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- CRACKING 101 - 1990 edition
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- │ INTRODUCTION │
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- by Buckaroo Banzai
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- A long time a go, in a galaxy far far away, a great adventure took ...
- What, oh sorry, wrong textfile.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- So anyway, sit back, watch, listen, learn and if that doesn't work, kick
- a small kid in the head...
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- -Buckaroo
- -Banzai
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