[Coco] Window Master

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Heh, spoken like a true rogue!

Chet and I worked together for a time back in the mid 1990s at Microware.  If anyone thinks that I can be a bit brash and abrasive at times, you really have to meet Chet!

He's one helluva programmer too...

Boisy

On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:


> That reminds me of a funny story as noted in a Chet Simpson interview by

> Nick Marentes, 12 years ago:

> 

> http://www.vavasour.ca/cfdm/issue65/article20.txt

> 

> <http://www.vavasour.ca/cfdm/issue65/article20.txt>And I quote:

> 

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> 

> Q: Can you tell us any interesting "stories" of your past development days?

> 

> A: There are a few that stick out in my mind, but one single one more than

> anything...

> 

> Early in my programming days, somewhere around 1985/86, I was visiting with

> Bill Vergona (then owner of Cer-Comp in Las Vegas). I had been asking him

> questions about various programming techniques and he was being a little

> stiff on giving answers to everything I asked him. Then all of a sudden, he

> pops out with "nothing you write will ever be as good as my software" or at

> least something to that effect. What was even more interesting was that in

> almost the same breath he also said that "nobody will ever be able to crack

> the protection scheme I use."

> 

> Well, I never quite forgot about that. So a little while after he had made

> those comments, I had a friend of mine back east mail me his disks of

> programs that Bill had written (CBasic, EDT/ASM 64) and pulled my stuff I had

> bought from him. I sat down for a few hours and after a while had removed the

> protection from every single one of his programs.

> 

> So, being the obnoxious kid I was, I just had to call him up and tell him

> about it. Needless to say, he was fuming. What was more interesting was that

> a few months later, a letter from him appeared in Rainbow talking about

> pirated copies of his software, much of which was blown out of proportion.

> 

> NOTE: The software was legally obtained and were purchased from Cer-Comp.

> They were returned to the original owner at a later date. No copies of the

> cracked software were ever distributed. Those copies which were 'cracked' by

> 'RamMan' were not obtained from me nor anyone else in this story].

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> 

> -- Rogelio

> 

> 

> 

> 

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net

>> wrote:

> 

>> Andrew wrote:

>> 

>>> Several digests ago there was a poster asking about Window Master. I own

>>> an actual copy of it, but I can't remember if it was copy-protected in

>>> the same manner as CBASIC-3 (another Cer-Comp product, which I also own

>>> a copy of), or if it wasn't copy-protected at all?

>>> 

>> 

>> The disk is copy protected with oddball track and sector numbers. The

>> program expects a track35 with sectors 98, 99, and 20. Sector 20 has WM for

>> the last two bytes. Sectors 99 have the logical sector number in the last

>> byte, 0-16.

> 

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