Dongle protections

Dongle protections for Atari ST

A dongle is a hardware device that plugs into the Atari either through the cartridge port, serial port, ASCI port or any other port that can be read from. Once you start up the software, it checks the port that the dongle is supposed to be in and if it's not there, the program will not fully function/run. It's literally another means of software protection because you may be able to copy the disk but to duplicate a dongle would be much harder. (thanks to PaulB on the forum for this lovely description!)

The following is a list of known games & applications which featured a hardware device to prevent copies being distributed of the title.

Games

• 10th Frame (US Gold) [1]
• B.A.T. (Ubi Soft) [2]
• B.A.T. 2 (Ubi Soft) [3]
• Cricket Captain (D & H Games) [4]
• Dames Grand-Maitre (Cobra Soft) [5]
• DynaBlaster (Ubi Soft) [6]
• Jeanne d'arc (US Gold) [7]
• Leaderboard (the original US Gold release - future budget re-releases were 'hacked') [8]
• Robocop 3 (Ocean) [9]
• Striker Manager (D & H Games) [10]

Applications

(someone help me out here - guess the majority would be MIDI apps such as Cubase?)

• Cubase (need version numbers etc.)
• Music Master (Computer's Dream)

Articles

• Dossier OBLIGEMENT : les protections sur Amiga et Atari ST [11]

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