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.

[keropi]

each dongle is coded for the prog it was intended to... so unless you have the program it works for, it has no use...

[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. :-(

[rkauer]

There is not for any version of Scala.

Scala use serial dongles.

[adolescent]

Siamese came with a SentinelPro parallel port dongle for the PC side.  It's a greyish/white with a passthru.

[weirdami]

@adolescent

Like this?

[adolescent]

No.  Mine is about half that size.  :-P

[motrucker]

rkauer wrote:
There is not for any version of Scala.

Scala use serial dongles.

Don't bet on it. I have a version the uses the joystick port!

[rkauer]

I said serial? Sorry, is mouse/joystick port. Damm bad peecee influence!:evil:

My Scala MM400 version detects where the dongle is( where "any" means mouse OR joy). :-D    

[rednova]

Dear Friend:

I think I know what that dongle is. It is a dongle for the 'lightwave'animation program. I know because every dongle for lightwave is a sentinel/rainbow.I have a pc version of lightwave, and uses a dongle like that.
However...I don't know If you could actually sell it..because it might need a serial number to 'register'the version of lightwave to be used with the dongle.
I hope this helps...

rednova
-mobilis in mobili-

[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.

[B00tDisk]

rednova wrote:
Dear Friend:

I think I know what that dongle is. It is a dongle for the 'lightwave'animation program.

No, the dongle for Lightwave was the VideoToaster

[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: