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Definitely not me but man I remember headbanging to my friends keygen software from Razor1911
I have an mp3 of the patcher/keygen by Digital Insanity for Sony Vegas in my music collection. Such a banger, even after all those years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCMzIE9p07Y
I didn't think many people cracked Vegas back in the day, I needed it for digital media presentations :)
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Same! And APC rings a bell - were they MP3 and ISO? I was an MP3 courier in a group on a lot of global top sites. I remember being in an irc chan for one of them (I think it was the hungarian one) and kali of the top group RNS stated his birthday or something else personal and said "oh crap I shouldn't have said that" lol. He was indicted by the DOJ in 2009! He was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit copyright i…
MP3. They were mostly rippers but I was a courier who would get their stuff on topsites and then the indies or courier only groups would distro it. I have trouble remembering all the structure and rules (written and unwritten) after all these years, but an ASCii NFO file still makes my heart leap like nothing else!
Most were current year only US releases, 192kbps and VBR?. Some accepted 320kbps and older releases if they had never been ripped. Some topsites only accepted releases from certain groups. My favorite site had a folder with an archive of all the billboard top 100 albums. I think that was the top swedish site (bbs?) or maybe chiplips which I believe was hungarian. There were a couple good ones in US (MIT/RIT) but the others were in sweden, hungary, netherlands. I think one in France.
It was interesting to see how those groups and topsites were chased and shut down, but the P2P platforms that came out made it impossible to shut down anyway.
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
Writing some tools for doing releases got me into Python.
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I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends.…
Off topic: > Your 30+ year old body Hey, wake up call, not just to parent commenter but anyone. If you feel this way in your 30's chances are good you should probably spend more time focusing on your physical health. Start getting more exercise and working on your diet. You don't need to go crazy, just make small improvements and try to stick with them as much as you can. Start simple: Go for a short walk in the morn…
Even my 18 year old self would have killed to feel like that.
But at 30 I couldn't walk a flight of stairs without pain, went to my doctor and was handed an exercise sheet for retirees and told off, and that was what finally got me to address my health, so there's still time to fix it for anyone who feels like that and still time to reach heights of strength and energy you didn't know we're possible.
I lapsed for multiple years in my early 40s, but even with that, after being back in the gym for just a few months I'm still for the most part, apart from a bit slower recovery, feeling better today at 48 than I did at 30, and I'm far stronger and with better endurance (though I still feel weak because I know how much I have lifted, and while Im easily at 5x+ the strength I had at 30, I am so far only back up to 60% of my peak)
Ah, Razor. Sadly it seems that DRM companies like Irdeto, makers of Denuvo, are now simply hiring talented crackers such that there are very few people now able to crack games beyond simple DRM. Empress is the only one remaining.
The only groups are Empress and FitGirl? Sounds very progressive!
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I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
I'd say you'll feel miserable and will wonder what is it you are missing from the old days. We look at it with rose tinted glasses, but for all practical purposes, everything was significantly worse back then. The kind of hardware and software we have available today was the stuff of the wildest dreams and imagination. I remember we could spend entire weeks in 4 player Doom 2 deathmatch during summer with my friends.…
I use to play it a lot a year or two back, any map pack I could get installed, and then played each over again.
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The only groups are Empress and FitGirl? Sounds very progressive!
fitgirl repacks cracked games to make them smaller. empress actually cracks software. they don't work with each other either