Subj : Re: UltraSoft doors
To   : Exodus
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu May 02 2024 11:31 am

A> I logged in to check the games out, one note - when I 
A> used /G to quit to the main BBS, I was disconnected.

 E> Yeah the main BBS should hang you up with /G .... the 
 E> comport bbs should just 
 E> disconnect you back to the main bbs with /G.

It must have been a glitch - yesterday I was disconnected when I used /G from the comport BBS - just now I called to try it again and prove that I got hung up on... And it worked fine - /G dropped me back to the main BBS, like it should.

A> I tried AHRA Pro Drags and the race seemed to happen in the blink of an eye

 E> Yeah ... I might have to run MOSLO on it .... but back in the day it was 
 E> awesome. :)

When I tried running it in DOSBox with CPU cycles limited to ~486 speed, the game did seem to run better, so I think you're right slowing it down a bit should fix it.

 E> I see you grabbed them.

I did!  And also realized that Acey Deucey is an UltraSoft door and I had already taken a quick peek at that, and then put it aside for a bit because the .EXE is packed and I haven't found an unpacker.

I looked a bit at AHRA Pro Drags v1.8 and it also is packed - presumably all the UltraSoft doors will be using the same system.

UNP 4.12 did not work to unpack the .EXEs, maybe there's another unpacker that will recognize these .EXEs - after it's successfully unpacked, the crack/keygen process would be similar to others I've completed (but while the .EXE is packed, everything is too obfuscated to be able to crack).  If I don't find an existing unpacker, I'll have to learn how to unpack it myself so it'll be a bit of an extended project.


Summary: The UltraSoft doors are on my list of interesting software to crack, but may stay on the list for a while due to the need to unpack .EXEs.  If anyone has different unpackers to try, this information would be really useful.


Chris/akacastor


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