---The Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle--- A 4am crack 2020-08-14 --------------------------------------- Name: Scott Adams Graphic Adventure #13 The Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle Version: 2.2/122 Genre: adventure Year: 1984 Credits: Scott Adams Publisher: Adventure International Platform: Apple ][+ or later Media: 5.25-inch disk Sides: 2 OS: DOS 3.3 Previous cracks: none (of this version) This disk was automatically cracked by Passport. Here is the transcript: --v-- Reading from S6,D1 T00,S00 Found DOS 3.3 bootloader Using disk's own RWTS Writing to RAM disk T1E,S07 Found Adventure International protection check T1E,S07,$62: 8514D6 -> D159A7 T02,S02 Volume name is DISK VOLUME 254 Writing to S6,D2 Crack complete. Press any key --^-- More information and source code is available at https://archive.org/details/Passport4am Passport deprotects side A without any additional patches. Track $22 is unreadable because that was the protection track checked by the code on side B (now patched). A quick note on the loading screen that says "Flip disk over and hit ": it is visibly corrupted. The corruption also shows up when booting the original disk on real hardware. Two separate flux images show that the disk itself has no physical damage. Furthermore, the flux images confirm that all sectors on the disk were written at the same time, which rules out user- initiated damage. The disk was mastered and shipped with this data corruption. We also know from classic cracks that there is at least one later build (2.2/126) which fixes the corrupted loading screen. So it seems that the publisher was aware of it but unable to fix it before shipping this version. Quod erat liberandum. --------------------------------------- A 4am crack No. 2274 ------------------EOF------------------