Bypassing the Copy Protection of Old Macromedia Games

import NotePanel from ’@/NotePanel’ import Figure from ’@/Figure’ import TechnicalTerm from ’@/TechnicalTerm’ When I was a kid in the early 2000s, I spent a lot of time playing games that I borrowed from our local library. Many of them were German point-and-click adventure games, since those were the games that ran on my dad’s Windows 95 computer. Even back then, I was interested in tech and always tried to figure out how I could keep playing these games after giving them back to the library, but I, of course, never managed to do it. A few days ago, I stumbled across one of those failed attempts again: a set of CDs onto which I tried to burn a copy of “Findus bei den Mucklas.” I figured that maybe now was the time where I finally have the skills to do it! Obviously, the CD I burned back then was unusable, both because CD burners at the time often weren’t able to properly read or write copy-protected CDs and because I haven’t had a computer with a disc drive in the past 10 years.…