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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ╓─┐ ╥ ┌ ╓─┐ ╥┌─┐ ╓── ╥ ┌ ╓─┐ ╥┌─┐ ╓── │ │ ╙─┐ ╟─┤ ╟─┤ ║┘┐┘ ╟─ ║ ┬ │ ╟─┤ ║┘┐┘ ╟─ │ │ ╙─┘ ╨ ┴ ╨ ┴ ╨ └ ╙── ╙─┴─┘ ╨ ┴ ╨ └ ╙── │ │ ╥┌─┐ ╓── ╥ ┌ ╓── ╥┌─┐ ╥ ╓─┐ ╓─┐ ╥┌┐ │ │ ║┘ │ ╟─ ╙╖┌┘ ╟─ ║┘┐┘ ║ ║ │ ║ ║┘┐ │ │ ╨ ┴ ╙── ╙┘ ╙── ╨ └ ╙── ╙─┘ ╙─┘ ╨ └ │ │ Copyware Copyright (c) 1991-1992 Frank Klein │ │ All Rights Reserved │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ 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. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ╥ ╥ ╓─┐ ╓── ╥┌─┐ ╓─┐ ╓── │ │ ║ ║ ║ ╟─ ║┘ │ ╙─┐ ╟─ │ │ ╙── ╨ ╙─┘ ╙── ╨ ┴ ╙─┘ ╙── │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ╥ ┌ ╓─┐ ╥┌─┐ ╥┌─┐ ╓─┐ ╥┌─┐╓─╥─┐╥ ┌ │ │ ║ ┬ │ ╟─┤ ║┘┐┘ ║┘┐┘ ╟─┤ ║┘ │ ║ ╙╥┘ │ │ ╙─┴─┘ ╨ ┴ ╨ └ ╨ └ ╨ ┴ ╨ ┴ ╨ ╨ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ╥┌─┐ ╓── ╥ ┌ ╓── ╥┌─┐ ╥ ╓─┐ ╓─┐ ╥┌┐ │ │ ║┘ │ ╟─ ╙╖┌┘ ╟─ ║┘┐┘ ║ ║ │ ║ ║┘┐ │ │ ╨ ┴ ╙── ╙┘ ╙── ╨ └ ╙── ╙─┘ ╙─┘ ╨ └ │ │ 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 ! ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ ╓─┐ ╥┌─┐ ╥─┐ ╓── ╥┌─┐ │ │ ║ │ ║┘┐┘ ║ │ ╟─ ║┘┐┘ │ │ ╙─┘ ╨ └ ╨─┘ ╙── ╨ └ │ └───────────────────────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ 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. ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ 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. ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ 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. ║ ║ ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ U.S.A & OVERSEAS ORDERS ========================= 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) ________ Business NeverLock $99.00 + $6.00 (US) handling ________ Total Amount ________ =========================================================== Postage from the U.S.A to Canada REQUIRES 49 cents. Please be sure to put the correct postage on your envelope. Otherwise it will not be delivered. =========================================================== CANADIAN ORDERS =============== 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 ________ 7% GST ________ (Ontario only) 8% PST ________ Total Amount ________ |-------------------------| | | Name ____________________________ | Copyware | | Upper Canada Mall | Address ____________________________ | P.O. 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