────┘
There are 3 different kinds of NeverLock available.
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ UNIVERSAL NEVERLOCK $59.00 + $6.00 shipping ║
║ ║
║ You receive the latest commercial NeverLock that ║
║ unprotects ALL of the games that we know about. ║
║ You may phone us to see if the game you own is ║
║ on our latest list of unprotect titles. ║
║ ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ CUSTOM NEVERLOCK $25.00 + $6.00 shipping ║
║ ║
║ You receive a commercial NeverLock with YOUR ║
║ choice of any THREE unprotects. Choose your ║
║ titles from the Available Titles list or call us ║
║ for the names of the latest games that we ║
║ support. And you get the current Classic ║
║ Collection too. ║
║ ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ BUSINESS NEVERLOCK $99.00 + $6.00 shipping ║
║ ║
║ You receive a commercial NeverLock that removes ║
║ Aztec Everlock copy-protection and SoftGuard ║
║ Superlok copy-protection from business software ║
║ installed on your hard drive. And you get the ║
║ Classic Collection too. ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
We accept only VISA, Check or Money Order.
Canadian customers must remit payment in Canadian funds.
Canadian residents outside Ontario please add 7% GST
Ontario residents please add 7% GST + 8% PST
U.S. customers and all others must remit payment in U.S funds
drawn on a U.S. bank.
Universal NeverLock $59.00 + $6.00 shipping ________
Business NeverLock $99.00 + $6.00 shipping ________
Custom NeverLock $25.00 + $6.00 shipping ________
Total Amount ________
Choose: 720 K diskette ___ or 360 K diskette ___
If you are ordering Custom NeverLock then select your titles:
Unprotect Title #1 _________________________
Unprotect Title #2 _________________________
Unprotect Title #3 _________________________
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| Copyware |
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| Toronto, Ontario | City ____________________________
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| Fax: (416) 486-3680 |
| BBS: (416) 650-5411 | Postal Code ____________________________
| if busy (416) 830-1961 |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Telephone ____________________________
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