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I hacked Lotus 1-2-3 release 1a to remove the necessity of inserting the distribution floppy to start the program after installing it on a hard drive. The flopp
by jwtru 4y ago
I hacked Lotus 1-2-3 release 1a to remove the necessity of inserting the distribution floppy to start the program after installing it on a hard drive. The floppy had an "extra" dummy sector, and the hack involved NOP-ing out two instructions. I had to disassemble the released code to find it, which took a while. The hack only took seconds once I knew what was going on.
I posted the hack on the old Compuserve BBS and it had over a million downloads the last I looked.