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Oldschool Cracker Vol. 1 [2024] |
AKA :
Cracking Tutorial Vol. 1 / OSC1
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Pokefinder.org
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Submitted by QED on 5 January 2025
| Awesome read. Thanks for doing your part in preserving the knowledge for current and future generations. Plus, it made my day when I saw that you have included quotes from my article in disC=overy #3. |
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Submitted by chriz74 on 3 January 2025
| Thanks! Looking forward to read about cracking multilevel games from tape to disk. |
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Submitted by New Design on 1 January 2025
Nice little PDF book with a lot of useful information.
Thank you for your great work, 104 pages - wow.
Please go on with Vol.2. I can hardly wait for it. |
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Submitted by Hate Bush on 1 January 2025
| cool, because i miss the magic process description concerning C64 cracks, especially of old stuff. i would not even realize that if it wasn't for 4am cracks on Apple II - check the accompanying .txt files if you don't know them. excellent stuff. |
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Submitted by LDX#40 on 1 January 2025
| This sounds great! Looking forward to reading this :) Thanks. |
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Submitted by Six on 1 January 2025
| Now *this* is something special. More of this, please! |
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Submitted by apprentix on 1 January 2025
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Submitted by bexxx on 31 December 2024
| Fantastic doc! Thanks for sharing all of that. Looks like a cool project for me to follow through! |
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Submitted by REBEL 1 on 31 December 2024
Welcome to the first edition of the Old School Cracker (OSC). The OSC is for all those C64 enthusiasts who, back in the heady days of the C64, never mastered the craft of cracking but always wondered how it really worked. It's also for anyone curious about how things were done on the real machine – without modern tools like VICE. OSC represents authenticity: We only want to crack with tools that were available at the time the game was released. Anything else would be pointless.
OSC Volume 1 dives into cracking the tape version of Pitfall II released in 1984 by Activision. Why tape you might ask? “In Europe, most software was released on tape before on disk (if ever). So, tapes were not only cheaper and easier to crack than disks, but also earlier. This made tapes the most attractive for most crackers” (SLC of Kvasigen). So, there we have it!
We’re starting with a relatively simple crack. The target audience is the beginner in the cracking business. In future OSC issues, we'll also tackle more modern copy-protection schemes. But: one step at a time. Let’s begin with something fairly straightforward. We’ll learn a lot that will be useful for bigger tasks down the road.
OSC was born out of the idea to have a complete step-by-step description of a C64 cracking process, something understandable and relatable from which we can all learn. OSC documents a piece of how the old skill of cracking works and aims to preserve it for future C64 generations.
The logical structure of OSC will always be similar: cracking, training and hacking. We start with an analysis of the code, tracing the whole thing through to the start of the game. However, tracing down the whole thing does not mean that we have to understand the entire code of the game. We absolutely want to stay focused and only take care of the stuff that is relevant to us. In this way, we will identify the built-in protections and crack them. To make sure that our crack works 100%, we will build a trainer that makes it easier for us to play through the game (and to improve the game!). And finally, we'll hack around in the game, just for fun.
A note on my own behalf: OSC is a public domain work - you can download it as a free PDF. Share it if you find it useful. I definitely recommend that you print it out and have it bound as an A5 hardcover. It looks better and you can work with it much more easily. If you find any errors or would like to suggest improvements, please drop me a message. |
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