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INTRODUCTION |
At the end of 1990, Jon North - well-known for his hacking work in all three major Spectrum magazines - started to write a series of articles describing How To Hack in detail.
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These articles were to be published in Your Sinclair starting at this issue (54). |
Issue 55 discusses the basics of hacking and tells how to find infinite lives pokes.
- What you'll need
- How to hack
- Working forwards
- Working backwards
- Not working at all
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Issue 56 goes a bit further, giving a set of tools that are needed to hack special loaders. It also shows how headerless blocks are done.
- Revenge of the mutant cock-ups from hell
- Loading the first bit
- Disguising basic and getting past it
- Headerless files
- What a headerless loader looks like
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Issue 57 tells you what a decrypter is.
- Decrypters? What the...
- Why bother?
- How to recognise one?
- The R register
- Trailing decrypters
- A useful routine
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Issue 58 shows you how to hack BleepLoad.
- The first stage
- The basic bit
- The loader (the juicy bit)
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Issue 59 continues on BleepLoad.
- The BleepLoad crack
- The stack
- The Red LED hack
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Issue 60 is a Q&A session. |
Issue 61 is the beginning of the huge Christmas special showing how to hack Speedlock.
- Speedlock 1
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The small basic bit
- The big basic bit
- PO and PE
- What a load of crap!
- Changes, changes
- Setting the table
- The Army Moves hack
- Speedlock 2
- The basic bit
- Six of one...
- Where'd the loader go?
- Moving around
- The Athena hack
- Speedlock 3
- ...And half a dozen of the other
- Moving Speedlock 3
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Issue 62 is the continuation of the Christmas special
- Speedlock 4
- Never-ending story
- The CPIR command
- The Arky II hack
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Issue 63 handles Speedlock 5 through 7
- Getting started
- The decrypters
- Final decrypter on Speedlock 7
- The hack: Speedlock 5-7
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Issue 64 shows you how to hack SoftLock
- The basic bit
- The Chimera hack
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Issue 65 is another Q&A session
- Is your * key stuck?
- Where's the game?
- Will Steve Adams please stand up?
- Why not do a machine code course?
- How are load and save routines related?
- How are encrypters and decrypters related?
- How do you do Speedlock 4?
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Issue 66 rips MovieLoad apart
- The first basic bit
- Loading the second bit
- Making a start
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Issue 67 handles the Search Loader trick
- Getting started
- Decrypting the game
- The Rana Rama hack
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Issue 68 is unfortunately the last part...
- A few questions
- Is your * key stuck?
- Where's the game?
- How do you find time pokes?
- Notes on Alkatrazz
- Notes on the Search Loader
- Is that it then?
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You'll probably want to check the Z80 Instruction Information for the exact timing of instructions if you're interested in the loaders themselves. |