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description of Hercule (as a person, not as a utility)
= 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
<br>
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.
Hercule is the (French) conceptor and developer of the following CPC software (disc utilities mainly about floppy and its protections):
<br>
=== 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.
<br>
=== 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
<br>
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.
