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The Amiga Action Replay Utilities v2.01 *HELP*
Hi,
once upon a time, in a long and distant valley, I bought my shiny new Amiga Action Replay (v1.5) in a shop in Milan - Italy - named NEWEL / NUOVA NEWEL. Along with the "official" utility floppy (which was contained in the sealed package) I received a custom floppy, made by NEWEL's staff, which I could never run on my Amiga 500. This floppy has a strange bootblock. When you insert it in the drive, it then jumps to track 80 and there remains, with a red screen. The strange thing is that track 80 is absolutely empty, and the disk has no protections (I remember having asked them about it). I wanted to get a replacement, but time passed, I lived far from the shop (in another city) and I never got one. I was happy with the AAR and its "official" floppy and didn't think any more about it. However, I still have that floppy ![]() (perhaps I'm the only one having it, but I hope not) So, I dumped it into a nice new .adf file. I uploaded two versions to The Zone: - one with the original bootblock (the one which jumps to track 80). I don't know if it's a protection, a virus or whatever. If someone finds it out I would be glad to know, after all these years - one with a normal bootblock. This one loads, shows some loading screens, credits etc., but at the end it shows a severe error onscreen and you have to reset Is someone able to tell me where is the issue? ![]() EDIT: of course I tried it in WinUAE, with a loaded AAR 1.5 ROM, but with the same results ![]() Last edited by Supamax; 05 April 2009 at 02:56. Reason: typos |
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The utility disk is copy protected. Same style of protection as Insector Hecti in the Interchange by Hi-Tec software.
Bootblock is encrypted, decrypts then reads protection track 80, on track 80 is a new bootblock that gets copied over the old one thats already loaded in memory, it must set up a variable that is then checked by the file 'loader'. Et Voila Last edited by Galahad/FLT; 05 April 2009 at 02:36. |
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![]() So I was given a faulty disk? Damned NEWEL! ![]() Is there a way to crack it? ![]() |
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Galahad to the rescue!
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![]() And perhaps some day someone (owning a working original) will read this thread and dump it in extended adf format (including track 80). Or he could use Powercopy. I would give him my help in dumping it ![]() |
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hi Galahad,
did you (or some other cracking genius here in EAB) have some time to give a look at the protection? ![]() P.S. I tried to PM you, but you don't often read them ![]() |
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@ StingRay
Thanks, your effort is very much appreciated! ![]() |
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Here's little teaser what I have managed so far (2 traps "emulated", 2 still left to do).
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Ok, had a bit more fun with it and it seems it fully works now. Didn't really test it much though. Anyway, attached is cracked disk image, have fun. Could be a nice one for a cracking tutorial.
![]() Edit: would be nice to see the original disk one day as I'd like to see what the original bootblock does. ![]() Last edited by StingRay; 29 April 2009 at 14:11. |
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But I understand it may be very difficult to explain it to noobs like me. Quote:
But I don't know how many people could have it ![]() Last edited by Supamax; 29 April 2009 at 19:45. |
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By the way, StingRay, since no one dumped&cracked this one before, how could we name it for - let's say - TOSEC?
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Hi again StingRay,
which are "good" answers (for an A500 basic config) to the following questions? - Where can I put my ripper routine? - Where is located the buffer? ![]() |
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Just use some free memory area, I used $50000/$60000. |
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I tried it a little, and it seems to work
![]() Thank you very much! It's a pity they (the authors) didn't write a manual. Or they did and I was not given it. Now, StingRay, are you in the mood of having more "fun" and completely crack Powercopy? ![]() |
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My pleasure. As for PowerCopy, it's been quite a while since I last had a look at it but it's not forgotten, one day I'll defeat it!
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