Not too bad, the copper colours are a bit garish even for the 1980’s 🙂 Weren’t the Anco games quite well protected for the time? Who are “United Crackers”?
Doubtful XR35 was, but from Kick Off 2 onwards is where they used their Cobra X-Rom protection system. Quite daunting at first when you encounter it, lots and lots of decryption loops, lots of checksums inside the code, several protection track reading routines, but once you’ve done one, the rest follow very quickly because they just didn’t change how it operated. Easily missed though as the protection track doesn’t appear in a warper or copier, so Anco got more sneaky with later games by not having them fail so soon, so a load of groups released some of the Anco… Read more »
Yeah, thats really cool old school stuff. Nice one! 🙂
Similar case like with Hotline. Great C64 group with unfortunatelly not much of the success on Amiga… Still, top3 in C64 biz!
This looks like they did it in a hurry just to get it out of the door.
Dealer Quality Software – funny! nice job anyway.
Wow never seen this.. Did not even know they made more than one intro back in day 😀
This music gets me overexcited.
Not too bad, the copper colours are a bit garish even for the 1980’s 🙂 Weren’t the Anco games quite well protected for the time? Who are “United Crackers”?
Doubtful XR35 was, but from Kick Off 2 onwards is where they used their Cobra X-Rom protection system. Quite daunting at first when you encounter it, lots and lots of decryption loops, lots of checksums inside the code, several protection track reading routines, but once you’ve done one, the rest follow very quickly because they just didn’t change how it operated. Easily missed though as the protection track doesn’t appear in a warper or copier, so Anco got more sneaky with later games by not having them fail so soon, so a load of groups released some of the Anco… Read more »
Thanks for the details, that’s pretty cool (that the protection track didn’t immediately flag itself during copy/warping was clever)!
The music loop says… hit the botton…. fast …now…hit it!!!!