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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 486 |
Where did your cracks come from in the past?
Refering to the latest posts here by Oswald and Jailbird:
Fairlight Intro (the Legendary one)
From which crackers/groups did the most cracks come from you got in the past?
I remember most of the games I copied from schoolmates had Ikari or Hotline intros in front. Also some Triad wares came along. The rest was very mixed. |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 346 |
1. Ikari & Talent
2. ESI
3. Fairlight |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 847 |
The original guy who had the disks I own had the majority of cracks based in the north of England, including Teesside Cracking Service, Cleveland Cracking Service and Scouse Cracking Group (Liverpool), and Megasnail/NATO who lived in Newcastle. Of course, many Ikari releases were included since they were the big heroes back then ;)... followed by all the foreign stuff, Germany being the biggest. |
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Flavioweb
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 463 |
1) Ikari + Talent
2) F4CG
3) Fairlight
4) ICS
5) Eagle Soft |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Fairlight, Ikari & Talent, Triad, F4CG, Alpha Flight and a then quite a lot from Chromance when I started swapping with Hungarians... |
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Doc Strange
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 101 |
1. F4CG
2. ICS
3. Ikari & Talent
4. The Force (Italy)
5. Triad |
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Achim
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2010
Posts: 28 |
1. Dynamic Duo
2. Triad
3. Fairlight
The rest: ESI, ECA, Hotline, ABC |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
depends on the time....
but when I started to get into the scene 88/89.. Lazer |
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639 |
Hotline
Dynamic Duo
Ikari
Triad
Beastie Boys
Also, lotsa Section 8 stuff |
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celticdesign
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 149 |
yep depends on year.
gcs, jedi, 1103, x-or, tbc, pc, crackman, tbc, section 8, fcg, abc, e.c.a, esi, dynamic duo, danish gold, reflex, triad, strike force, ace, elite, 2000 a.d., fusion, orion, shining 8, hotline, yeti, light circle, jewels, yak society, antiram, antirom, twg, sharks, agile, ikari, fairlight, tcs, fantasy cracking serivce and ohhhhh plenty of dominators, doughnut cracking service... :-) |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
My very early turbo-tapes; German Cracking Service, 1103, Bad Brothers, Section 8, Non Stop Cracker, Xerox, ABC, Cream Crackers, Mr Z, Computerbrains, WASP, Yak... |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4720 |
What I remember from the first turbotapes from the schoolyard were Mr.Z, Triad, Fairlight, hotline, ikari and Wanderer group (Giana sisters!). |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2218 |
also depends on where you lived & whom you knew
As everybody we got much stuff from world famous legendary groups in the late 80s such as Triad, Dynamic Duo, ESI (<- remarkably THE(!) only U.S. group everyone in Germany knew probably because every European group wanted to be the first to link their own "imported by" intro in front of their high quality cracks - and sometimes fucked up the crack altogether by doing so IIRC), HTL, Beastie Boys, FLT, Papillions, Yeti, Radwar, GCS, Shining 8, Light Circle, F4CG & whatnot.
But in Kiel/GER we got much stuff from local groups(I remember WEB) or guys (I remember Dr Mabuse before his AFL time) but also from Scandinavia from groups who were famous - at least on German East coast back then - but are not very often spoken of today, since they aren't active for decades such as Danish Gold, Agile/Sweden & many I don't remember myself. |
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SIDWAVE
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
ABC
Danish Crackers
Dynamic Duo
Flash Cracking Group
TRIAD
in the beginning.. |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
Legend! |
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A3
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 362 |
Mr.z, SCC, WCC, Triad, Hotline and Fairlight. When I got my first discdrive I got a few games from Genesis Project and Ikari & Talent. |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
Talking about local groups, in 1987 or something I got plenty of stuff from Yeti-Factories and also by Knights Against Protection, both from Munich. There must be more KAP stuff than the few that is in the database. Hope these things pop up one day. |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2218 |
@rough: although the mere size of this db is astonishing, it's even more astonishing that probably at least twice as many or more releases are still missing (just my personal guess). Reminds me that there a still a few disk coffins to transfer in my shelf... |
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Peiselulli
Registered: Oct 2006
Posts: 81 |
"JEDI" and "GCS" (1984), later mostly "Section 8" and "Dynamic Duo". |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
Quote:Reminds me that there a still a few disk coffins to transfer in my shelf...
