[Coco] Found out what that "Mystery Hardware" is

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

thanks for the info Art.
for those that want a screen shot:
http://amigalounge.com/images/006.jpg


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>Huh, I was going to guess it was Master Key, but was so uncertain, never
>having seen one, that I refrained! It wasn't exactly a cartridge copying
>utility, if I'm remembering correctly, but rather a method for interrupting
>a running program at any point as an aid to defeating its copy protection.
>Another of Computize's products was Spit N Image, a protected disk copying
>utility. I think the button on the top of the cartridge probably caused an
>NMI (non-maskable interrupt) in order to stop execution and jump to some
>code in the rompak that perhaps disassembled the target program at the
>interruption point and allowed the flow of execution to be traced.

>Art