ETKAS - You want it? I got it

[S. Jaworski]

I have an ETKAS CD, Euro version, summer 1999

I have an ETKAS CD, USA version, #47705

I had no problems making a cd copy of the USA version. But, the euro version
gave me fits . . . something about data underruns. I made a disc image of
the cd on my hard drive, and then made a cd of the disk image. That seemed
to work ok.

My contact tells me that the Euro version works without any "dongle". The
USA version will need a "dongle" to make it work.
I installed both versions. The USA version is looking for a dongle . . you
get an error message.
The Euro version seems to work, but hangs up on one of the menus . . . I
have to fool around with it some more.

Any listers out there with reverse engineering backgrounds? I might be able
to get my hands on a "dongle" and take some measurements with an ohm meter.
As I recall, dongles usually have a diode or two inside . . and the dongle
is usually attached to the printer parallel port.

Syl

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