A $10 Quake CD contained every single id Software game and was cracked in less than two months [original news source in comment]

a day ago by alessandro to c/pcgaming

The more you know.

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Ashiette 44 points a day ago

The writer of this site learning about keygens and trying to explain it ❤️‍🔥

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MurrayL 3 points a day ago

To be fair, it’s a little more complex than a regular CD key. Not a lot, but a little.

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ComradePenguin 2 points a day ago

I forgot all about keygens, those were the times ❤️

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zarathustrad 15 points a day ago

Wait till they find out how the original Doom was distributed.

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certified_expert 2 points a day ago

How?

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RickyRigatoni 1 point 13 hours ago

Portals through hell.

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rozodru 13 points a day ago

uh yeah. id games were notoriously easy to crack. Hell for Q3A all you needed was the demo and for someone to give you the missing pak file. that was it.

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rabidhamster 12 points a day ago

Original Starcraft: just mash your keyboard. Usually by the 10th try, you'd land on a valid license key.

Same with mid-90s Photoshop.

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Fishnoodle 12 points a day ago

I remember having my dad drive me a half hour to the 'local' media play store and picking it up for 9.99, mainly because of the NiN song on the demo, and then a few months later I found the qrack and it was fucking amazing. I loaned that cd and a floppy disk to other kids for games, porno mags(even better a vhs I could make a copy of), movies, CD's, cash, etc.

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Gerudo 6 points a day ago

I don't even remember a keygen for the shareware cd. I remember a console command that unlocked the full game.

I don't remember the cd having the other games though.

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kmartburrito 5 points a day ago

I used to have this, I wish I remembered where it was. I remember there was a companion 3.5" floppy the cracking utility was on.

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