A model broke a dongle's copy protection and his emulator boots the old music software

Broke copy protection with GPT 5.6 and has a forked Hatari that boots and runs Notator and Creator by emulating the dongle.

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He breaks copy protection with the model
Has a forked emulator that boots and runs the old notation and sequencing software by emulating the dongle

Why it’s worth knowing

The dongle was the product's bodyguard; now it is a line of code.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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