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- You again?
-
- Two and a half years after the wild coding Blitzkrieg that
- created Marathon, I’m back here removing the serial
- number protection for the trilogy release. Without source.
-
- I had this really dumb idea back then that I’d have the
- game wait until April 1st 1995 before enabling a second
- layer of serial number verification.
-
- Ha. After hacking out three dialogs from each of the 68k
- and PowerPC versions, with only MacsBug to light the way,
- I’m sort of glad I never got time to do that.
-
- Now Myth is the order of the day, and we’re aiming for a
- early fall release. The coming summer won’t turn into
- the unairconditioned blur of boiling late nights ordering
- pizza and drinking powdered Gatorate to stay hydrated
- that 1995 was, but I imagine we’ll keep busy somehow.
-
- I have this feeling it’s going to be snowing again when I
- have free time again.
-
- So. No serial numbers. It’s always bothered me that
- Marathon’s public lifetime would be over when the last
- registration card or serial number list got lost. Hopefully
- this is the version that I’ll be playing in fifty years
- under emulation on some fuckfast portable the thickness
- of a sheet of paper that walks my dog, dresses me every
- morning and grinds up my food because I don’t have any
- teeth left. And hopefully it won’t be running Windows.
-
- Later,
- Jason (March 17, 1997 4:39pm)
-