This is beautiful, but the real takeaway should be that even proprietary software you only have binaries for is still mutable. The computer runs the code you want it to run. We always need to maintain that and prevent scenarios where general purpose computers stop being the default.
We were always doing this kind of thing on these platforms. This is how we used to hack copy protection out of games.
Stepping through, line by line, editing the code and adding JMPs to get around the copy protection code after loading the magic numbers into the register...
Then they started loading the protection code from disk doing tricky things. One I cracked recently was a pair of Commodore 1541 sectors that appeared to be the same logical sector (because the drive head is blind). It needed to hit both of them to compile the next portion of the loader. Naturally the segment up to that point was encrypted as well, but nothing survives a VICE breakpoint. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/cracking-designwares-gra...
Obviously this is nothing on things like V-MAX! and Rapidlok which even nowadays have variations that are tough to remaster.
I thought option-resize was supposed to resize the default (new document) window?
My recent pet peeve is that macOS doesn't seem to remember window sizes and locations properly. Things are certainly complicated by multi-monitor setups, but it seems like some sensible default behavior could be implemented.
I don't dislike the column browser, but I wish macOS would preserve/revive its spatial UI in both the Finder and document window positions.
Stepping through, line by line, editing the code and adding JMPs to get around the copy protection code after loading the magic numbers into the register...
Happy, happy times.
Obviously this is nothing on things like V-MAX! and Rapidlok which even nowadays have variations that are tough to remaster.
My recent pet peeve is that macOS doesn't seem to remember window sizes and locations properly. Things are certainly complicated by multi-monitor setups, but it seems like some sensible default behavior could be implemented.
I don't dislike the column browser, but I wish macOS would preserve/revive its spatial UI in both the Finder and document window positions.