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In <2gkjqs$6...@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ap...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hank Leukart) writes:


>In a previous article, p...@iastate.edu () says:

>>First I thought DOOM was really tough. When I saw '... professional protection
>>mode ...' message I thought my time was over. I used to crack games a lot and
>>I thought I could crack any game, it was just a matter of time. But I don't
>>know about protected mode much so I assumed that was a beginning of a new age
>>- the age of games running in protected mode (maybe I'm wrong completely about
>>DOOM, I must admit I've never tried to find out about protected mode, it's
>>just beyond me). Last night I had nothing to do and I just decided to run DOOM
>>under my good old cracking utility I wrote a year ago. Just for fun. The key

>	I don't understand what you're talking about.  Neither the
>shareware nor the registered version ARE copy protected.  That's why
>they're so easy to crack!
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I'm very sorry guys, but you must have misunderstood me. I will explain you,
guys, what I meant by cracking. 
A couple years ago I've been doing it a lot 'cause there was no way to get a
registered version of any commercial game in Russia. Games were usually coming
by illegal copying only God knows where from, and they often contained some
sort of copy protection such as '...enter the word from page X, line Y, number
Z of your manual ...'. I hope you know what I mean. So the task for a
'game-cracker' was just to try to find a list of these passwords or to get rid
of this disturbing part of the game. Sometimes this was such a fun because
some games were so tricky that I had to spend more than a week trying to
understand the algorithm of the game. And at the end there was a prize waiting
for you - half an hour of playing the game which was running so predictable.
Sometimes cracking meant understanding of a structure of SaveGame-file. That
was even more fun 'cause some games didn't know how to handle wrong values of
SG-file - pure fun. Sometimes cracking meant cheating such as immortal life,
maximum ammo at any times, more money and so on, and so on ...
In order to do it - to 'crack' the game - you usually had to trace that game.
As far as I understand that's nearly impossible with my 'cracking' utilities
if that 'mean,tricky,evil,nasty...' game is running in 'protected mode' of
computer. But in the case of DOOM I could do it. I must say that I didn't even
try to crack DOOM 'cause there was no need for it (iddqd,idbehold,idspispopd
...) . So I decided that DOOM was not running in PM. I might be mistaken. ( I
suspended that I was mistaken 'cause I found that DS of DOOM was always 170,
that's odd ) If so I would be glad to hear from someone who understands better 
than I do. I appreciate that. 

Sincerely yours,guys, PVP




-- 
Oleg Pestovsky
p...@iastate.edu