Re: [stella] 7800

Subject: Re: [stella] 7800
From: jvmatthe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:28:11 -0500 (EST)
How similar is this "backdoor" to the trick used to make Lynx carts without
Atari encryption?  It has been rumored that there was possibly a way
to make Battlesphere (for the Atari Jaguar) without getting Atari encryption.
(Anyone who knows details of this, please share them.  I'm sure many people
are curious about how Battlesphere would have been released if Hasbro hadn't
found the key.) That would mean that there might be "backdoors" for these 
systems that Atari tried to protect that would essentially make them open 
platforms.

Side note:
The idea was that they would protect their consoles from a flood of
bad software as had happened with the Atari 2600 back in the 80s.  There 
was never a flood of software for any of these Atari other systems but there 
sure was some bad software for them.  (Club Drive, Ruffin?)  What a shame.

matt

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