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Comment on Ask HN: Help me hack my 30 year old shareware gameparent

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mmm, I don't remember doing that. But was uploading to BBS's at the time so may have done so. Also may have been trying to dissuade cracking :)

You won't be patching it without decompressing it. Unless you run it under something that patches it in memory for every time it is executed. But that's a ridiculous amount of work.

See if F-Prot will decompress and remove the container, and then go from there. Make sure it's an early version of f-prot. It does look like an early PKLite, so you just might pull it off.

Do you have any prepped GRIDLOK.REG files lying around?

Unfortunately not :(

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