California Games Copy Protection

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I ran across this great article on Codetapper’s C64 site and wanted to share the link.

California Games intro on the C64

There was a quote from Chuck Sommerville about how great the copy protection was on California Games (it was Vorpal).

The article does a great job debunking the claim that all cracked versions of Summer Games came from the US Gold Cassette release.

Talking to crackers from Eagle Soft Incorporated

Eagle Soft Incorporated cracktro for California Games

When I downloaded games from BBS’s back in the day here in the USA, Eagle Soft was the most common cracking group, from the games I grabbed. But here is the link to this great article: https://codetapper.com/c64/rants/california-games-c64-copy-protection/

This is a must and great read! Thank you Codetapper.

Datel Toolkit IV

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Datel Toolkit IV – The Ultimate Disk Toolkit (the ad claims) – cost just $14.99

1. Disk Doctor V2 – Read & Write any track & sector, Repair damaged sectors, look underneath read errors

2. Header/Gap editor – Decodes & Displays ALL header information, including off bytes and gaps.

3. Disk Look – Sort a directory, Recover lost files, Display file start & end addresses. Disassemble any file directly from disk, Edit the BAM, and more

4. File Compactor – Can compact machine programs by up to 50%

5. Fast Disk Copy – Copies an entire disk in 2 minutes or less

6. Fast File Copy – Copies files up to 6 times faster

7. Formatter – Formats a disk in 10 seconds, Or format any track or half track

8. Error Edit – Quickly find and recreate all read errors – more

Download the D64 here: Toolkit 4 (TOOLS) (DS)

 

ZoomFloppy Set Up Windows

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The ZoomFloppy is a great tool to copy floppy disk directly from a PC to a 1541 floppy drive. I use it all of the time. But installing the software or a Windows 10 or 11 computer can be super frustrating. I even forgot some of these steps after migrating to a new PC.
No mater what I tried I kept getting a error: NO PLUGIN DRIVER
This video below and a program called Zadig was the solution.

Breakers – Password

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BREAKERS by Broderbund

Breakers is a science fiction-themed interactive fiction video game published in 1986 by Synapse Software, which was then a division of Broderbund. The game was the last of Broderbund’s “Electronic Novels” series, and was not a commercial success.

During the loading you are asked to flip the disk over to side two. Then is will ask you for a PASSWORD to start the game. It’s one of those annoying manual look up things, you know, what is the 4th word on line 2 on page 5. Well here are the answers.

 

Click or download the list HERE: breakers-passwords