PARALAX
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 30 |
Hidden easter eggs
I'm currently searching for some games with hidden easter eggs that only appear occasionally or when something unusual is happening. Today a get an original version of "Beach Head II" which failed to pass the copy protection and I was flabbergasted when I read the followed text. :D
Once upon a time in a far away place some smart people got together and created
a device called a computer. The main reasons that they created computers were
for military purposes. But then computers were made smaller and cheaper, and
became more commonplace in business environments running accounting and database
software. Computers soon became so inexpensive that they were named "Home
computers". Now computers were used for playing games and teaching. Once
computers were in the home, many individuals saw that computers needed good
software. They decided to write programs (including games) to run on the
computers. They wrote up manuals for the programs and designed some neat
packaging and invested a lot of time and effort into the package. But then the
hard part came. They had to present their ideas to a company, and hopefully the
company would agree to sell their product. If there was no such company around
then they had to start one of their own up. This required capital, time and
business acquaintances that would represent the product to stores etc. After all
this is done the program must be good enough so that the public will recognize
its potential and buy it. The public usually recognized the potential of a good
product, but the number of people that buy the product is usually a lot lower
than the number of people that have a working copy of the program. you may ask,
how do they get a working copy of the program without buying it? Well they find
somebody (a friend?) who bought a copy of the program and they try to copy it.
The main ways for software companies to protect their software is to write out
information on the diskette in a non-standard format. Then when a copy program
looks on the disk for the information stored in the normal format it doesn't
find it all and misses some vital information that the program requires to
function. Most programs when run usually check for information on the diskette
and if it is not there they assume that the diskette is a copy and come up with
a message like: ** Copy Detected, Loading Aborted ** Others load up the program
but they don't let the program function properly. Well finally others programs
like this one just tell you the facts about piracy, and hope that your
conscience does the rest. Welcome to the wide world of piracy. Yours truly,
Kevin P. Pickell and Brian R. Niessen, Piratebusters Inc.
Nine out of ten pirates go blind trying to copy our software.
The other one gets committed!!!
Are there similar orignal games which such funny content or something else someone of the cracking groups here remembering? ;-) |
