#copy-protection on Hacker News

2 stories tagged copy-protection, newest first.

Screenshot of werwolv.net: Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 17 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.

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Screenshot of dmitrybrant.com: Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)

793 points by zdw 8 months ago | 251 comments

Dmitry Brant's blog post about reverse engineering and bypassing a decades-old parallel-port copy protection dongle for legacy software.

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#copy-protection on Hacker News

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle(dmitrybrant.com)

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)