To play the games, you need a modern browser such as Firefox or Chrome, with JavaScript enabled. Each of these offerings include elaborate descriptions from the hackers on how they overcame the disk’s copy protection. The site then uses its JavaScript-based emulator to run these games and programs directly in the browser. They also tended to focus entirely on popular arcade games rather than obscure software.Ī’s “4am collection” (4am being a term for anonymous persons) attempts to preserve a wide swath of Apple II software in its original form.
The difficulty of cracking these schemes meant that hackers would sometimes omit parts of the code, or embed “crack screens” or alternate color schemes as a way of putting a personal stamp their work.
