A disk Menu Maker downloaded from MOOSE BBS

[Madi]

I was maintaining the few survived old diskettes I still have when I saw a neat basic Menu maker program I had downloaded from MOOSE BBS, Madison, WI back in 1985. I do not recall if I have seen it anywhere.

On the same disk, I found another menu maker named Quick Loader by Micropulse.

Also, there are 2 copy unprotecting files. One of them is intended to crack Infocom software and the other is to unprotect Brøderbund Software.

The disk image is attached.

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Moose.zip

[Xebec]

These were made / put together in 1985? That's really nice.. I wish I had come across a menu disk maker like this back in the day!

[Madi]

These were made / put together in 1985? That's really nice.. I wish I had come across a menu disk maker like this back in the day!

What I am sure about is that those files were individually downloaded from Moose BBS because the disk has a MOOSE BBS label. I remember that I used the basic program "menu maker" to archive my .exe games/car.

[RodLightning]

Nice one to have survived. Thanks for sharing! I'm curious what 'Infocom Fixer' did to the disks? I kept my original disks in the package with game related booklets and "feelies". Sector copied backups played fine. In fact, copy protection was often by way of printed material included in the game box. You had to have it as reference to enter in at certain points in a game. That didn't stop full solutions and walk-throughs from circulating on BBS. Brings back memories.

[Lord Thag]

Nice. This is the kind of thing that tends to get lost to time. Official software tends to get tracked and archived but all of the cool (and often more capable) 'hacker' garage software tends to vanish.

[Rybags]

Infocom? I didn't think they had protection on any of their games.

[Madi]

Infocom? I didn't think they had protection on any of their games.

Actually, they have some type of copy protection techniques that are based on specific words in the game manuals.

See this link .

 

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