Re: On 'tros vs. pure cracks, my opinion

[bloomer_au <bloomer@iprimus.com.au>]

For me too it was my games centre as a kid. And gradually, programming centre, and games programming centre.

I didn't fully understood the crack screen stuff in the day, even though most of my games were copied. In fact it wasn't 'til I started visiting comp.sys in the 2000s, and was in my 20s, that I finally read any at-length stories about Apple II cracking history.

I guess what surprised me when I started examining games from asimov in detail was how altered or messed up some of them were compared to either versions I'd bought, or even my own cracked copies of them.

I'm sort of interested when I see different crack screens on games I know, but I also appreciate the value of having as pure a copy of the game as possible in archives.

- Wade