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CRACKING 101 - 1990 edition
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³ INTRODUCTION ³
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by Buckaroo Banzai
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A long time a go, in a galaxy far far away, a great
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adventure took ... What, oh sorry, wrong textfile.
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Hello my children. Let me introduce myself, I am the
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great cracking guru BUCKAROO BANZAI (the original) and I'm
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back after a couple of years of hiding (from the Feds? from
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the IRS? No, from this girl MaryLou. Let me tell you, she
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could ... oh well let's get back to the textfile).
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Let me tell you a little history about cracking on the
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IBMpc. It all started about 11 years ago with an apple IIe.
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See, I owned one and always wanted to learn how to crack (I
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was already a good pirate). Unfortunately, I just never
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could get the hang of it.
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Well anyway, then I got my PC, and right away started to
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learn to program. Soon, I had pick up oh 4 languages one of
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which was assemble language. So I started down the long road
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to becoming a crackist.
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But the road was hard since unlike the apple, there were
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NO textfiles on cracking the PC. Several unprotects, but
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nothing that really told you what to do. But thanks to some
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of the better known crackists of the day (Thanks SPI for the
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help) I got through.
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It was at that point I decided to give something back.
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And thus, after a long (and I mean long) night of sex, drugs
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and rock and roll I started on my first cracking textfile.
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(Ok, so there really wasn't any drugs)
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Since then, I have written about 10 different textfiles,
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4 utilities and cracked several dozen programs. So, why the
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long pause, well I never really stopped cracking. I just
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basicly stuck to myself. I never released any of my cracks
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cause I was never first but several of my cracking programs
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(most known is SECTOR-C) reached the pirate world.
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So, why am I back. 3 reasons. First is because now DOC
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CHECKS have taken over the scene and nobody has really
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written about them (plus I'm tired of seeing my old textfiles
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butchered in "CRACKING" mags). Second is because I have some
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free time, and third, because it was there.
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It feels kinda funny. I have written this intro file
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several times, and the whole series has been rewritten. What
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started off as 4 simple textfiles has grown. I have givin up
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trying to write a book. What I'm doing is as a new game
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reaches me, I will crack it, and then tell how it was done,
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highlight the odd quirks about the crack.
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I have also compiled a preaty good reference on INT 13h.
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I have included it with this series. And in the near future,
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I hope to release several utilities that I use to help me
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crack.
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As of this writing, I have 2 actual lessons done, and 2
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ready to be written. For the first 2 lessons I touch on both
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types on copy protection (On disk copy protection with
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I.B.M.'s DRAWING ASSISTANT and dos checks with EOA's ESCAPE
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FROM HELL). I still have to compose 2 more files, 1 more on
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each type (usings STAR CONTROL and CHAMBER OF THE SCI-MUNTANT
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PREISTEST). From there, who the hells knows.
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So anyway, sit back, watch, listen, learn and if that
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doesn't work, kick a small kid in the head...
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-Buckaroo Banzai
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-the cracking guru
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