On 17 Jan 2007 at 13:53, Richard wrote:
As with copy protection in the past, activation
protection will be
reverse engineered and patched out in order to keep abandonware
running -- assuming people care enough to do the work. Now, what's
really important is to keep the bits archived, even if they are
license locked. Eventually someone may care and by then having the
archived bits is what will count.
Back in the bad old days, it was pretty easy to unlock protection
schemes. Nowadays, what with warez lists and crackz lists being
published, software producers have had to resort to some very
elaborate schemes. Yes, it's possible that someone may want to
unravel them in the future, but given the size of the task, I'm not
holding my breath.
I thought people had reported problems with QIC medium
recently?
It depends on the medium. The large DC600/6150/6250 seem to be
pretty robust--at least I've had no problems reading old specimens.
The smaller media, such as DC1000/2000/2120 etc. were never any good
to start with. I have absolutely no confidence that a tape from a
Pereos drive would be readable today.
Cheers,
Chuck