Atari 400/800 - The Chip Disk Backup/Developmet System by Spartan

[+Nezgar]

This was how I copied Alternate Reality, and actually sent a copy to Richard Adams. Told him I only used the Happy Archiver. Probably took him all of 6 minutes to figure out the rest. Oh, my were those days great!

That's a great story, and very informative! Did you ever hear back from him? I'm guessing not.

[rcamp48]

Does anyone remember any of the open codes used in this program ?

I want to use the editor part of the Archiver/Editor program.

Russ

 

[tep392]

The open code for mine is 1966. 

[Mclaneinc]

I think the most known codes for ones that 'did the rounds' are 1001 and 9999 but for the real deal it could be any 4 digit number depending on how many were produced and genuinely sold.

[rcamp48]

Thanks guys , I just added a second phone line to my account it will only cost me $18.00 Canadian a month for it and that guarantees that the BBS will be up 24/7, top it all of I have a multiplexer on order, so I might go multi line ... , i found out that i use my first line too much... as my cell phone died. Anyways I will try those codes but I am sure it will not work with my speedy.

[Mclaneinc]

Very very unlikely......

[Zarxx]

9 hours ago, rcamp48 said:

Does anyone remember any of the open codes used in this program ?

I want to use the editor part of the Archiver/Editor program.

Russ

 

My 810 Archiver is 1234

[+Stephen]

22 hours ago, Zarxx said:

My 810 Archiver is 1234

Why, that's the combination an idiot would use on his luggage ?

[_The Doctor__]

SpaceBalls

[Kyle22]

That's almost as stupid as using 'password' for your e-mail account.

Pizza anyone?

:)

 

[_The Doctor__]

Pizza the 'Hut!

and remember

The Hut is behind the GATE.

and the chair is against the wall!

Edited July 16, 2019 by _The Doctor__

[ijor]

The Archiver open code is not exactly a password for privacy purposes. The purpose was to defend against nasty software copy protections that might attempt to detect a custom drive and refuse to run intentionally.

 

Each original Chip/Archiver came with a different open code that was provided by the manufacturer. But non original EPROMS, not being a boxed product, usually came with such an obvious open code intentionally. There is nothing wrong with that unless somebody will write modern software that would attack such an Archiver open code.

Edited July 16, 2019 by ijor

[+Nezgar]

I learned in a prior thread where I dumped an 810 archiver ROM that the 'open code' is determined by the first two bytes of the ROM dump: 

 

An open code of "1234" would mean the first two bytes of the ROM dump would be $34 then $12 (reversed). So, it would have been trivial for someone cloning the Archiver to modify the two bytes to something easy to remember, which would also help hide the source of the original ROM.