Tempest: The Arcade Game that Crashes Itself for Anti-Piracy Reasons
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from cowpowered@lemm.ee to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 2023 14:42
https://lemm.ee/post/2579280
from cowpowered@lemm.ee to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 2023 14:42
https://lemm.ee/post/2579280
Tempest, the 1981 arcade game, has some clever anti-piracy checks in its code
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I hate watching videos! So I asked some AI to provide a summary.
Pretty interesting that they leveraged how the random number generation happened to determine if the hardware was authentic or not.
Haha that reminds me of some other game that I had pirated back in the day that wasn’t stable and I wondered if they had something like this to detect it DRM code was patched out. I liked the game a lot so I bought a copy.
Nope, it was just a poorly coded game as the legit version crashed as much as my pirated copy.
Great watch! I’m now going to go play Tempest on my 2021 lenovo laptop with my Atari VCS controller.
Great video and stumbled on a new channel to follow. Thanks! This level of technical detail and explanation is right up my alley!