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by ssdsa 2273 days ago
I wonder if he really was afraid of the government, or if he was just tried to keep his brother from loading the games. The part where he actually cuts the physical tape is great. The funny thing is that, without cutting the tape, anybody can load the games any way, just like this: Rewind the tape. LOAD the first program (i.e. the password program). Note that the tape is positioned after the password program now. Reset the C64. Enter LOAD to load the actual game.
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Or rewind, reset the counter, load the protection, write down the number in one of those math copy books and fast forward to the same number every time. I still have a box full of tapes and those books.