Zero-Knowledge cracking of a 1983 Apple II Hardware Copy Protection
Feb 5, 2027 — 05:00 pm - 5:50 PMCloud
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Abstract
I have cracked HUNDREDS of copy-protected games and other software in my youth, but all of it was on the IBM PC x86 platform. When a fellow retro-computing collector found a hardware-dongle copy-protected historic Hebrew software for the Apple IIe from 1983, I jumped on the opportunity even though I knew absolutely NOTHING about the computer, its architecture, or operating system. In this talk I'll walk you through my learning process and figuring out things as I go, on my journey to find the copy protection and crack it.






