This sounds familiar to me... (whistling...)
ps. I don't think coffin is the proper word unless your disks are already demagnitified... |
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Fungus
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 680 |
ESI
UCF
NEC/NEI+Legend
TSM
Hotline
Talent
Ikari+Talent
INC
ATC |
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Soren
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 547 |
I always only had one crack! |
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Ejner
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 43 |
Papillons
Danish Crackers
ABC
Triad
Fairlight
Ikari |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2218 |
OT
Quoting Rough... ps. I don't think coffin is the proper word unless your disks are already demagnitified...
well... though I don't think they are... who knows if you never take the time to tranfer'em ;)
Just kidding, indeed I find it kinda amusing that what we used to be told in school and mags, the whole "magnetic data storage won't be any good for more than 10 years" was proven sooo wrong. If you only take properly stored 30 years old magnetic media into account, maybe one of 50 disks and even less tapes are partially corrupted, while I can dump a great deal of optical storage media such as CDRs/DVDs etc which are only half as old.
BTT |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
Lucky us. |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4720 |
Quote: What I remember from the first turbotapes from the schoolyard were Mr.Z, Triad, Fairlight, hotline, ikari and Wanderer group (Giana sisters!).
Oh. And ESI, ABC, Jedi and Section 8. Also GCS and Computerbrains. |
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Wisdom
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 90 |
Ikari
Hotline
Triad
Fairlight
Strike Force
Fusion
Papillons |
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 323 |
. .. ... beastie boys
. .. ... crazy
. .. ... dynamic duo
. .. ... esi
. .. ... fairlight
. .. ... fusion
. .. ... hotline
. .. ... ikari
. .. ... illusion
. .. ... inc
. .. ... legend
. .. ... triad
. .. ... x-ray |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
take the groups in order of most mentions, thats pretty much for me. |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
Name droppings from my memory of the early days (1986-89'ish)...
Hotline
Papillons
Triad
Fairlight
Fusion
711
Transcom |
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Dano
Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 231 |
well here in the southeast of bavaria/germany pretty obscure stuff went around. i guess you can quite safely say we were pretty much at the end of the spreading line ^^
can remember stuff from esi, ikari, some fusion, some strike force, some f4cg, some 711, some wanderer. not that i could say there is a clear tendency of 1-2-3 groups.
a schoolpal from the next town had quite some other stuff/groups as his brother' best pal seemed to have connections to wanderer.
i guess we - in the end - got what got spread around big time. :) |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
Quoting danowe were pretty much at the end of the spreading line ^^
I wasn't. Strange, isn't it... |
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Axis
Account closed
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 43 |
Section 8,ABC,Crackman,FLash Cracking Group,Radwar,Light Circle,Trianon,Syndicate,Fantasy Cracking Service,AEK,Yeti,Dominators,Triad,Hotline,ESI,UCF,FAC,ECA,Fairlight,Dynamic Duo |
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szu
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Registered: Aug 2010
Posts: 17 |
First Into I probobly ever saw in a game was Newlook (GhostsnGoblins) and i loved that game as a kid.
Newlook,BB,Fusion,ATC,ESI,NFI,RAD,ABYSS,INC,FBR,MAYHEM
I had most of their cracks i see on CSDB. A lot were downloaded off local BBS's when i got my 1670 modem |
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ron.sos
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 13 |
Almost all of my first games was broken by Mr.Z |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Mr.Z
Mr.Eaglesoft
Mr.Nike
ACS |
