That was a fun way to find the address and POKE it. Never knew of any of this, but it inspired me to search for more info, and it looks like there are also easi

That was a fun way to find the address and POKE it. Never knew of any of this, but it inspired me to search for more info, and it looks like there are also easier ways to unprotect files: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-were-microsoft-gw-basic-protected-files-encoded https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-... https://slions.net/threads/deciphering-gw-basic-basica-protected-programs.50/ https://slions.net/threads/deciphering-gw-basic-basica-prote... I remember seeing some BASIC games that could not be listed. Found that very frustrating as a kid trying to learn BASIC. Maybe now I can finally get to see something of how those games were made, assuming that at least some games were only protected in this way. Just opening the file in PC-BASIC seems to be the easiest solution: "PC-BASIC can read and write Protected files created by GW-BASIC. Unlike GW-BASIC, however, it does not disable accessing the unencrypted contents of the file. The encryption used by GW-BASIC has been broken many decades ago, so Protected mode offered little protection anyway; disallowing access is a small security hazard as it would allow someone to send you a program that you cannotinspect before running it."