| Text: | howdy hackers... in baudelaire's poem l'albatros, the master of the naval air ends up on the deck of a ship and is ridiculed by the seamen. that is what cracking on the c64 scene is. the lowlives ridicule the effort, ignorantly pecking on the achievement as a means to climb the social ladder. why do we do it? to do something together with good friends. to give something to the few that really understand and express liking and the many who silently appreciate our efforts. for the real friends like sailor, jazzcat, burglar, count zero, mr.z and hedning (once he lets go of the iffl obsession). the competent appreciators like raistlin, magervalp, ian coog, e$g, brataccas, dymo, ze smasher, shine, g-force, snabel, fix, mcm, wolf, theryk, isildur, zzarko, carrion, wertstahl, wil, dr.j and joe. and all the non sceners who post on our facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram and other media. your love keeps us going, even if some try their best to break our spirit. credits for this paramount efforts go to: crack, trainer, intro adaptation and basically no life for the better part of a year by bacchus - persistent game tests and tons of advice by jason - main trainer hunt, support, game test, bug hunting and a persistent good spirited friend by pitcher - collecting and adapting existing docs as well as producing original ones, play test and energy boosting encouragement by tng - intro workover, including ntsc fix, as well as help in a stuck situations by trasher. echos ring out to the eternal overlords of cracking in triad, sharks, triangle, onslaught, radwar, legend, chromance, dominators, illusion, style, byterapers, censor ikari+talent and genesis project. also to the newer kids on the block like atlantis, hokuto force, army of darkness. personal hello to galahad. never forgotten are the fallen heros - jerry and turtle. if you have nothing better to do, contact our boards optical illusion at optical.c64bbs.nu:64128 and rapidfire at rapidfire.hopto.org:64128 if you don't love this one, we will release the kraken. bacchus ... |
