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Author: Andy McFadden Written: November 1991 Summary: Cracks old SSI Apple II games Description: This is version 1.1 of the RDOS to ProDOS converter. It automatically converts files from RDOS disks (in DOS 3.2, DOS 3.3, and cracked DOS 3.3 formats) to ProDOS. This also includes the ProDOS-based RDOS interpreter, which handles all the '&' commands just like the original RDOS operating system did, so once you convert the files you can run them. Source code is included (ProDOS 8 Merlin assembler). You may have to do some minimal filename changes to the programs, but for the most part it's automatic. Instructions for converting certain games (including removal of copy protection) are included. There were a series of articles by Evin Mulron in COMPUTIST on cracking the games; he has a web site at http://www.concentric.net/~evin/a2war/ with emulator disk images and other goodies. If you have trouble reading the documents, which are in AppleWorks word processor format, grab a copy of awp2txt (near the top of this page). The advantage this has over some of the other methods used to make SSI games available for Apple II emulators is that this results in programs that run on a standard ProDOS filesystem. You don't need emulated "save game" disks, because the files are written like any other ProDOS file. To break the SSG games (Germany 1985, Reach for the Stars, etc), you need a separate program (RKCrack). See below.