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[Windoze]

After a lot of work I'm proud to present a full XSKey Emulator for Logic 5 & 6.
Please read the included Readme for Installation & Removal Instructions.

This is for OS 9 only. I might make an OS X Version some time later but this needs some Research first...

Since my XSKey had to die for the greater good I'm searching for a spare.
I don't care which Licenses it has or even only Demos. Let me know if you have one you don't need.

[Knezzen]

Wow! Great job, Windoze! Finally

[hoovers@dawn]

well if this works then hats of to you man! 

[hoovers@dawn]

just tried it it booted straight up no key 6.4.3

looks like the emagic team have had there legacy crushed! what next "pace Ilock" ?

[hoovers@dawn]

Since my XSKey had to die for the greater good I'm searching for a spare.
I don't care which Licenses it has or even only Demos. Let me know if you have one you don't need.

I have a "emagic" logic "audio" not "pro" 6 dongle spare will that do? if you need more to sacrifice let me know i have few...

As a geniune "legit" Emagic logic platinum/pro user since version 4 (yes i got a bank loan for it in my early 20's) I really appreciate what you've done here & im spinning out that it fully works, I never thought i'd see the day & alot easier than the traditional emulators (programs that need to be turned on & targeted) just drop it into the logic folder & your off & racing!!!  what a great day for os9lives welldone windoze this will benefit the os9 community greatly...

now i better upload the OS9 Logic Pro 6.5.0 emagic leak....

show your appreciation people this is the crack of crack acheivements in history!!!!!

cheers

[Knezzen]

now i better upload the OS9 Logic Pro 6.5.0 emagic leak....

Yes!!!! Please do!

[AtariMan]

After a lot of work I'm proud to present a full XSKey Emulator for Logic 5 & 6.
Please read the included Readme for Installation & Removal Instructions.

This is for OS 9 only. I might make an OS X Version some time later but this needs some Research first...

Since my XSKey had to die for the greater good I'm searching for a spare.
I don't care which Licenses it has or even only Demos. Let me know if you have one you don't need.

Thank you very much for your work! We are looking forward to XSKey for Mac OS X. It would be cool to flash the extracted firmware into a blue key with demo versions.

[lp33]

Yes!!! Can confirm it works with Logic 5 downloaded from the Garden on OS 9.2. So much love and gratitude for this.

[chietronix]

I really appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[JohniMacG4]

Wow! 

It is incredibly impressive that you have managed to do this.  Thank you for your time and expertise and your sacrifices.  This is huge.

I lost my original Blue Emagic XS Key years ago, but I still have my original Logic Pro 7 retail box and install discs.  After over a year of looking everyday,  I finally managed to buy a white Apple Logic Pro 7 XS Key on the used market.  I now have Logic Pro 7 installed and running on my sweet little iMac G4 under both 10.4.3 and Sorbet Leopard. 

I am of course building out an OS 9 partition as well.  I have an iMac G3 running OS 9.0.4 that I have installed Pro Tools Free v.5 onto.  And my OS 9.2.2 partition of my iMacG4 now has a working version of Pro Tools LE 5.2.  I still had my original install disc and authorization number, but I had to buy another old original MBox.  It's fantastic.  I am looking forward to adding Logic Pro 6 to this OS 9 build on the iMac G4.

I have heard that the white Apple XS keys, if authorized/activated in their day for Logic Pro 7, will work for authorizing all previous versions of Logic Pro, and all the way back to Notator.  I have not tested this.  I count my self lucky that I got a working Logic Pro 7 XS Key.  An OS X virtual XS Key for Logic 7 would be out-of-this-world.

Well done Windoze!

-JohniMacG4

[refinery]

Finally had time to try this out on my machine today. This is extremely impressive, I.. honestly can't believe we've gotten this treat 20 years on. Amazing, amazing work.

[ivanshpak]

Checked! It works on 6.4.3!
This is great, thank you!
This is really important, because it frees up the sometimes very necessary USB port!

[smilesdavis]

its sad usb dongles cant be cascaded like the adb ones

[IIO]

it´s called hub.
3 euro for x3 - 150 euro for x24.

[smilesdavis]

it´s called hub.
3 euro for x3 - 150 euro for x24.

the beauty the...

Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) is a proprietary bit-serial peripheral bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. It was introduced on the Apple IIGS in 1986 as a way to support low-cost devices like keyboards and mice, enabling them to be connected together in a daisy chain without the need for hubs or other devices. Apple Desktop Bus was quickly introduced on later Macintosh models, on later models of NeXT computers, and saw some other third-party use as well. Like the similar PS/2 connector used in many PC-compatibles at the time, Apple Desktop Bus was rapidly replaced by USB as that system became popular in the late 1990s; the last external Apple Desktop Bus port on an Apple product was in on the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White), though it remained as an internal-only bus on PowerPC-based PowerBooks and iBooks with the built-in keyboard and touchpad.

[sarnau]

Congratulations! I expected that somebody would eventually decap the CPU and dump the firmware, but at the time there was no other USB microcontroller with the required specs available. It lasted over 25 years, so I consider that "good enough". I looked at your implementation: clearly different from my own reference implementation of an emulator for the Mac, but the code seems 100% correct based on my quick check with Ghidra.

If you need some XSKeys, I probably still have a couple hundred in a box somewhere. Send me an email…

You might want to return 0x00 for the first 16 bytes of the EEPROM (the first 2 are part of the serial number) and return 0xFF for all bytes between 0x10 and 0x2F (this enables all potential products permanently). The rest should return 0x00 (demo timers, etc)

As a ROM serial number you might want to return $0FFFFF, which has not been used and is a "VIP XSKey" – to make it extra fancy :-)

BTW: xskey.apple.com was shut down in December 2012 (which allowed users to repair and update XSKeys), after we discontinued the use of the XSKey in 2007 with Logic Pro 8.


Cheers,
Markus Fritze, Inventor of the XSKey

[Knezzen]

Wonderful to have you here Markus and thanks for the XSKey insight!

[IIO]

aha, der nächste apple spion! wir warten schon die ganze zeit drauf, dass tim eine keynote zu unserem mac mini OS macht.

yeah, ghidra speaks PPCs since a while.

myself i used almost exclusively custom apps for audio, but it feels really great to have things "complete".

thanks for your kind words and the offer.

[ssp3]

I expected that somebody would eventually...

Lecko mio! See what happens when you post you works in public space 

Welcome, Markus!

It also shows how good the work of Windoze and those who collaborated with him is.


P.S. Markus, if your idea with XSKeys was to donate them, then what about giving them to people only after they have written something valuable for the MacOS9Lives! front page? They pay shipping etc., of course.
If you had something else in mind, then just ignore what I wrote.

[Windoze]

Die Welt ist halt doch recht klein, das man hier gefunden wird

The reverse engineering of the XSKey was a very nice project for me and I'm still proud of the resulting emulator.