I was twelve or thirteen, had a ][e and with a copy of Beneath Apple DOS and the reference manual, and cracked a lot of software for the challenge. I wrote my o

I was twelve or thirteen, had a ][e and with a copy of Beneath Apple DOS and the reference manual, and cracked a lot of software for the challenge. I wrote my own nibble copier but me and my friends pooled our money and bought Copy ][+ and Locksmith, which worked better. My favorite, and easiest, trick was to use the 64k extended memory of the 80-column card to overlay the regular memory, copy the ROM and a few low pages into it, then jump to the boot routine. Then when the disk stopped spinning, I'd hit the reset button which left me with a copy of the system at that point. Sometimes I just had to dump the program from the memory, other times I would use it to disassemble how it loaded. I had a Applied Engineering RAMWorks card (Dad heavily used AppleWorks) and I recall there being tricks around that but can't remember (rigged a couple of buttons for page swapping, I think).