piracy Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/piracy/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:24:04 +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 piracy Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/piracy/ 32 32 146320098 Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:12:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1982 Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/feed/ 0 1982 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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