#CopyProtection: nice try #VCR industrie

I just got this new game called "Grand Monster Slam" for the Commodore Amiga and, initially, I had some issues dumping the -copy protected- floppy disk.
Luckily, after some tinkering, I finally got it working using the WinUAE 6.0.1 emulator and a virtual Amiga A500. This actually looks pretty sweet! 😜

#Amiga #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroGames #80s #Retro #90s #WinUAE #Emulation #CopyProtection

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Thanks to a new upload by "lemonhead" and "Digitoxin", I could finally complete my personal floppy disk collection of the 1987 game "Larry Leisure Suit" for the IBM-PC, Version 1.0.

This game was copy protected, so it's always neat to have all kinds of disk image formats available. I just dumped and added my own TeleDisk image. It works!

If you're curious: Here's Digitoxin's collection of "Sierra On-Line" titles:
https://archive.org/details/20220303_20220303_0527

This. Is. AWESOME! Enjoy! 😉

#RetroComputing #LarryLeisureSuit #LLS #MSDOS #DOSGaming #PCGaming #80s #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #86Box #Emulation #TeleDisk

Bought a #BlueRay player off of amazon. It just arrived and I'm kinda surprised that right within the included manual it tells one to download AnyDVD in case one of your BlueRays can't be played.
It mentions AnyDVD a total of 3 times. It even says it is a protection software ("Schutzsoftware").

So are BD Drive manufacturers now also done with the #copyprotection bullshit?!?

@daemon_nova maybe becaise of #DRM./ #CopyProtection and engine weirdness?

Maybe some fixes @fuchsiii used for Sims 2 help?

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Back in 1986 / '87, when I personally was still in Kindergarten, Two Guy from Andromeda created a fantastic graphic adventure game called "Space Quest". It became an instant hit and spawned several sequels.

Here's the original "Space Quest - Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter", Version 1.2 for Commodore Amiga. Including full KryoFlux streams, CT RAW and ADF disk images. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/sq1_amiga

#RetroGaming #RetroGames #Amiga #SierraOnline #SpaceQuest #GraphicAdventure #CopyProtection #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk

After all this time, SimCity still is one of my favourite video games ever. And after all these years of collecting, I am still finding new stuff!

Today, I just came across a pristine copy protected disk image of SimCity v1.1 for the Amiga. That one will happily run the game without the need to get any codes from the manual. Also today, I found a slightly more modern version of the Terrain Editor documentation, where they removed the instructions for ATARI systems. "Imho" an interesting bit of gaming history!

Yep, I guess I'm a nerd. 😜

#SimCity #Amiga #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroGames #CopyProtection #FloppyDisk #Diskette #Kopierschutz #Workbench

Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!

I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success! 😜

Have fun:
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_box

#LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnline #Amiga #WinUAE #emulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #KryoFlux #InternetArchive #FloppyDisk #CopyProtection

One kind of IBM PC copy protection - intentional physical damage to the disk. #piracy #softwareprotection #copyprotection #ibmpc

When it comes to my retro games collection, I am usually trying to find every variant and every available version of a game. Sometimes, this is pretty easy. For games like "Space Quest I - The Sarien Encounter", it is not.

I just added Version 2.2, Interpreter 2.426, 3.5" / 720K as a copy protected TeleDisk disk image. It works!

#RetroGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGames #DOSGames #SpaceQuest #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Emualtion #86Box #SierraOnline #CopyProtection #TeleDisk #Preservation

Mr Wint’s Investigation Into The Games: Winter Edition’s Copy Protection
This is a deep one. As linked by one for the books over on Metafilter, a GitHub user with the username MrWint was looking at the code of the Olympics-like DOS minigame collection "The Games: Winter Edition." They wondered why it
https://setsideb.com/mr-wints-investigation-into-the-games-winter-editions-copy-protection/
#retro #copyprotection #dos #MrWint #retro #reverseengineering #TheGamesWinterEdition #USGold

Deep dive into how DOS games do copy protection by making themselves unwinnable

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

#HackerNews #DOSGames #CopyProtection #UnwinnableGaming #GamePreservation #RetroGaming

DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

DRM is good for No One

I have some wonderful ebooks I can read them without any hitches on my bigger Androids
However on this small one Amazon Kindle refuses to download the books thus refuses to let me read them

#DRM #Amazon #Kindle #Prime #book #ebook #copyprotection

This one required a bit of research, but I finally managed to get it working:

Jurassic Park for DOS is famous for its on-disk copy protection, so I uploaded a good variety of disk image formats: KryoFlux, TeleDisk, MFM, 86F. All tested and confirmed working on #86Box v4.2.1.

https://archive.org/details/jurassic_park_dos/

Have fun with the dinos!

#RetroGaming #JurassicPark #MSDOS #CopyProtection #KryoFlux

That's s so cool! I had always wanted to add "Krusty's Fun House" for MS-DOS to my retro collection. I've had the floppy disk for years (thanks flyers_80!), but I could never find the correct manual to answer all those pesky copy protection questions.

Tonight I found out, there's a beautiful PDF version of the correct manual within the current eXoDOS collection. All of a sudden, the problem is solved and I can finally play the game! Yay!

If you want it, here's the original disk image, uploaded by flyers_80 in 2017: https://archive.org/details/KrustysFunHouseAcclaim199335Kryoflux.7z

#Simpsons #MSDOS #RetroGaming #CopyProtection #eXoDOS #86Box #Emulation #KryoFlux

Hab grad mal vergeblich versucht, ein Amiga Spiel von IPF ins freie ADF Imageformat umzuwandeln. Kopierschutz sagt "NEIN".

#Amiga #WinUAE #Kopierschutz #CopyProtection #Emulation #FloppyDisk

We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1

#economy #PatronEconomy #CopyProtection #meetings #eventprofs

Interesting pack-in copy protection code sheet for the cassette version of the racing game "Turbo 64" for the Commodore 64. I found the box on my shelf this morning.

#C64 #Commodore64 #Commodore #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #games #gamers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #copyprotection #cassette #Eurosoft #gameboxes #photo #nostalgia #vintage