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- UNPROTECT BROWN BAG WORD PROCESSOR Version 2.55
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- The following unprotection scheme is for the diskette that was distributed with
- the April 15, 1986, issue of "PC". At the time of this writing, the code is
- known to start, but it is unknown if there is a secret gotcha.
-
- Anyway do the following:
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- 1. Insert original into drive A:
- 2. Insert a formatted diskette into drive A:
- 3. Enter: COPY A:*.* B:
- 4. Remove diskette from drive A: and put it away.
- 5. Enter: B: (Change to drive B:)
- 6. Enter: REN ED.EXE ED.XXX
- 7. Enter: DEBUG ED.XXX
- 8. Enter: U E7BC
- 9. You should see the following:
- xxxx:E7BC CD13 INT 13
- xxxx:E7BE 7249 JB E809
- xxxx:E7C0 8A87FF01 MOV AL,[BX+01FF]
- (more lines follow)
- 10. If you don't see the above three lines, forget it.
- 11. Enter: E E7BC EB A1
- 12. Enter: U E7BC
- 13. You should now see the following line:
- xxxx:E7BC EBA1 JMP E75F
- 14. Enter: U 2B9D
- 15. You should see the following lines:
- xxxx:2B9D 9A0000470C CALL 0C47:0000
- xxxx:2BA2 9AFE8E2C03 CALL 032C:8EFE
- xxxx:2BA7 C7061AEF0000 MOV WORD PTR [EF1A],0000
- 16. If you don't see the above three lines, something is really wrong,
- since you got the first change. I would give up again.
- 17. Enter: E 2B9D EB 03
- 18. Enter: U 2B9D
- 19. You should now see the first line changed to:
- xxxx:2B9D EB03 JMP 2BA2
- xxxx:2B9F 00470C ADD [BX+0C],AL
- 20. Enter: W
- 21. Enter: Q
- 22. Enter: REN ED.XXX ED.EXE
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- The first code change removes the copy protection checking routine and the
- second change removes the number of tries checking. These changes can be
- done, even after the three tries has been used up.
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- That is it. The program is now ready to use. You can install it on the hard
- disk by just copying the files from the floppy to the hard disk. Don't use
- the programs included.
-
- As a side note, you can not print the manuals using the PR command. You must
- print them using something else, as imbedded printer controller commands are
- in the file and PR tries to do them, failing.
-
- As another little tidbit of information, you can get more than three tries
- if you had made a copy of the original diskette BEFORE using any of your tries.
- The file AFILEONE.TXT contains the number of tries. You keep a copy of that
- around and when you use it three times, you copy the backup copy to
- AFILEONE.TXT and you end up with three more tries. The AFILEONE.TXT is not
- needed and can be removed from the hard disk, if you did the above stuff.
-
- 3/14/86
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- ore tries. The AFILEONE.TXT is not
- needed and can be removed from the hard disk, if you