I've seen Softwrap's site, they offer nice package
for handling the whole software process.

problem is that they are a bit pricy...

I've seen other servies by other companies,
but which of them offer copy-protection/ software-locking
code?

If it is about protection, take a look at Armadillo, http://www.siliconrealms.com (http://)

If it is about sales, after protect with Armadillo, you can choose any of software handling companies (swreg, regsoft, emetrix, regnow......)

I didn't try 'all package' services like esellerate...

Nedzad Orman
http://www.lottohat.com (http://)
http://www.p34lotto.com (http://)
http://www.yupgames.com (http://)

Not sure if this is appropriate here (I asked this recently in one of the SPA newsgroups too), but what about generating reg numbers? Anyone have preferred solutions for that? (I'm looking at both Palm and Windows games, so the sw needs to run on both...)

I've been seing this alot lately does SPA = ASP? I saw some big huge thread on the ASP newsgroups about "What's in a name" did the ASP actually change it's name?

alchemist:
i was wondering that myself...

The SPA and ASP are two very different groups. The SPA (Software Publishers Association) merged with another group a few years ago and became the SIIA. Last time I checked, the ASP had an affiliate membership in the SIIA (and possibly vice-versa), but the groups have totally different agendas, although there is some overlap, like fighting piracy. The SIIA seems more focused on serving big publishers like Microsoft, Adobe, etc.

Sorry, I should have said ASP, not SPA. Too many TLAs!

FWIW, I exchanged emails with Jeff Mitchell, the guy who wrote Shadow Plan for the Palm. He said he just wrote his own reg number generator and recognizer. All you really need to do is use the user's hotsync ID as the seed for a random number generator, maybe mixed with a hash function to obfuscate things a bit -- all you want to do is prevent basically honest people from guessing the algorithm. As he pointed out, crackers aren't going to buy your program anyway, so making it super-hard for them to generate false codes doesn't do much good.