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Comment by dehrmann

> I must say, this copy protection mechanism seems a bit… simplistic? A hardware dongle that just passes back a constant number?

Seems like it was an appropriate amount of engineering. Looks like this took between an afternoon and a week with the help of an emulator and decompiler. Imagine trying to do this back then without those tools.

parent dehrmann 9 months ago

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