re how to the disks copy protected in article mchen apr terra cs psu edu mchen terra cs psu edu michael chen writes if companies compressed their executables with lzw andd did some kind of encryption in the process this change two bytes here thing would go right out the window not entirely true a friend of mine was having trouble finishing the game gods and asked me for help since he could not find a trainer small patch that lets you play without losing lifes the game is compressed but i did find one byte which when changed in the original compressed file would not affect the decompression and would also prevent the shield in the game from being tured off turning therefore making you invincible there are many other progs whose copy protection was defeated one way or another and i have seen examples of this with my own eyes the copy protection schemes defeated were various such as using protected mode compressed executables progs that load and execute other progs possibly compressed dongles key disks etc i believe that persistence overcomes even the very best copy protection schemes michael chen from the depths of our most lucid horrors spring our fond hopes and pure desires mchen cs psu edu except what comes from hell alex t ivopol cyborg kauri vuw ac nz external user victoria university of wellington new zealand i speak for myself and no one else
