Dongle Protection

The oddly named protection device called a DONGLE was plugged into the Commodore’s tape port or the joystick ports. When the program would load it would check for this Dongle, if it was there the program would load, if not the program would not.

Here a list of Commodore software that I know used a Dongle as it’s form of copy protection.

10th Frame: used the dongle on the tape port
Coco
Coco 2
Insta-Calc (some version)
Leaderboard
Leaderboard World Class
Neutral Zone
Paper Clip’s dongle fits into the Joyport,

PClip-DonglePClip-Dongleb.jpg

Code Wheel Copy Protection

This type of protection is not disk based, but something that came with a game that you had to make up items on the wheel and enter data into the game for it to start.
So you could usually copy the disk easily, but need this device to play.

The most famous example is the code wheel from the Secret of Monkey Island.
sec-monkey-code

Some others include

Bard’s Tale III
Monkey Island 2
Neuromancer
Out of this World
Pool of Radiance
Secret of Monkey Island
Zany Golf

Super Parameters

Super Parameters (1987)Utilities Unlimited has many parameters. I have the Super Parameters disk #2, #3, #4 and #5. Each had 100 parameters on it. Then there was also the Super Parameters 500 Pack. This has 500 different parameters not found on the 100 packs. SO does that mean that Utilities Unlimited released 1000 parameters?????

Hey I am missing Super Parameter Disk #1, anyone have that???
The Silver Series Vol 1 printout was included in my Vol 4 disk!

I have NEVER seen these packs.
Did they exist, let me know.

 

 

 

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