which dongle is it using????

[k2k2000]

maybe in this list
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/fp_dong1.htm
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/fp_dong2.htm

[Sabor]

Well if its dos based its definetly old. If you have the dongle post here the label of the dongle or color. If not, check to see if the application is encrypted. If it is encrypted (packed) it will likely be ssi_activator. If it is not packed could still be that. The only dos application i have seen use a dongle was with ssi_activator so far.

I take it that the dongle is HASP/Hardlock or at least it looks like one otherwise I think that you are fighting a loosing battle with the available dongle cloning tools. However, my money is on these not working anyway because the application is probably using built in code to access the dongle. If that turns out to be the case, it will be necessary to disassemble the application code and find the checks. It could also just have a wrapper around it for the dongle protection that checks to see the dongle is present and then allows the application to run. Pretty sure that DESkey provided that type of protection for DOS applications.

If you are unsure of the dongle type, the first thing that I would do is carefully cut or crack the case open and look for identification marks. Or just for fun, try and check if someone already has a cracked version floating around, it is dos after all.

Also, the links that k2k2000 posted don't seem to be working anymore (I had those same ones bookmarked too) here are the ones that still work.

http://fravia.frame4.com/fp_dong1.htm
http://fravia.frame4.com/fp_dong2.htm
http://fravia.frame4.com/frogpr3.htm

xtx

HARDLOCK also comes with a DOS API and probably HASP as well.

Since this list is now nearly complete, you know as much as before, unless you can tell us how the dongle looks like.