Thus came the file "Serial Surfer Data", which is created by all the emulators I maintain. This happens a lot more often (with over two dozen emulators) than the program itself would be updated.
This would mean that, should a code appear, it would be automatically blacklisted next time I updated an emulator. I decided to allow individual emulators to add registration codes to the Emulator Enhancer black list. With Emulator Enhancer, I began to look for a better way. Furthermore, I had to update Blitter Library every time a new pirated code appeared in order to add it to the blacklist. This was more than a little frustrating I had put a huge amount of work into Blitter Library, yet people were stealing it. At one stage I was averaging five users a week e-mailing me to complain about a bug causing "snow" to appear on the display.
#GBA EMULATOR ENHANCER SERIAL NUMBER#
I know this because I embedded some code in the program to cause static to appear on the image when a known serial number was entered. On the other hand, since Emulator Enhancer was designed from the ground up to fix all the problems inherent with Blitter Library, I had the opportunity to do things properly.īlitter Library was widely pirated. It was impossible for me to integrate the code properly. Blitter Library was a bit of a hack really it was bolted on to an back end that was never designed for such things. Emulator Enhancer is the successor to Blitter Library, which was for many years a library which could be used to add video effects (and later USB gamepad support) to the two dozen or so emulators I maintain. Okay, I think I should explain what is happening here. I've moved the file to my desktop, and I've started opening and closing all of my shareware titles individually, hoping to see one of them recreate the file. That is, perhaps this is a "rouge" preferences file that makes usage of the utility difficult. Now, one of my theories is that maybe some shareware author is using this file surreptitiously, to try to mess with Serial Surfer in some way. My computer won't even return from a sleep state without accepting a password.
Keep in mind, there is one account on this laptop, and no one else uses it. There's a program on the Mac (or least there used to be, not sure nowadays) called "Serial Surfer." It is what it sounds like.Īnyhow, I was looking through my library folder in my home directory, and I found a preferences file called "Serial Surfer Preferences." This freaked me out.
#GBA EMULATOR ENHANCER INSTALL#
I just did a clean install of Panther, I own all of my shareware, etc. Here's the deal: the software on my system is totally legit.
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