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- CRACKING 101 - 1990 edition
-
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- │ INTRODUCTION │
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-
- by Buckaroo Banzai
-
-
- A long time a go, in a galaxy far far away, a great
- adventure took ... What, oh sorry, wrong textfile.
-
-
- Hello my children. Let me introduce myself, I am the
- great cracking guru BUCKAROO BANZAI (the original) and I'm
- back after a couple of years of hiding (from the Feds? from
- the IRS? No, from this girl MaryLou. Let me tell you, she
- could ... oh well let's get back to the textfile).
-
- Let me tell you a little history about cracking on the
- IBMpc. It all started about 11 years ago with an apple IIe.
- See, I owned one and always wanted to learn how to crack (I
- was already a good pirate). Unfortunately, I just never
- could get the hang of it.
-
- Well anyway, then I got my PC, and right away started to
- learn to program. Soon, I had pick up oh 4 languages one of
- which was assemble language. So I started down the long road
- to becoming a crackist.
-
- But the road was hard since unlike the apple, there were
- NO textfiles on cracking the PC. Several unprotects, but
- nothing that really told you what to do. But thanks to some
- of the better known crackists of the day (Thanks SPI for the
- help) I got through.
-
- It was at that point I decided to give something back.
- And thus, after a long (and I mean long) night of sex, drugs
- and rock and roll I started on my first cracking textfile.
- (Ok, so there really wasn't any drugs)
-
- Since then, I have written about 10 different textfiles,
- 4 utilities and cracked several dozen programs. So, why the
- long pause, well I never really stopped cracking. I just
- basicly stuck to myself. I never released any of my cracks
- cause I was never first but several of my cracking programs
- (most known is SECTOR-C) reached the pirate world.
-
- So, why am I back. 3 reasons. First is because now DOC
- CHECKS have taken over the scene and nobody has really
- written about them (plus I'm tired of seeing my old textfiles
- butchered in "CRACKING" mags). Second is because I have some
- free time, and third, because it was there.
-
- It feels kinda funny. I have written this intro file
- several times, and the whole series has been rewritten. What
- started off as 4 simple textfiles has grown. I have givin up
- trying to write a book. What I'm doing is as a new game
- reaches me, I will crack it, and then tell how it was done,
- highlight the odd quirks about the crack.
-
- I have also compiled a preaty good reference on INT 13h.
- I have included it with this series. And in the near future,
- I hope to release several utilities that I use to help me
- crack.
-
- As of this writing, I have 2 actual lessons done, and 2
- ready to be written. For the first 2 lessons I touch on both
- types on copy protection (On disk copy protection with
- I.B.M.'s DRAWING ASSISTANT and dos checks with EOA's ESCAPE
- FROM HELL). I still have to compose 2 more files, 1 more on
- each type (usings STAR CONTROL and CHAMBER OF THE SCI-MUNTANT
- PREISTEST). From there, who the hells knows.
-
- So anyway, sit back, watch, listen, learn and if that
- doesn't work, kick a small kid in the head...
-
- -Buckaroo Banzai
- -the cracking guru
-