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Time for a new start
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There is one sure thing : Idiot losers remain idiot losers. And if the Angels guys were nice, they started being big headed. Stupid + big headed was a little too much to us.
So, together with my old Dragons mates (Mr Video and Corsair) we decided to leave Angels.
And joined Classic.
And left Classic (1 week later) …
= Pause =
Why leaving this fast growing cracking group soooo fast ? Coz I guess that they were growing so fast that they didn’t even had the time to crack the originals I had for them …
=> Play =>
So we joined Skid Row!
Wow. That is some serious band : crackers, bbs’, cards, money, hackers all over the world, phone conferences, members, members, members, members.
So many members that the leaders couldn’t even count them all.
However.
They could crack the serious load of originals that started flooding from my Amiga to their crackers’ computers (mainly FFC & Ralph, not to mention them). And that was some serious load really. No matter, they paid their crackers well enough (even tho’ some of them are still waiting for their money).
That was getting so serious that Angels and Paradox only had very stuff left. So few that they BOTH died few months after we’ve joined Skid Row (I know they ain’t too proud of that period but if you carefully check it out, we’ve joined Skid Row around November 1990 and they died few months later).
AAhh … Skid Row. Many people seem to remember of SKid Row like if that was some golden stuff or I don’t know.
Golden crap.
Reign of the stinky tricks, lies and bullshit. FFC, Metallica and Banditt could probably have written the book of the scene’s most crappy methods at that time.
Shall I mention a few ?
Yeah, they deserve it.
Number 3 : Release the crap trick !
We’re working on game but there seems to be some competition out there. No problem.
FFC : "Crack is not finished but release it! Kein problem. Spread the word it is cracked and let’s spread the unachieved crack anyway. We’ll fix it later".
Fun eh? Decent crackers gave up the game or lost their motivation. FFC released not working games and then later started spreading the fix. +1 day lamers (our Skid Row fans, or shall i say customers?) didn’t see the trick since they had no access to fast 0 days warez U.S bbs’.
Number 2 : Steal the wares :
Ah .. I liked that one. Either FFC (lame cracker) or Banditt (phreaker) pretended that they were joining your group.
If you were stupid enough to believe this, then, they started stealing your originals off your private BBS’ or such.
In you xss.
Number 1 : Use the phone companies or cops
How about setting up an international phone conference and then charge a member of another competitive cracking group ? Sounds ugly eh ? Nah. It just sound Skid Row.
Not enough ? Make anonymous calls to another group’s hacker and threaten him to call the FBI.
Ok, you got my point. After just a few months in there, when we found out how stinky some of the main members were … Guess what.
We left.
And together with some other Skid Row members, we’ve started a group call "Sprint"
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SPRINT and the legendary LEMMINGS
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On the paper, Sprint was a killer machine :
– Originals almost everywhere (France, UK, Germany, USA). Crackers, $$, hackers (cards, and already blue boxes), BBS’ …
– Affordable competition (pieces of Skid row, dead Angels, most of Paradox joined Quartex, …).
But we’ve made two mistakes :
– Someone believed that FFC of Skid Row wanted to join us (remember the ugly Skid Row tricks, lol) ;
– I was getting big headed and no one was really controlling this.
So what happened. After a couple weeks, we’ve started getting a few originals but all seemed to go wrong. For instance, i was first to get the game "Turrican II" and sent it to Gaston (Sweden, yes one of our crackers).
The day after he told me that after some intensive tests, the crack worked but the end sequence was missing. Since Gaston wasn’t some sort of FFC, he refused to release an not working game (hi Gaston!). I blamed him for this (Skid Row’s school) and we’ve lost him.
Ofcourse, getting another game to crack took long enough to get beaten by another group. We’ve missed Turrican II.
In the mean time, some other suppliers sent two game too FFC.
Guess what.
They went released by SKid Row … strange eh?
And I was warning my team mates who seemed to still trust FFC.
Short after, oh damn I caught the exclusive game "LEMMINGS".
Lemmings was one of these games you want to crack. Some sort of legendary games that breaks into history. You know for sure that your crack intro, attached to this game, would be seen thousands if not millions times all over the world.
What you need is :
– An intro (ok) ;
– The game, fast if not first (we were not only first but alone for hours if not days) ;
– A decent cracker … hrm
Now, I was prolly one of the first person to get the package in my hands. Excited, I was calling around to get a hold of a cracker. But no one was picking up up phone and because of me, we’ve lost Gaston.
But we still one had one available cracker … FFC.
"Give it to FFC" they said. "You can trust that guy". And me, excited and stupid enough, i sent the game to him.
You know the rest. Skid Row cracked our "LEMMINGS". They couldn’t release the doc since i had the original in my hands. Doc in my hands and huge stuff in my butt.
And then I went nut. Really nut.
Next chapter : "Loneliness and bankruptcy"