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- Unprotecting Screen Sculptor V 1.03
-
- Screen Sculptor is written in Turbo Pascal, and employes the
- use of CHaiN files. Because of the nature of these chain files,
- you can not directly strip the copy protection with debug! As a
- matter of fact due to the structure of the code that turbo
- generates, the actual disk access can not be striped out! The
- only thing that can be done is to change the code which Screen
- Sculptor looks for and leave it at that! (This means you still
- must have a disk in Drive A, but any DOS formatted disk should
- work for this!!) The procedure is as follows:
-
- PCTools Procedure
- -----------------
-
- (FM included on this disk will work just fine - Public Brand Software)
-
- 1) With a disk utility such as PC Tools (Norton may also be
- used as well as debug, but these procedures are much more
- difficult! But you may find the debug procedure the
- easiest.) You want to look as relative sector 4 of the
- file SSMAIN.CHN (not relative sector 4 of the disk!!!).
-
- 2) At an offset of 96h, you should see the following numbers:
- 3D 10 00 ( CMP AX,0010H)
- These should be canged to
- 3D 02 00 ( CMP AX,0002H)
-
- 3) Step 2 (Change 10 00 to 02 00) should be repeated at offset
- 12FH and 167H within Relative Sector 4.
-
- The Screen sculptor will now run (using this modified file) on
- ANY DOS formated floppy Diskette!! Use the same offsets with
- Norton except remember that relative sectors are numbered as 0,
- 1, 2, 3,... that means that the sector you want to modify is the
- FIFTH sector in the file!!
-
- DEBUG Procedure
- ---------------
-
- To do the unprotect from debug type at the DOS Prompt:
-
- DEBUG SSMAIN.CHN
-
- Then to make the changes type at debugs '-' prompt:
-
- ECS:997 02 00
- ECS:A2F 02 00
- ECS:A67 02 00
-
- the type W to write the file to disk. MAKE ABSOLUTLY SURE YOU
- ARE WRITING THIS TO A COPY AND NOT THE ORIGINAL!!!!
-
- This will unprotect your copy of Screen Sculptor V 1.03 so ENJOY
-
- HACKMAN
-