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Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« on: April 07, 2012, 02:07:09 AM »
Hey guys

So after years and years and years (over 15) of searching I finally found it!

MANDALA for amiga! I bought an a500 from a guy and it was with the software. NO DONGLE though and it doesnt work without  it.

I remember a friend from the New Orleans Amiga Club that created hacked Scala dongles is there a way to do this for Mandala?

Or is there a way to Crack it so it goes past the dongle protection? (the company is long out of business over 20 years so its abandonware)

Please any help is appreciated. I've spent almost half my life looking for this software for the LIVE! board by Asquared..
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 02:20:50 AM »
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MANDALA for amiga! I bought an a500 from a guy and it was with the software. NO DONGLE though and it doesnt work without  it.

I remember a friend from the New Orleans Amiga Club that created hacked Scala dongles is there a way to do this for Mandala?

Or is there a way to Crack it so it goes past the dongle protection? (the company is long out of business over 20 years so its abandonware)
http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/demo.php?id=23372

This is the thing? If yes, you can find it from the TOSEC archive. Google is your friend.
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 02:25:49 AM »
HI piru

Thanks for the link, hope thats the right application. The one i'm looking for is Mandala for the LIVE! 2000 board that was used with a camera for motion capturing and hot spot triggers. Well I for one dont love piracy (except the ARGGHHH kind)

on a side note, for technical knowledge how do they do it? Hex editors?
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 02:29:29 AM »
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HI piru

Thanks for the link, hope thats the right application. The one i'm looking for is Mandala for the LIVE! 2000 board that was used with a camera for motion capturing and hot spot triggers. Well I for one dont love piracy (except the ARGGHHH kind)
This should be it then. When googling I ran into this:
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while googling i found another hint for a Live!2000 software, called "Mandala Studio v1.94" - looking at the binary, i could find the string "Live2000! Rev %d present" - means its working with your card too

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on a side note, for technical knowledge how do they do it? Hex editors?
I would imagine everyone used reverse engineering tool called ReSource.

Kind of like IDA for amiga.
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 02:36:01 AM »
Interesting. Thanks for the links..

its funny in the good Amiga times in the 90s in the usa there wasnt a lot of piracy. I think most of the piracy was in europe. Most of the amiga clubs I used to be a part of really frowned on copying.
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 03:15:22 AM »
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Interesting. Thanks for the links..

its funny in the good Amiga times in the 90s in the usa there wasnt a lot of piracy. I think most of the piracy was in europe. Most of the amiga clubs I used to be a part of really frowned on copying.


Wow; piracy was pretty much the order of the day for everyone using the Amiga that I knew of back in the day (and yes I'm in the US).
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 03:18:26 AM »
well I do admit when I was in high school there was  few times with a group of friends we would pool money and buy a guy and make a couple of copies..but we were dead broke and at least we bought a lot of games.
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2012, 03:38:52 AM »
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Wow; piracy was pretty much the order of the day for everyone using the Amiga that I knew of back in the day (and yes I'm in the US).


We just called them "off site backups".
 

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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2012, 05:37:21 AM »
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well I do admit when I was in high school there was  few times with a group of friends we would pool money and buy a guy and make a couple of copies..but we were dead broke and at least we bought a lot of games.


Oh I bought lots too, rest assured.
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2012, 06:07:18 AM »
Interesting, indeed.  I have a Live! 2000 board, but could not be arsed to find the software for it.
 

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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2012, 07:13:19 AM »
Are you kidding? I have uploaded them a while back for people to tinker. It was in some other Amiga.org thread

http://www.mediafire.com/?emcb7qd4d7edl

Hope it helps... again :)
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2012, 07:13:24 AM »
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http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/demo.php?id=23372

This is the thing? If yes, you can find it from the TOSEC archive. Google is your friend.

Or use the EAB ftp server for applications and games (TOSEC archive included): http://ftp://ftp@magix.ws@ftp.magix.ws/
 

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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2012, 07:16:16 AM »
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(5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.* A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace....

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/

Assuming you're in the US....
 

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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2012, 07:16:35 AM »
Gulliver

That link is broken it just leads to the media fire home sign up page.

@ thorham

Thanks
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Re: Help!Found Holy Grail of Amiga Software NEEDS DONGLE!
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2012, 07:17:34 AM »
Trev

Awesome! leave it to an Open Source guy ;)

@ all its not piracy if you own the originals.. i'll take a pic of the Mandala Manual and disks!
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