Difference between revisions of "Hercule"

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Hercule is the (French) conceptor and developer of the following CPC software (disc utilities about floppy and its protections):

Copylock
Hercule
Hercule II (famous disk copier that could copy any CPC protected game until 1988)
Phoenix (could store 230 Kb of files on a floppy instead of standard 178 Kb; commands like LOAD were intercepted to automatically handle this special format)
Ulysse
Floppy
Display
Sector
Copyfich
LATIS protection

All these software were published by Esat Software, in France.

The main job of Hercule was to ensure that Copylock / Hercule / Hercule II was always capable to copy/backup any protected floppy:

receive the new CPC games that could not be copied
crack the game and understand its physical protection on the floppy
conceive a way to copy it
improve the code of Hercule to reproduce this copy
test then integrate the new code into a new master copy of Hercule to be sent to the editor

A second activity was to conceive physical and logical protection for all the software of the editor (Esat Software): the LATIS protection.

Hercule stopped CPC programming and activities in 1988.

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 * Hercule
 * '''Hercule II&nbsp;'''(famous disk copier that could copy any CPC protected game until 1988)
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+* Phoenix (could store 230 Kb of files on a floppy instead of standard 178 Kb;&nbsp; commands like LOAD were intercepted to automatically handle this special format)
 * '''Ulysse'''
 * Floppy