# Apple II: Cracking

When pirating Apple II games, the challenge was to make it as easy to transfer the files as possible. Since 300 baud could mean a full disk transfer taking over an hour, any reduction in size would be welcomed.

One way to do this would be to take a program disk and turn the disk into a single, smaller file. Of course, most programs (especially games) would have protection schemes inside to check to see if this sort of manipulaiton had gone on. Enter the "Crackers", who would "Crack" the protection schemes so they didn't work anymore.

This battle waged and has continued to wage between Software Companies and Software Pirates.

Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile
addocs.txt | 17769 | DOCS: Advanced Demuffin Version 1.1 by The Stack and The Inspector (February 8, 1983)
adexample.txt | 2682 | An Example of Using Advanced Demuffin to Crack a Game: Castle Wolfenstein
adtech.txt | 16773 | Technical Notes for Advanced Demuffin 1.1 by The Stack (1983)
advdem.app | 16645 | Technical notes for Advanced DeMuffin II, a cracking tool
alienmdcheat.txt | 1286 | Alien Mind Cheat - Brought to you by The Baron
alienmindpatch.txt | 2183 | A Crack and patch for Alien Mind, from Fred Gotfredson
asstcracks1.txt | 8806 | Assorted Cracks 1: Wings of Fury, VCR Companion, CrossWord Magic 4.0, Tetris, RoboCop, Ikari Warriors, etc. from Michael Kelsey
asstcracks2.txt | 11043 | Assorted Cracks 2: From Mike Hackett
bardst3wheel.txt | 565 | Bard's Tale III Code Wheel crack,from Zhu Hang
bardstale.txt | 8219 | Bard's Tale I and II GS character editor
battlechess.txt | 1084 | Deprotect for Battle Chess
bubbleghost.txt | 3680 | Bubble Ghost from Accolade
cheat.app | 4424 | All manner of cheats for various Apple II games
cheats | 7416 | LARGE Collection of Apple Cheats (Break into Monitor and Modify)
cheats.app | 2749 | The Penguin's Apple Cheats
cheats2.app | 4498 | Apple Pirate's Cheats
chess2000.txt | 1493 | ChessMaster 2100 GS
copyprog.app | 2991 | How to Copy Programs, by the Three Musketeers
copyprot.app | 15163 | Copy-Protecting your own disks, by Thomas T. Brylinski
crack1.txt | 1023 | Introduction to a Talk on Software Piracy
crackin.app | 9989 | An introduction to cracking by The Necromancer
crakowit.app | 3647 | Kracowicz' Kracking Corner IV
crisis.app | 1900 | How to crack Crisis Mountain, by Doctor Who
crisismtncrack.txt | 1922 | How to Crack Crisis Mountain
darkheart.txt | 6468 | Become Master of the Game! Breaking into The Dark Heart of Uukrul by Jeff Hurlburt
deathcheat | 517 | Cheat for "Death Sword"
dejavucracks.txt | 849 | Deju Vu cracks from Computist magazine
diskjock.app | 51504 | Examining protected Applesoft programs, by the Disk Jockey
dm2copy.txt | 682 | Deprotect Dungeon Master v2.0
fastbreak.txt | 1143 | Fastbreak GS by Accolade
gnarlygolfcheat.txt | 962 | Gnarly Golf GS cheat - Britanicca by Jim Maricondo
hdinstallmethod.txt | 10700 | Install HD Version 1.0 May 1991
immortaldepro.txt | 2487 | Deprotecting The Immortal
infolost.txt | 6615 | The Lost Treasures of Infocom Mini Manual
jacknicklausgolf.txt | 749 | Jack Nicklaus's Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
krack1.app | 2927 | High Technology's Cracking Tutorial, Part I
krack2.app | 1765 | High Technology's Cracking Tutorial, Part II
krack3.app | 2239 | High Technology's Cracking Tutorial, Part III
krack4.app | 1887 | High Technology's Cracking Tutorial, Part IV
krack5.app | 2560 | High Technology's Cracking Tutorial, Part V
krakowic.txt | 13198 | Kracowicz' Cracking Tips from ROM Radier
krckwczt.app | 137510 | The Kracowicz Basics of Cracking Series. A++
lastninjaonhd.txt | 1770 | Last Ninja/IIgs Deprotect and Hard Disk Mods
maccrack.app | 5981 | The Byte's introduction to Mac Cracking
machine.app | 13084 | Black Bag's Introduction to Machine Language for Cracking
macteam.app | 9569 | Macteam's thoughts on copy protection on the Macintosh
manycheats2.txt | 20106 | Many Cheats II, from Pirates Bay
miffins2.txt | 1421 | How to use Demuffin Plus
odysseydepro.txt | 1246 | Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure (Deprotection)
param2.app | 16201 | Parameters of Nibbles Away II for various software packages
piratesdeproandhd.txt | 9838 | Making Pirates/GS Hard Disk Bootable, by Rubywant
playroomdepro.txt | 1710 | A Backup for Playroom, by Broderbund
princepersiadepro.txt | 2243 | Deprotect for Prince of Persia on 3.5" Floppy
softkey | 21083 | Softkey Unprotections for a Variety of Commercial Programs
tangled.txt | 2888 | Deprotect for Tangled Tales
thexder.txt | 1201 | Old version Thexder joystick patch for IIgs
trace2.app | 11562 | Mr. Xerox' boot tracing, volume I (badly converted)
tstdrv28biltdepro.txt | 363 | Deprotect for the 8 bit version of Test Drive II
ultima.v.txt | 1097 | Copy II+ Parameters for Ultima V
wings.fury.cht | 606 | Cheat to Wings of Fure
wiz4codesinfo.txt | 3575 | Wizardry IV Codes
wiz5codes.txt | 37590 | Wizardry V Magic Word List
wpwiz1dsk.txt | 1372 | Adding Write-Protect to Wizardry I boot disk image
xenocide.txt | 925 | Xenocide "key-disk" removal patch
yscheat.txt | 5179 | Cheat for Ancient Land of Y's (GS) by Jim Maricondo
ysdepro.txt | 6834 | Crack for Ancient Land of Y's (GS) by Jim Maricondo

There are 66 files for a total of 570,156 bytes.