Re: Hacker Handle

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, September 2, 2006 10:11:52 PM UTC-5, William Heckel wrote:
> Ok by now the statute of limitations on busting the copy protection on the 
> original games for the Apple // series..
> 
> LOL  !!!!
> 
> What was your hacker handle back in the day..
> 
> I was Spectrum Lord.

I was a wee lad when most of you crackers were going ape on this platform.  I was fortunate to know Lord Rama, as he was a high school friend of my brother and a supplier of a gigantic stack of floppies that filled my childhood with thousands of hours of joy.

Later on he gave me his Wildcard 2 (which I've since sold on eBay since I don't have a need to crack software) and, more importantly, his copy of Merlin.  I was able to learn assembler and it was pretty darn rad.

On local Houston BBS's I usually used "BLuRry" which is basically just my initials BLR and some extra letters inserted.  This made more sense back then when I wore glasses. :-)  During the days of AppleLink, I went by Someone2 and BLuRry.  I can't imagine I did much of anything worth value as a kid, though I did manage to make a really cool tilegame engine and ultima game interface in assembler.

I have the distinct impression I've probably chatted with one or many of you on AppleLink / AOL (before it was lame) when I was a teen.  I remember sitting in on BurgerBill (nach: Becky) announcing a very ambitious Avatar project and that was a fun day.

In the 90's I kept the handle BLuRry for writing mod/s3m/xm/it music and there's a couple dozen of those floating around, some much better than others.  It all started with Electric Duet though. ;-)

-B