For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 28, 1999

PACE Anti-Piracy Releases Version 2.0 of InterLok for Macintosh
Upgrade Extends Turnkey Protection to Plug-Ins, Enhances Compatibility and Cross-Platform Integration

San Jose, California - October 28, 1999 -- PACE Anti-Piracy Inc., a leader in the development of anti-piracy systems, today released version 2.0 of InterLok¨ and InterLok¨ Pro for Macintosh. The upgrade adds a number of powerful new features to InterLok and expands the range of executable types that can be protected using its turnkey encryption and wrapping capability. The new release also advances PACEâs multi-platform integration strategy, improves performance of wrapped applications, implements a new wrapping architecture for enhanced security, and adds support for Appleâs new Power Macintosh G4 and ãROM-in-RAMä G3 systems running Mac OS 9. InterLok is PACEâs fifth generation tool set for protecting, distributing and selling software, and is widely used by developers of pro-audio, font, and graphics software products.

New Features
In addition to ensuring full compatibility with Appleâs new computers, InterLok for Macintosh 2.0 includes a number of new features, including:

• Support for automatic encryption and wrapping of all Power Macintosh native executables, including plug-ins, shared libraries, applications, etc. Developers can now automatically integrate the InterLok encryption wrapper into plug-ins and other non-application software without making explicit API calls to PACEâs interface library.
• Support for InterLok for Windows options document format, providing the ability to move InterLok options documents back and forth between Windows and Macintosh platforms This expands previous versionsâ support for importing of Macintosh options into the Windows version.
• Dramatic performance enhancement for the load times of protected software on machines with multiple hard drives.
• Support for wrapping executables that have multiple embedded shared libraries. For applications, only the application PEF (PowerPC Executable Format) is wrapped. For other executable types, only the first PEF in the file is wrapped.
• Enhanced security from the new wrapping architecture.
• Increased flexibility regarding actions that can be invoked when a demo is expired. For example, with this version a developer can now create a demo that expires silently rather than prompting the demo user for authorization.

Macintosh software developers who protect their products with PACEâs InterLok system should upgrade to version 2.0 of InterLok. The new version of the product is necessary to provide compatibility with Apple's new Power Macintosh G4 machines, or any ãROM-in-RAMä machine, including the iMac, iBook, ãbronze keyboardä PowerBook G3, and ãblue and whiteä Power Macintosh G3, running Mac OS 9. For existing applications that incorporate earlier versions of InterLok, compatibility with these systems can be achieved using version 2.0 of the PACE USB Floppy Enabler. This easily-installed extension can be downloaded from PACEâs web site, and can be freely redistributed by licensees under agreement with PACE. Availability and Pricing InterLok for Macintosh 2.0 is available for download immediately from PACEâs web site and is free of charge to current PACE licensees. More information is available about PACE Anti-Piracy and PACEâs suite of InterLok products at the companyâs web site: http://www.paceap.com. PACE Sales may be contacted by phone at (408) 297-7444 x1.

About PACE Anti-Piracy

PACE Anti-Piracy Inc. is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. Since 1985, PACE has provided software publishers and distributors with high quality solutions for secure software distribution. PACEâs InterLok¨ suite of products is used by hundreds of world-class software developers and publishers around the world, including Adobe Systems, Agfa, Avid, Corel, Digidesign, Dolby Laboratories, Electronic Arts, Inprise, InstallShield, Liquid Audio, Steinberg, and The Walt Disney Company.


© 1999 PACE Anti-Piracy. InterLok is a registered trademark of PACE Anti-Piracy. All other brand names mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders, and are hereby acknowledged.

NOTE TO EDITORS: PACE Anti-Piracy would be pleased to provide you or your technical/lab manager with evaluation copies of any of our InterLok¨ products. Please call or e-mail us with your request.

Media Contact:
Laurie Mack
Media Relations
Phone: 831-476-8818
Fax: 831-464-3168
e-mail: laurie@paceap.com