Re: SuperPET for Dummies

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2008-12-23 17:45:16

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> Has anyone ever figured out what the "dongle" does?  Is it just some
> form of electronic serial number?  Does it "do" anything useful (i.e.
> some sort of character or binary translation) which might make it more
> difficult to remove from existing code that depends on it?  Has anyone
> even gone through the existing code to see what accesses that memory
> space?

It seems to handle 8 to 16 bit translation, but it also seems to do more 
than that.

I once asked Commodore support what it was. They said it was a decoder, 
but would not explain further, saying it was "proprietary information".

"Proprietary information" usually means that the person you are talking to 
does not know the answer.



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