19 Jun
2010
19 Jun
'10
3:58 p.m.
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
The Steinberg dongle seems to be ok, since it's
from the 80ies or
beginning 90ies and was used for several years without getting broken.
But exactly because it's that old I fear it could break one day.
I 'guess' that I also could get cracked versions of Cubase for the
Atari, but while the dongle version is 100% stable and the latest
version ever made for the Atari, there aren't cracks for the latest
version and the cracks I know were '99%' stable.
Since most of those dongles back then were themselves protected by grinding
the part numbers off the chip, that damage to the expoxy-B covering is
probably largely responsible for their short life, both from the instant
heating caused by the grinding, but also from moisture migrating into the
assembly through the damaged epoxy-B coating.
For Windows there are dongle hacks available by
torrent, they do work
'99,9999999999999%' ok and can be used with cracks, 'I heard'. Dunno if
they would work with bought software too, this might be interesting for
people who bought the original and wish to use it on wine.
I 'guess' I could get all I need for Windows as a crack, but I don't
like cracks and I can't pay for legal versions and I don't wish to have
USB dongles. Btw. I don't like the 'philosophy' of Microsoft.
While bus dongles using oldish gate chips, are less damageable, I don't
trust USB micro controllers.
When I was young I tuned my motorbikes and cracked
software and used
software other people cracked. Juvenile law isn't valid for me today,
just one reason not to use cracks.
And when I was a juvenile, transistors had not been invented yet. ;-)
While open sources might not be important to everybody,
people also
might not care about malign US major corporation, at least keeping our
own slates clean is a reason to get Linux more capable for music too.
Naw, I'm not the least bit allergic to tweaking the M$ nose. :) Their
little 'easter eggs' that cause the loss of an important file that can only
be replaced by purchasing a new copy of the os, in this case NT-4.0, have
bit me enough times that I have no respect for M$ for about 20 years now.
My limited experience with XP showed that it did work, but never felt like a
true os to me, just patches to DOS. Their most stable was 95, it ran for 46
days at a time, till the tick counter rolled over. Reboot on day 45 and
everything was cool. I would have to assume that DOS-6.22 also suffered
from that, we had one of those that crashed about every month & a half but
never had the clues to point a finger at that. Just one of those things...
2 cents,
Mine too. But I'd imagine the list people are about to police us, this is
sort of off topic. ;(
Ralf
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