This is a piece of computer history. They should release it as open source. Get some free publicity for whatever their actual revenue-generating products are.
SoftICE
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#82Ancient? Ughh. I remember using SoftICE to cheat in games back in the 1990’s. Wonderful software, I wish I would’ve been knowledgeable to do something more useful than making myself invincible in Mortal Kombat or giving my characters super powers in UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka: X-Com outside North America). This was a great learning tool to understand how programs actually allocate and use memory. Long before I had taken…
SoftICE oozed of hax0rz. I did the same thing, training old games like Alley Cat, Digdug, Eagle's Nest, Captain Comic etc. All about getting infinite life, energy, ammo. Then it was cracking copy protection. A couple of NOP's and a JMP to the correct place (for the easy ones). #cracking4newbies on EFnet. +ORC (Old Red Cracker), +Fravia and everyone in +HCU (High Cracking University). Wow.. I remember I used to have d…
Fun times. Which are the fun areas of tech these days?
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#83I used it for only one task but it was worth the price anyway--I needed support for both VGA and monochrome on the same machine. As the years went by there were fewer and fewer monochrome cards and the cards became worse and worse at playing nice together. It eventually reached the point where we couldn't find any that would behave--I ended up stepping through the initialization code for the monochrome (which was in ROM, no breakpoints otherwise) and noting exactly what it told the card and reproducing that in my code. (By then 100% of my screen writing was in my code, the lack of that capability didn't matter.)
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
SoftICE oozed of hax0rz. I did the same thing, training old games like Alley Cat, Digdug, Eagle's Nest, Captain Comic etc. All about getting infinite life, energy, ammo. Then it was cracking copy protection. A couple of NOP's and a JMP to the correct place (for the easy ones). #cracking4newbies on EFnet. +ORC (Old Red Cracker), +Fravia and everyone in +HCU (High Cracking University). Wow.. I remember I used to have d…
I really enjoyed Fravia's page back in the day and one of my all time favorite sites by +Malattia (had to search a bit to find it): http://3564020356.org/ Which reminds me...I never figured out that hash-maze but back in the day I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Maybe current-day me will fare better.
I’ve been trying to find this site for years! All of this time, I’ve been convinced it was +mammon I was looking for, but it’s all coming back to me now.
I don’t remember a hash maze, all I remember is that I got stuck for weeks on some puzzle related to wiring schematics, and eventually gave up.
Re: SoftICE
#85Ancient? Ughh. I remember using SoftICE to cheat in games back in the 1990’s. Wonderful software, I wish I would’ve been knowledgeable to do something more useful than making myself invincible in Mortal Kombat or giving my characters super powers in UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka: X-Com outside North America). This was a great learning tool to understand how programs actually allocate and use memory. Long before I had taken…
I really learned to code writing all kinds of hacks for half-life and its numerous mods (mostly counterstrike) and helping teach others to (but not releasing binaries as ruining other peoples' fun wasn't the real goal). I'm grateful for those years and how they formed my views about programming. My neglected personal homepage is still just a little crappy homage to it: http://wrmsr.com/ :)