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. wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
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