Here's a fun article about trying to crack the copy protecting for a 35 year old Macintosh game:
https://barberd.medium.com/reverse-engi ... 6e7a563141
Interestingly, the game MacWars had "a very sophisticated anti-piracy code that encrypted the entire game, literally decrypting chunks of the application as needed right before execution."
Reverse Engineering MacWars
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