SentinelPro dongle mystery

[weirdami]

Did any software on Amiga ever need a SentinelPro security dongle thing from Rainbow Technologies? Anyone know if they're useful to people other than the original owner? I have one, it's goes in the parallel port.

[weirdami]

I wonder if there's a way to find out what program it was for. Otherwise, it's useless to everyone and I can't sell it. :-(

[weirdami]

@adolescent

Like this?

[weirdami]

I emailed the company that made it and they said that they don't know what software it would go with because they sell blank dongles to developers that program them themselves.

I'm guessing this thing is useless to anyone, except maybe whoever owned it originally. And, as such, I think I am more than happy to pry it open and see what's inside!
 :banana:

Incidentally, a google search for "sentinelpro dongle amiga" has this thread as the first hit. Everything else goes to stuff about hacking and making fakey software dongle emulators and such.

[weirdami]

the dongle for Lightwave was the VideoToaster

That's what I thought, that and you could buy LightRave to trick Lightwave into thinking you had a VT. Maybe non-Amiga Lightwave's need a special dongle or something.

[weirdami]

Here you go. A picture of the inside of it. It didn't take much to get it open and I was even able to close it back. I wonder what other destructive stuff I could do to it. :idea: