GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
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GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
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Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#2A lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#3A lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
Thematically, many of them resemble the kind of WordArt we used to make as children in MS Word.
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#4If you’re familiar with these concepts, Deepwalker’s intro [0] is heavily inspired by the HOODLUM GTA5 demoscene :)
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#5I absolutely adored the little intro that Razor1911 added to their crack of GTA IV. Cool graphics, nice jingle, short, to the point. https://youtu.be/htbDeD-wv7s
Also not entirely related (kinda?), but I also regularly listen to the music that was inside the Digital Insanity keygen for Sony Vegas. https://youtu.be/kJln_F7Y2P4
Nostalgia!
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#6A lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
Win32 is definitely not a lost art. It's more accessible than ever with modern code generation tools like cswin32.
This inspiration to build things that look like this is what has been lost.
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#7A lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
Do you know where I can find source code for such intros?
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#8I absolutely adored the little intro that Razor1911 added to their crack of GTA IV. Cool graphics, nice jingle, short, to the point. https://youtu.be/htbDeD-wv7s Also not entirely related (kinda?), but I also regularly listen to the music that was inside the Digital Insanity keygen for Sony Vegas. https://youtu.be/kJln_F7Y2P4 Nostalgia!
> Nostalgia!
Maktone [1] did some very nice chiptunes for Razor [2] [3]. This playlist [4] has a lot of good Razor ones, I bet someone was looking for [5] =]
Also, a lot of keygens didn't have to be used back when a simple hexedit of one value could validate the software. I remember that being the case for mIRC. And Sublime Text. I mean, it could be as simple as changing an if statement to if not. I use the same idea for Proxmox. It is quick and dirty, but not the way the code was intended. If you wanna go that route, a keygen is the way (a serial does the job). With crack, you never know what it does, same goes for keygen (wrt malware). I still love Serials 2000. A program which had all the keys and serials in existence. Which was a big feat back in the end of '90s when search engines were shit. It even had regular updates/patches.
As for the website. Screenshots don't show videos.
[1] https://archive.org/details/all_20240526
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mwO26qel2U
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI46EyzaKI8
[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5CC3A42488052F20
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#9A lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
Do you know where I can find source code for such intros?
e.g. on this very site.
Re: GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
#10Website pretty much unusable on Mac/Safari: The viewport is so wide my browser shows about 1/4 of the horizontal content requiring constant horizontal scrolling. Firefox is better, but still requires horizontal scrolling to see the whole page.