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- SOFTWARE PIRATES INC.
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- F-15 Strike Eagle Unprotect
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- This file will tell you how to unprotection F-15 Strike Eagle by Micro
- Prose. To complete this unprotection you will need the following:
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- 1. A good copy program like BACKUP.EXE or COPYIIPC.EXE.
- 2. DEBUG.COM can be found on your DOS disk.
- 3. U-FORMAT.EXE can be found on most Bulletin Boards.
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- BACKGROUND: The copy protection scheme used by Micro Prose on F-15 Strike Eagle
- is very good. I have found no commercial copy program that can make a
- usable backup copy of this disk. The F-15 master disk has track 10
- specially made. Track 10 has 16 sector ids on it instead of the normal
- 8 or 9. Using COPYIIPC, track 10 will be reproduced with only 10 ids on
- it. When F-15 boots up it verifies, in two places, that all 16 sector
- ids exists. The sectors on track 10 contain no usable data. F-15 just
- makes sure that they exists. Knowing this we can go in and patch F-15
- so that it doesn't check track 10 at all. After patching the program
- we can go in and re-format track 10 to normal sector size. With this
- done, you will have a working copy of F-15 Strike Eagle that can be
- copied by DISKCOPY.COM.
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- Step 1: Make a backup copy of your master F-15 Strike Eagle disk. Your copy
- program must be able to handle non-DOS sector sizes. Norell BACKUP or
- Central Point COPYIIPC can do this. Remember to copy both sides of
- the disk, F-15 is double-sided. Once you have copied the master
- disk put it away. You will not be needing it again.
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- NOTE: The backup copy just made will not function ... yet. When you are done
- with Step 2, the disk will run. When you are done with Step 3, the
- disk will be DISKCOPYable.
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- Step 2: Load DEBUG into memory. Put F-15 backup copy into drive A. From the
- DEBUG prompt '-', enter the following:
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- -l 0 0 36 1<CR>
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- This command will load the 7th sector on track 3 side 0 into memory.
- At this point we want to patch the two locations that check track 10
- for 16 sector ids. To do this type the following:
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- -e123 E9 11 10 90<CR>
- -e19B E9 11 10 90<CR>
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- Now we want to write the changes back to disk. To do this type the
- following:
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- -w 0 0 36 1<CR>
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- At this point your backup disk will now function!
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- Step 3: Now we want to re-format track 10 to normal double-sided track.
- U-FORMAT.EXE will do this job quite well. You want to format track
- 10 with 8 sectors on 2 sides.
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- Having completed the above 3 steps, you will have a working copy of
- F-15 Strike Eagle the can be copied by DISKCOPY.COM.
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