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such a cool idea to practice different languages! i spent the whole day porting these two to rust 😂

Tenho estes livros até hoje, desde 1984 quando tinha 13 anos. 🥰

Omg i remember that book and the artwork 😮

One of the things that the Apple 2 would do is the publisher would modify the format of the disk so that you could not copy it with a normal utility. What we found was that the normal DOS RWTS routines (Read Write Track Sector) would be modified and loaded into the top of system memory and the game would use that to read the modified format. So once the game was loaded into memory, we would break into the monitor and load the copy utility Muffin into memory at $1000. Then we would locate the protected RWTS in RAM and update the hooks for reading in Muffin to point to that RWTS and muffin had a copy of the normal RWTS built in so once the hooks pointed to the game's version or RWTS we could tell Muffin to just copy and it would read the protected format using the game's RWTS and then write it in normal disk format stripping out any oddball format data they used for a protection scheme. Easy :)

so you just take the cap out and don't replace it with anything?

Always a pleasure watching your video, well done. Cheers!

I had one of those illegible brown codebooks for a C64 game. I didn't like the game enough to want to pirate it.

My friend was a programmer . He would crack C-64 games. There were games that would ask you to look at the book at a certain page and give the answer in order to run the game. It was random of course. He would remove that passkey and the game would run. I loved it when he would put a trainer mode, so you would have unlimited lives..

do you replace the capacitor with a new one, or just remove it ?

The irony of playing Halo on OG Xbox on a Sony screen.

I have a revision of the console with a toshiba dvd drive I believe. When I opened mine, I couldn't figure out which to remove so I left it. Nothing was leaking though.

I like this video, I was around 3 in 1990 when I started using a CPC 464. Now in a career in tech, but old tech is just so much more eccentric with such interesting nuances between systems. Shout out to one of the best games (Without silly DRM). Head over Heels!

PSA: Not all clock caps need removed. If I'm not mistaken, there are two types of clock capacitors; an all black one marked Aerogel, and a gold and black one labeled nichicon. The nichicon's are on all 1.6 boards and some 1.4 boards. (my Halo edition and one other 1.4 board came with a nichicon.) The Aerogels are an instant remove, no questions asked. The nichicon only need removed if they are bulging. Nichicon is a Japan company and of a much higher quality and longevity. We are at the 20 year mark since the OG XBOX release so its a toss up. I have two XBOXes in service, both with original nichicon caps, both showing no bulging. As far as recapping, doing the entire board, is not always necessary. I've done a whole board including the little silver flush mounted ones...they are not fun. There is a site that does list all the potential caps you may find on an OG XBOX and how important it is to replace them. General consensus is that the big ones close to the PSU and power connector should always be replaced, especially if the are of lower quality. Also, don't forget that the PSU also has caps too. Finally, don't trust ebay or Amazon caps and especially 'kits'. They could be fakes. This is why I will never buy a recapped console off ebay. You don't know what they used. The website console5 is a great place to get high quality cap kits and you can by the kits in different packages like for the whole board, or for just the PSU regulators or even the PSU. They do offer replacement clock caps too. (no affiliation) Ok, really last thing, if you remove the clock cap, a modded XBOX with a custom dashboard connected to the internet, can be setup to auto-update the system clock.

too late 5 years ago!

Car boot = yard sale?

I loved those titles where they gamified it. As a kid, it was a fun (although part of copyright we didn’t think of that) and became part of the game. Remember one I had where you got different coloured filters (like a red transparent film) you had to put over different coloured code papers. And it was a challenge solving the puzzle to get in to the game.

your so smart... and purdy!

1:24 giggity

Ah... my kind of topic. I used to be part of a pirate warez group where we crack the copy protection of games. Hehehehe..

Ah the 8BitDo Kebs.

Dang, you are some woman.

Great video and I loved your accent; plus you are a very beautiful young lady 💗

Just Subscribed interesting video. My Xbox doesn’t read any discs anymore does anyone know what could be the problem as it used to read them.. I’ve tried using a dvd cleaning cd to no avail. Thanks in advance.

I own this book, still. :) Wasn't the artwork great, no CGI? But airbrush, which was hugely popular at the time. Time to get the old 'Beeb'Em' up and running. I do remember seeing, but not using one of these back at the time, they were one of the main choices, imported from England and running 'Elite'. The person was in the 4th Galaxy and had happened upon the infamous 'Dredger' ship. At the time and even to this day, this was an amazing piece of code. Using some very clever, compression al-go's and just amazing scope for the day, all within 32Kb. :) The modern version is now nearly 70 plus Gigabytes. :) But it's pedigree still shines, as written by one of the two original programmers and his team. David Brayben. Please everyone if you get the chance, check it out. To see what is truly possible with such limited resources and a whole lot of clever. :)

I was blown away by the concept of Lenslok when I first played Elite. Amazing idea but so bloody annoying.

You have the heaviest Colin Ritman vibes! The thumbnail for this video and the frame from Bandersnatch you guys look so close, basically only a different gender. Look it up! It's poignant.

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While it was very informative video, I would be interested in how its done in code. Surely that was crackable.

You could get the record into a early 1970s IBM 8inch floppy disk drive. The originals stored a whopping 80 KB

She says the fun bit is the coding, haha Love the content Kari

I did this on my wife's Xbox she had from back in the day a couple months ago.... then back to storage for it. I hate Xbox but not enough to let it die.

I remember trying to write the TMNT codes down on paper so I could copy it but gave up in the end. 😠

It was just a year since i tell to myself "uhm, maybe it's better to change that capacitor on my og xbox"... it have 3 leaking caps, but fortunately they don't have dameged the board! Now i have only to open a second one and spread the voice to my other friend! Thanks for the video!

the copy protection booklet wasnt really a big deal, because everybody had photocopies of a handwritten copy

Great Video Kari UTV

Whoa! Flash back! I haven't seen an xbox since I was a kid. Back when playing Halo and Fables was the coolest thing ever. It was an easier time.

I was there :) good times. The might and magic games were always a pain for me.

So, you simply removed a capacitor without replacing it, and the xbox just worked? What was the purpose of the capacitor, then? Is it like removing tonsils?

You kids and your Python. Back in my day we had C++ and we were happy to have it. 😅

Older solder is so much easier ;) Blame the lead! I hate the new modern stuff, it doesn't flow as nicely but then again lead is bad for you!

Fantastic - loved this. I grew up with a BBC and these books. Was always more into coding than the games themselves.

I'm disgusted with the fact I'm now old enough to where I'm glad a 21y/o "child" is exploring and appreciating things from my childhood.

You need to stop biting your nails young lady.

So, litt'l gurl, you did not mod an Atari 2600 you replaced the RF Modulator?

cool channel! glad I stumbled here

I am loving your Channel 😊

I did it already....

I remember writing out the whole of a code pamphlet word for word by hand just to be able to play the cracked game :-D. (the old, page 2, para4, word 2 type code)

I've still got one of those, boxed...