16 Apr
2007
16 Apr
'07
2:36 p.m.
Do you recall anything about how they coded the
machine ID to the
software disks. I believe I have some add on programs that have not
been installed. Most though have machine ID numbers written on the
floppy disks.
I have a couple of these machines here one has an bad Motherboard.
The copy protection was quite involved. If I recall, all or portions
of the software were encrypted using DES, even when it was stored on
the hard drive. Each system had a unique PAL device that was used as part
of the decryption process so no two systems could share the same encrypted
copy of the software.
James Markevitch