Jun 12, 2018 i have a situation in which i have a dongle that i whant to clone or eliminate the protection, the program is from my grandfather, because he used that program on windows 98, the protection is a Sentinel dongle (parallel port is LPT) everything is bought legally in 99, that company is from italy but they stopped producting it, i would like to.
I take it that the dongle is HASP/Hardlock or at least it looks like one otherwise I think that you are fighting a loosing battle with the available dongle cloning tools. However, my money is on these not working anyway because the application is probably using built in code to access the dongle. If that turns out to be the case, it will be necessary to disassemble the application code and find the checks. It could also just have a wrapper around it for the dongle protection that checks to see the dongle is present and then allows the application to run. Pretty sure that DESkey provided that type of protection for DOS applications. If you are unsure of the dongle type, the first thing that I would do is carefully cut or crack the case open and look for identification marks. Or just for fun, try and check if someone already has a cracked version floating around, it is dos after all. Also, the links that k2k2000 posted don't seem to be working anymore (I had those same ones bookmarked too) here are the ones that still work. http://fravia.frame4.com/fp_dong1.htm http://fravia.frame4.com/fp_dong2.htm http://fravia.frame4.com/frogpr3.htm xtx
Mars
Honorary Master
This is the scenario. I have this piece of software that transfers a file from my pc to my cnc router. The router plugs in via USB and the software creates the specific file and puts it onto the router's flash storage. The software is pretty basic and I am sure that it would work perfectly on win 7 except for one thing: The Dongle. The drivers for the dongle do not work under win 7. I have contacted the suppliers of the machine and they have no intention of releasing win 7 drivers for the dongle . First totally dumb thing: The software is specifically designed to work with the cnc router, so I cannot fathom why it needs to be protected by a dongle. So I run the software in a virtual box/machine right? The dongle works perfectly in that environment. But enter the second totally dumb thing. The software will only create the file if the cnc is plugged into the machine. If the cnc is plugged into the machine, and there is more than one usb device plugged in, it asks me what device I want the file copied to, but without the cnc plugged in, it gives an error. And because the cnc has a specific device name when I plug it in (USBCNC), I cannot seem to pass the device through to a virtual machine! So: I need to do one of two things. I need to make it so that the software will run without the dongle, or I need to make it so that the software will output the file when the cnc is not attached to the pc. Is this even possible?