Hi all
I make this off topic for a our remembrances and I don't know it is against rules or not,then tell if you like.
What is the very first program that you cracked?
Mine was something name "Help and manual",that is used for making help files.

sincerely yours

Tape and Disk copy protection built into the resident basic in the TI99A - very simple but required aquiring hardware that let me run the expensive TMS99000 processor debugger - learned the basics of assembly code that way - the protection was a reversal of the first 2 bytes in the file header, but since the TI didn't allow you to access hardware I/O operations at the byte level from the console - I had too write the code in assembler.

SiGiNT

PS: The manual stated in BOLD print that it couldn't be reversed, thats all I needed!

Good old WinZip haha

Jewel Thief (game), for Ole Windows 3.11

Fallout 2, NoCD. If that counts.

First crack following a tutorial: Winzip.
First crack on my own: Paint Shop Pro 4 (the day after Winzip).

An old (circa 1988) shareware File Manager, with disabled functions. All that was needed was a single byte change, Jz to Jmp.

I can't believe anyone here is as old as me...

I never cracked nothin'. The SWAT team is here for tea.

sweet little piano,i found it inside a tutorial for newbies...

if I told you the app I first cracked,
those bastards would still come after me,
and hunt this board down,
They still want their US $16.000.00 for the honors of using their pack,

so be careful what you post in here,

do not bring more pressure on the board and yourselves. . .

naides, you are right about this

Howdy,

naides is sort of correct. We dont want you to shout out the first prog you cracked if it was yesterday.

I cannot recall the first one, it was so long ago. around 7-8 years ??
On that note, you can reveal the name of the prog because I dont think anyone gives a shit about it now.

Actually I dont think most Software publishers give a shit about progs from 2003.

Regards, Woodmann

Woodmann,
do not underestimate the greed and perseverance of these corporations, and I am not talking about the humble shareware authors out there.
Despite the fact that most of their profit is based on developments over public domain funds and grants (think Micro$oft, developing on public monies) they genuinely think that the world owes them for the incremental effort they put in a Copy@Righted material.

Big Software Corps, despite already hefty profits ( I do not see Adobe filling for bankruptcy any time soon) feel cheated by every penny that does not fall into their pockets. Call that Entitlement!

For the record, my ancestors ( I HAVE PROOF)invented the wheel and discovered how to make fire, so every time you go somewhere or turn up the heating, you owe me!!!!

But on the other hand I've run into an app's actual author, helping people crack their baby, I doubt their company appreciates it though, my own personal opinion is that reversing an app is not a crime, at worst it's violating the EULA you are forced to agree to when you install the app., and it could be argued that regardless of where you obtained the software the minute you accept the EULA you are granted a license to use the app. The only thing that appears to be enforced at the moment is illegal distribution of copyrighted material.

JMHO

SiGiNT

CluelessNoob:

Unless you were born before 1946 YOU aren't that old. And, if you were THAT old, you would remember that the correct phrase is "as old as I am" rather than "as old as me."

Regards,

What if we reversed an app without accepting the EULA? I mean, let's extract the files from the package without explicitly clicking Yes.

Silly, isn't it?

Peres

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

This has potential.

Woodmann

Well, not quite what Peres suggested, but in the same spirit...
hxxp://www.woodmann.com/fravia/scarecro.htm

I always seem to manage diverting a topic with my senile rantings and musings, and or distorted view of "the way it is", the simple truth is that we reverse because someone told us it couldn't be done - or because we are curious to see if it could be done, or we are just plain ass cheap and don't want to shell out a good portion of our paycheck for a POS software that makes us pay for bug fixes.

SiGiNT

Next time I'm going to hex edit the hell out of the EULA and keep a copy for the judge to read on his unlicensed copy of Word.

It seema that I'm pretty damn good at killing a thread also!

SiGiNT

I don't know if this constitues a crack but when I was in high school we were learning on an IBM System 3 stand alone which took up entire the room. We had a *guest* use our system because theirs were down. It was Fermi II's payroll proggie, anyway it was cool for them to use our system. The programmer that wrote Fermi II's payroll program really didn't want to share experiences so what we did was, when they loaded their disks in (the big round ones) we were copying the program when it was running and we wrote a small program in RPG to capture they key strokes from the console he was using. hehe.... After they left we printed the program out and was able to duplicate what he did and the teacher used that experience for future tests the following year. I still have that print out today it it's fun to bring it out now and then.