UNPROTECTION METHOD FOR PRINT SHOP BY STEALTH PIRATES CORP. 1986 updated 4/86 to include hard disk unprotect comments. THE - IS THE DEBUG PROMPT, [r] IS A RETURN KEY BOOT UP WITH DOS IN DRIVE A. FIRST MAKE A BACKUP OF THE PRINTSHOP USING DISKCOPY. PUT DOS SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAMS DISK IN DRIVE B, AND BACKUP IN DRIVE A. A>REN PS.EXE PS.ZAP [r] A>B:DEBUG PS.ZAP [r] -S0 9000 CD 13 [r] ????:06B6 ????:34E1 (TAKE THE SECOND VALUE AND SUBTRACT 2 (HEX) FROM IT) -U????:34DF [r] (UNASSEMBLE AT THAT CODE, ???? IS THE VALUE FROM ABOVE) ????:34DF MOV AH,04 [r] (IF YOU DON'T SEE THIS AT THE BEGINNING QUIT NOW, ????:34E1 INT 13 [r] YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT VERSION) -A????:34DF [r] ????:34DF MOV AH,00 [r] ????:34E1 NOP [r] ????:34E2 NOP [r] -W [r] -Q [r] A>REN PS.ZAP PS.EXE [r] PRINT SHOP IS NOW TOTALLY UNPROTECTED for floppy disks, USE DOS'S DISKCOPY OR COPY COMMAND TO MAKE A BACKUP. For hard disk users, the 'location' of the PS.EXE program is recorded in the 1st two bytes of the MAINPIC.DAT file. When the 'printshop install' is performed to hard disk, the location of the PS.EXE is recorded in the MAINPIC.DAT... You can use Norton's utilities to look at the dirctory entry for the PS.EXE file, and write down the FAT which is the 26-27 bytes or last 2 bytes of the 4th entry past the file extention name. Then transcribe these 2 bytes into the 1st two bytes of the MAINPIC file, and write it back to disk... PRINTSHOP will now work from the hard disk. BEWARE - if you copy, restore, or move the PS.EXE file, you must re-do these procedures because the entry will change, and no longer match the entry in the MAINPIC.