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Ultra Unboot D0x (hey, that rhymes with B0x!@#!1)
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by Sorcerer's Apprentice
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I bet you're all wondering just what Ultra Unboot does, eh? I'll get to that
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in a minute.
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I was inspired to write this when The Necromancer told me of his conversation
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with Roman (aka The Crasher) of USAlliance. He was ragging on The Voice Over
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and Tom E. Hawk because he said their loaders were too easy to take off. He
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said he wrote his own loader, Ultraboot, which was almost impossible to
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remove. In fact, it was so hard to remove, they claimed even Mr. Slick
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couldn't do it!
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Since I doubted Roman was that smart, I leeched a copy of Knight Orc and took
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a look at the loader. Just as I suspected, it was a lame attempt at
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modifying Intercept, the standard for Apple //e loaders written by The Voice
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Over.
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Then I had an idea. If the loader was soo hard to remove, I should write a
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program to remove it for everybody! After looking into it some more, I was
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disappointed to find that the loader was quite easy to remove. But what the
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hell, I decided to write a program to remove it anyway.
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The result is Ultra Unboot. Simply BRUN it from DOS (ProDOS is not
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supported) and after displaying a few screens of elite information, it will
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prompt you to insert a disk with Ultraboot installed on it. Simply insert a
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ware that those losers released using Ultraboot into Slot 6, Drive 1 and hit
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a key. The loader will quickly be removed, and your system will be rebooted.
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What could be simpler? I bet you all thought you'd have to pay $19.95 plus
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shipping and handling for this, eh? What a bargain!
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Maybe one day The Crasher will surprise us all by becoming a real pirate.
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Until that time, we'll all just have to pretend he and his lame group doesn't
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exist by using Ultra Unboot to save us from having to look at their unsightly
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title pages.
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
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January 19, 1988
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