Posted by Glenn Bruner
(ginger221.u1.cos.pcisys.net) on January 27, 2001 at 17:21:59: Well, not much of a story to tell.
Before I joined the Air Force in 1984...oh wait a minute, not my life story!
I'm from Silicon Valley and still have a friend from High School who I have He found a obscure 88meg Syquest cartridge for me recently. It took me a
little Well, I used an old Centris 660AV Macintosh running MagicMac to read the
disk. Talk After careful picking through of the files on the disk I found a file called
TYPEAB.XXX. I didn't mention this in the README because I didn't expect people to really
care how it The interesting thing about the file name mentioned above is TYPE AB.
Universal blood donor Told John Hardie about it and that's when he mentioned that Lynx Encryption
was also found. That's it. Just glad I was able to give a fine contribution to the Jaguar
community.
Glenn Bruner
keep an eye out for stuff in surplus shops.
while to find a Syquest drive to read it on. I only had a 44meg drive. I managed
to find one on Ebay for $14 (200Meg drive).
about a round about way to read a ST disk. But my 1040STFM doesn't do SCSI and
this was
a method I used to read some Syquest disks that were pulled out of Atari's
dumpsters when
they closed down in '96.
Didn't think much of it. Open it up with a hex editor. I noticed something very
familar
about the file. I've looked at enough Jaguar cart images with a hex editor
trying to hack
the ROM encryption code several years ago. Since I have an Alpine board now, I
fired it up
and did the test that I described in the README file. I was amazed at the
results I got.
was found. Boy have I been wrong!!
type! Pretty sneaky cover name for a file.
He asked me if we could announce this on the CG Expo page. I agreed since it
would get more
exposure that way.
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