Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dudek From: dudek@utcsrgv.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Request for help with ProDOS Message-ID: <113@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 20:23:55 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.113 Posted: Thu Oct 18 20:23:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 20:56:00 EDT Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 24 Well, my sources indicate (although I HAVE NOT VERIFIED IT) that ProDOS goes & looks in Monitor ROM for the word "APPLE ][". If it does not find it, it fails to boot. This rumor comes from a guy who works at a store that sells apple ][ "clones", so I think it's pretty reliable. Given this fact, the patch is pretty obvious; just check the ref. manual for the address & find the reference to it in ProDOS. I agree it it seems strange of Apple to protect their software this way. It was my understanding that most of the bad old clone makers had been run out of business. In that case, would it not be reasonable of apple to try & make ProDos as generally acceptable as possible? Even to those people who had purchased those distasteful copies. Or was it just that they couldn't resist the chance to punish the people that had bought rip-off machines. [I don't begrudge people for buying the cheapest product, but I think it is/was a pity that the clone-makers were able to do as well as they did with such obviously unethical copies. I think the legal system did not show itself very well on this one.] BTW, I had heard earlier that ProDOS looked at the disk controller. Maybe it checks both for authenticity. Greg Dudek -- Gregory Dudek {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!dudek