== Software developed ==
*[[Hercule II|Copylock ]] *[[Hercule II|Hercule]] *'''[[Hercule II|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'''
A second activity was to conceive physical and logical protection for all the software of the editor (Esat Software): the LATIS protection.
Hercule had programming activities from 15 to 18 years old in parallel with high school, and unfortunately had to stop in beginning of 1988 (to concentrate on his bachelor's degree) when protections like Hexagon came.