001: Reversing ‘Grateful Dead: D2S2’
Summary
The article is a tutorial that explains reverse engineering a classic Macintosh 68k application (Grateful Dead: D2S2) using MacsBug and related tools to understand its serial validation logic. It covers environment setup, identifying architecture, and disassembling the validation routine, ultimately illustrating how input validation could be analyzed and reproduced. It also touches on ethical and legal considerations around reverse engineering software.