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- │ Copyware Copyright (c) 1991-1992 Frank Klein │
- │ All Rights Reserved │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- ┌─────────────────────────────┐
- │ Copyware │
- │ │
- │ Voice: (416) 830-1961 │
- │ │
- │ Upper Canada Mall │
- │ P.O. Box 21539 │
- │ Newmarket, Ontario │
- │ CANADA L3Y 8J1 │
- └─────────────────────────────┘
-
- If you find that Shareware NeverLock is useful to you, your
- registration would be appreciated. You will receive the latest
- Universal NeverLock which unprotects ALL the games that we know
- about. Universal NeverLock supports more than 400 games. The
- registration fee is $59 + $6 handling. See the order form at the
- end of this document.
-
-
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-
- Shareware NeverLock is Copyright (c) 1991-1992
- by Copyware and Frank Klein. All Rights Reserved.
-
- 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). Please
- re-transmit the same unmodified files NEV_SHAR.DOC, NEV_SHAR.EXE
- and FILE_ID.DIZ that you downloaded. The file FILE_ID.DIZ allows
- a BBS to automatically determine the correct file description.
-
- 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.
-
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- │ ╨ ┴ ╙── ╙┘ ╙── ╨ └ ╙── ╙─┘ ╙─┘ ╨ └ │
- │ Copyware Copyright (c) 1991-1992 Frank Klein │
- │ All Rights Reserved │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- What is NeverLock ?
-
- NeverLock is a utility that removes copy-protection from your own
- programs. Universal NeverLock and Shareware NeverLock remove
- copy-protection from games. Business NeverLock removes Aztec
- Everlock copy-protection from business software.
-
- Frank Klein is the co-author of CopyWrite. Since 1987 he has
- provided Quaid Software Ltd with 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 window and menu systems of NeverLock were built with
- TechnoJock's Object Toolkit. The flexible menu and window
- objects, dynamic linked lists, and overall clean design of the
- Toolkit made it a joy to use. Examining the Toolkit source code
- made it possible to extend objects in new ways. This excellent
- product is available from TechnoJock Software Inc.
-
-
- 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 unauthorized people
- from using 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 hunt
- for 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. Illegal software copying 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.
- You should copy all the files of the protected product to another
- directory on your hard drive, and then 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 bypass 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 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: unprotects all the games that we know about.
- Shareware: unprotects several games that we have selected.
- Business : supports Everlock.
-
- Classic collection:
- All versions of NeverLock have the Classic Collection
- of game unprotects.
-
- Available titles:
- This is a PURELY INFORMATIONAL DISPLAY of all the
- games that can be unprotected when you purchase
- Universal NeverLock from Copyware.
- This is NOT a list of games 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;
-
- Exit NeverLock, change to the game directory and start the game.
- If a quiz screen appears, just enter any answer. The game will
- think your answer is correct and continue normally.
-
- 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 only find ?,???,??? bytes of free disk
- space on your system. This may not be enough
- space for NeverLock to copy the protected files.
- Do you wish to continue anyway ?'
- Advice:
- NeverLock needs free disk space to hold copies of
- the protected files. In some cases the files could
- be as large as 2 megabytes. If you have 500K of
- free disk space, NeverLock will probably work
- anyway. With less than that, you may get an error
- message that a file could not be copied or
- exchanged. If the above sounds confusing, then the
- best solution is to free up 2 megabytes of disk
- space on any hard drive on your system.
-
- 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:
- '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 in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT and only 'FILES=20' in the
- CONFIG.SYS. Then run NeverLock again.
-
- 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.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────┐
- │ Copyware │
- │ │
- │ Voice: (416) 830-1961 │
- │ │
- │ Upper Canada Mall │
- │ P.O. Box 21539 │
- │ Newmarket, Ontario │
- │ CANADA L3Y 8J1 │
- └─────────────────────────────┘
-
- Please be at your computer and have the NeverLock
- log file at hand, to help us understand your problem.
-
- Thank you for using NeverLock !
-
-
-
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- ║ UNIVERSAL NEVERLOCK $59.00 + $6.00 handling ║
- ║ ║
- ║ You receive the latest NeverLock that removes ║
- ║ copy-protection from all of the games that we ║
- ║ know about. NeverLock now supports more than ║
- ║ 400 different games. ║
- ║ ║
- ║ Never be locked out of your own software ! ║
- ║ ║
- ║ After you use NeverLock, you will be able to ║
- ║ run your software without the need for any ║
- ║ manuals, code-wheels or key-diskettes. ║
- ║ ║
- ║ Registered customers may purchase an update for ║
- ║ $39.00 +$6.00 (US) handling. ║
- ║ ║
- ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
- ║ ONE-YEAR UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIPTION $270.00 ║
- ║ ║
- ║ You receive six new Universal NeverLock editions ║
- ║ during the next year. Subscribers receive the ║
- ║ latest NeverLock before anyone else. We ship ║
- ║ automatically as soon as the newest version is ║
- ║ ready. ║
- ║ ║
- ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
- ║ BUSINESS NEVERLOCK $99.00 + $6.00 handling ║
- ║ ║
- ║ Removes Everlock copy-protection from business ║
- ║ software installed on your hard drive. No more ║
- ║ hidden files on your system. ║
- ║ ║
- ║ Never lose your last install ! ║
- ║ ║
- ║ After you use NeverLock, you will be able to ║
- ║ backup your business software, and run it on ║
- ║ your other computers. ║
- ║ ║
- ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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- U.S.A & OVERSEAS ORDERS
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- We accept only VISA, Check or Money Order.
- U.S.A. customers and overseas customers must remit
- payment in U.S.A. funds drawn on a U.S.A. bank.
-
- Universal NeverLock $59.00 + $6.00 (US) handling ________
-
- One-Year Universal Subscription $270.00 (US) ________
-
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-
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-
- We accept only VISA, Check or Money Order.
- Canadians must remit payment in Canadian funds.
- Canadian residents outside Ontario please add 7% GST
- Ontario residents please add 7% GST + 8% PST
-
- Universal NeverLock $71.00 + $7.00 (CAN) handling ________
-
- One-Year Universal Subscription $324.00 (CAN) ________
-
- Business NeverLock $119.00 + $7.00 (CAN) handling ________
-
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