--------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Jason Scott / TEXTFILES.COM Printout Collection These are original linefeed printouts fed through a Optical Character Recognition system, with hand-editing done afterwards to clean issues with text rearrangement and OCR errors. The printouts are from a collection dating from 1983-1985, and were generally made on an Epson MX-80 Dot-Matrix printer connected to an IBM PC-XT. The Bulletin Board Systems and other services were located throughout the United States, and captured by Jason Scott, who can attest to their authenticity. Spelling errors, content and extraneous system information such as prompts and menu items have been left untouched. Errors and other artifacts of conversion to this format should be considered in determining the validity or historical context of statements in these printouts. Description: Cracking Tips and Procedures Conference, Unknown BBS Date: August 1984 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A>1 CONFERENCE NUMBER: 001 HEAD OF CONFERENCE 001: THE MASTER THIEF CONFERENCE TOPIC IS CRACKING TIPS AND PROCEDURES --------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE 001 08/25/1984 --------------------------------------------- *** ANOTHER MSG *** >>> BY: MOON KNIGHT WELL I AM NEW TO KRAKING AND WOULD REALLY LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO DO IT RIGHT SO LETS GET THIS THING MOVING.. *** ANOTHER MSG *** >>> BY: THE MASTER THIEF BOOT TRACEING IS POSSIBLY THE EASIST WAY TO KRAC. FIRST OFF HERE ARE SOME BASIC IDEAS BEHIND BOOT TRACING. FIRST MOVE DOS BOOT DOWN TO SOME AREA IN WHICH YOU CAN MODIFY THE BOOT SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT DO WHAT YOU WANT IT TO. I LIKE TO USE THE AREA OF 9600 AND TO MOVE THE DOS DOWN, YOU WOULD JUST TYPE 9600>> BY THE MASTER THIEF OK ANY HOW, MOVE THE MEMORY THAT HAS BEEN LOADED IN TO A PLACE LIKE 9800(800 .900M NOW THIS WILL RUN AT THE LOCATION OF $9800 SO WE HAVE TO HAVE A JUMP TO 9800 AND ALSO A JMP TO MONITOR SO THATY IT WON'T LOAD IN ALL THE PROGRAM BEFOR WE HAVE SAVED OUR CRACK. BUT NOW IS THE HARD PART WHICH I CAN'T REALLY EXPLAIN IN ONE WAY, CAUSE EACH PROGRAM DIFFERS IN THE WAY OF PROTECTIO N. FIRST OFF YOU MUST FIND OUT IF THE PROGRAM USES SOME KID OF ALTERED RWTS OR IOB. IF SO THE NEXT YOU MUST MAKE MODS SO THAT COPYA WILL BE ABLE TO READ IT IN. IF THE PROGRAM BOOTS UP ONLY ONCE THEN, YOU MUST LOOK INTO THE AREA WHERE THE PROGRAM COUNTER IS AND THEN THIS WILL LET YOU DETERMIN THE EXACT START AND LENGTH OF THE PROGRAM. IF THE PROGRAM USES FURTHER PROTECTION SUCH AS NIBBLE COUNTS GET A PROGRAM THAT WILL SEARCH OUT THE DISK AND LOOK FOR SOME THING LIKE (B0 C6) THIS IS ONE WAY OF TURNING ON THE DRIVE. THEN WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND THIS PUT 3 NOP IN THAT LOCATION. *** ANOTHER MSG *** >>> BY: THE MASTER THIEF HERE IS HOW TO BOOT TRACE HARD HAT MACK ======================================= 1 CALL-151 2 9600>> BY MASTER NINJA WELL THATS PRETTY GOOD MASTER THIEF. BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO CRACK C-64 STUFF?? *** ANOTHER MSG *** >>> BY: APPLE ASSASSIN PERSONALLY,I DONT LIKE BOOT TRACING... ONE OF THE VERY BEST AND EASYEST WAYS TO CRACK A DISK WITH QUASI NORMAL DOS IS TO USE MINI DEMUFFIN... IF ANY OF U WANT THIS PROG EMAIL ME... *NOTE* FOR SOME STRANGE REASON (THE RWTS IS SCRWEY) IT WOUNT CRACK 3.3P SHIT. LATER -1.1 A.A *** ANOTHER MSG * * * >>> BY: SYSTEM OPERATOR FOR THOSE WHO HAS AN 16K RAM CARD (LANGUAGE CARD) AND WANT AN EASY WAY TO CRACK PROGRAMS WITH IT...HERES AN EASY STEP.... ]PR#6 ]NEW ]CALL-151 I. C081 *D000