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   qkumba to All   
   Re: ProDOS port discussion   
   24 Oct 21 11:23:20   
   
   From: peter.ferrie@gmail.com   
      
   > > Star Maze 16k file (the Sir-Tech one).    
   >    
   > Were you able to find a clean original for this? I've only seen cracked   
   copies.    
      
   Yes!  4am acquired an original disk last(?) week and cracked it himself.   
      
   > The deprotect I found in a COMPUTIST was pretty simple, but it didn't quite   
   match up with the generally-available binary. That binary has routines to save   
   high scores to disk, hard-wired to slot 6, but they're disabled. I think   
   there's also a copy-   
   protection check at $7ed6 (EORs $9c00-9cff) that got disabled to add "> ZERO   
   PAGE <" to the congratulatory text strings.   
      
   My version saves the high scores, and the $7ED6 is not copy-protection - it's   
   validating the high-score table hasn't been tampered.  4am got fooled in the   
   same way. :-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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