4am Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/4am/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:15:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png 4am Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/4am/ 32 32 146320098 microM8 Update: Apple II+ emulation and SpiraDisc support http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/27/microm8-update-apple-ii-emulation-and-spiradisc-support/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/27/microm8-update-apple-ii-emulation-and-spiradisc-support/#respond Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:15:35 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1891 Once again, Apple II super-cracker 4am has provided us with a challenge. SpiraDisc was a complicated copy-protection system used with some Apple II games such as Frogger and Jawbreaker to prevent piracy. Every quarter-rotation of [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/27/microm8-update-apple-ii-emulation-and-spiradisc-support/feed/ 0 1891 Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am. http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cracker-the-secrets-of-4am/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cracker-the-secrets-of-4am/#respond Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:53:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=693 Why did you choose to start aggressively de-protecting, archiving and re-distributing Apple II software? It’s tempting to rewrite history and give myself some noble purpose for starting this hobby, but in this case the truth [more...]

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