Alkonost Software Products

AntiDuplicate

In today's software distribution, there is an increasing need to protect applications against illegal copying. AntiDuplicate is the fast and easy tool to create hardware keys for your software protection - by your ordinary computer. With AntiDuplicate, software developers prepare hardware keys (dongles) from standard USB flash drives! The result is the durable compact media for software distribution and the USB token for anti-piracy protection at the same time. How does it works? AntiDuplicate determines specific physical characteristics for each USB flash drive. Due to this, your application can examine if the USB drive is your original drive or the copy. AntiDuplicate SDK contains instruments and samples for Visual C++, C++ .NET, C# .NET, Visual Basic, VB.NET, Borland Delphi and C++ Builder developers. Each SDK package is unique for each application! By using the SDK samples, you need to modify your executable file sources to enable reading the identification information from the USB drive. AntiDuplicate Drive Maker has supremely simple user interface and allows you to create a key USB drive in seconds. Unlike traditional dongles, AntiDuplicate drives need not any drivers or special installation, and they can still be used as USB mass storage devices. Please visit http://www.alkonost.com/antiduplicate/ for details. The Demo version contains Demo Drive Maker and Demo Drive Tester, so you can create a special demo drive and check it out.

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Alkonost MaxFormat

Alkonost MaxFormat enables you to format floppy disks to maximum capacity with maximum efficiency. MaxFormat can format floppies to the current standard formats for 3.5 inch disks of 1.4MB and 720K, 5.25 inch disks of 1.2MB and 360K, plus additional non-standard formats: 1.72MB and 1.68MB DMF (3.5 inch disks) and 1.5MB (5.25 inch disks). The DMF (1.68MB) format is often used for distribution floppies under Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000. MaxFormat determines the type and number of floppy drives on your system and provides very fast formatting with the optimal sectors interleave to increase reading/writing speeds. You can create diskettes that are quicker than the diskettes formatted by Windows explorer! In addition to formatting floppies, MaxFormat can also duplicate diskettes with standard and non-standard formats, create the exact "track by track" diskette images, verify, make bootable under Windows 95/98/Me (even with DMF formats!), clear disks, format only when needed and copy files and whole directories to the diskette automatically after formatting. Non-standard formats provide you with extra storage space. The additional disk space is often enough to allow you to squeeze marginal files onto standard floppy disks and save you the trouble of fragmenting the file or compressing it. MaxFormat is ideal for those times when just a few extra kilobytes can make a difference! However, MaxFormat is also useful for normal formatting operations, as it offers a number of unique features to make working with your diskettes more convenient and effective.

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Alkonost ContraCopy

Alkonost ContraCopy is a professional software system, that can create diskettes for a copy protected software distribution. Alkonost ContraCopy enables you to prepare key diskettes using an ordinary 1.44 MB floppy drive. ContraCopy diskettes contain unique information, readable by your application only. No other hardware or software can make a correct copy of ContraCopy diskettes. Applications protected by ContraCopy run under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2k/XP, but ContraCopy Disk Creation System requires Windows 95/98/Me.

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