Straight cracks from Farb's ATX-Torrent
Using ATX files with real Atari computers is not easy or straightforward.
Since I never liked cracks with modified intros or missing loading graphics, some years ago I cracked and documented some ATXs of games I liked back in the day.
This year I continued to do this just for fun and meanwhile have reached 140+ disks.
My first goal is to simulate the protection and needed checksums instead of just patching the protection out.
My second goal is to change as few as possible on the disk imag
When I first discovered VAPI/ATX-files in 2009 I was happy to finally have found untinkered versions with intact loading-screens of some 20 titles I liked BITD. When I did cracking myself during the 80s I always tried to keep these loading screens.
Soon I found out that I could only use them in emulation and decided to crack the images in the least intrusive way. This was done with the debugger of Atari800WinPlus.
Fast forward to January 2016: Kevin Savetz talked in an episode of the ANT
