We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.
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Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!
I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success! 
Have fun:
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_box
We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/new-patron-economy-part-1
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@pluralistic
A theory of change [for the #EU, and the #GlobalSouth]: Ditch #IPlaws and #copyprotection, and set #interoperability free!!
"America's robust GDP figures are a mirage, artificially buoyed up by the monopoly rents extracted by #USBigTech, who prey on Americans AND foreigners.
But foreigners don't have to tolerate this nonsense. Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores—for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets—to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With #Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech."
We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.
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@FritzAdalis @fl0und3r @fence Granted, #OpenBSD usually removes #complexity and stuff that can't be #secured to their standards, and I do applaud them for that.
- Even tho it comes at the cost of a system that isn't easy to get started with, since one's experience and intuition from #Linux won't help one here...
That being said even tho I despise #Netflix, they moved to #FreeBSD as that cuts down on their specific hardware needs, which is ne net and gross positive for the world and #BSD's as they'll need less hardware, datacenter floorspace, cooling, power and thus reduce the impact of their business.
- Tho it's not because Netflix is envoirmentally concious or some other #greenwashing reason, but because their infrastructure is more expensive than personnel and cutting down 5% cost at that is saving them millions even if they pay their BSD engineers 10x to their Linux counterparts.
OFC for #commercial users, BSDs are always more preferable as #GPLv2 of #Linux would basically make it hard to do the "security by obscurity" part of #DRM & #CopyProtection they want on stuff like #GameConsoles.
- BSD is way more permissive and I do like that.
Sadly for many, Linux won for most "mainstream" applications to the point that outside nieche cases, it's a rounding error in statistics.
- That being said many innovations do get adopted where possible, like #OpenZFS support (tho AFAIK OpenBSD lacks that for the aforementioned complexity reasons)...
Thanks to Digitoxin and the generosity of the retro gaming community, we finally have working MFM disk images of the legendary "Book Club" version of Lemmings - perfectly compatible with the 86Box emulator! This version from 1991 includes a few very unique and tricky levels. An awesome addition to game preservation!
Here's Digitoxin's Psygnosis PC Floppy Disk Image Collection:
https://archive.org/details/20230505_20230505_0859
Have fun!
We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.
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Creating TeleDisk images for a few more copy protected DOS games. Looks like there are some weird sector sizes! Let's hope they will work as intended.
Almost three years after my initial upload of these Space Quest II game disks, I just added a variety of new protected disk image formats. You can now choose between TeleDisk, HxC MFM and 86F. All of them tested and confirmed working with the latest 86Box v4.2.
https://archive.org/details/spacequest_ii_kfx
Have fun!
If you like to play the original Lemmings for MS-DOS, here's a working disk image. Using the latest 86Box v4.2, the .TD0 image is 100% accepted as a protected key disk. Have fun!
When it comes to "on-disk" copy protection, the Lemmings key-disk is usually quite annoying. Luckily, my copy does not seem to have that infamous "weak bit" check, so 86Box is able to run it perfectly fine from a TeleDisk .td0 image.
Still, I wanted a little bit more convenience, so I used a hex editor on RUSSELL.DAT to crack the game. Simple, yet satisfying... 
Wusstet ihr, dass man sich für das Spiel "The Secret of Monkey Island" ganz einfach die MONKEY.EXE (v5.0.19) aus einer englischen Installation rüberkopieren kann, um eine komplett kopierschutzfreie, deutsche Version zu erhalten? Die Sprache hängt nämlich absolut nicht am SCUMM Interpreter.
Leider funktioniert dieser Trick nur mit der VGA Version des Spiels.
Mmmh... I just spent the last two hours trying to convert a KryoFlux stream of the original "SpaceQuest I" into a disk image working within 86Box.
So far, it's still complaining. 
Found this in a drawer at my parent's apartment. Any guess as to which 1994/95 game (MS-DOS version) these copy protection codes are for? 
In the original these codes are in the back of the manual. The manual for the MS-DOS version doesn't seem to have been preserved online anywhere.
Edit: Technically the DOS version says 1995, while the Mega Drive version says 1994. Sources vary on which was the actual release date.
We are becoming a patron economy. In the future, content creation will be increasingly supported by the subsidy of patrons.
