Adventures in PC Emulation

This is Part 3 of a series on PC floppy copy protection methods.  Again, I need to thank NewRisingSun and OBattler for their invaluable contributions. You can read the previous installments here: Part 1, covering Formaster Copy-Lock Part 2, covering Softguard Superlok Before Electronic Arts (EA) was the publishing juggernaut that it is today, it was just one of dozens of software publishers putting out titles for various home computers, including the IBM PC. EA was founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins , who would go on to create the ultimately unsuccessful 3DO game console . In the mid-1980's, EA was perhaps most famous for their paint program, Deluxe Paint , which became a popular graphics tool for the whole computer gaming industry. Unlike the companies we have covered to date, EA is mostly widely known for their games, not their copy protection schemes. EA is famous enough that a long segue into their corporate history isn't really necessary - you can just read the  Wikipedia ent