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23:26, 1 May 2008 = Hercule =
Hercule is the (French) conceptor and developer of the following CPC software (disc utilities mainly about floppy and its protections):
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=== Software ===
* Copylock
* Hercule
* '''Hercule II '''(famous disk copier that could copy any CPC protected game until 1988)
* Phoenix
* '''Ulysse'''
* Floppy
* Display
* Sector
* Copyfich
* ''LATIS protection''
All these software were published by Esat Software, in France.
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=== Activities ===
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
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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.