[Samir]

Cool stuff 🙂

Re Prestige, all I can say is that in summer 1995, I decided to quit the scene and to focus once of all on my engineering studies. As a consequence, Mok did leave as well and I am afraid soon after the entire Amiga division went down. But then apparently the PC division did become quite important and I know that Mok did some cracks for them as well. But that was another story…

Prestige Amiga was truly a fantastic group for about 2 years and we were really a leading force. But contrary to most of the other cracking groups, we remained very humble and down to earth. Our egos were kept to a very normal level and this regardless of the success we were having. And there was a tremendous sense of friendship within the crew. We were really driven by a desire to produce quality and keep “cool”. 

Unfortunately there were less and less games released and consequently the entire cracking scene died quietly but surely…And the rise of the PCs scene did not help at all.

I personally felt that it was getting too much about money with all these groups selling console copiers, PC cracks, CCs etc etc… 

In the past, money used to be a means to run a group (i.e. buy originals, pay phone bills, buy some H/W if needed etc..). But in the early 90’s some people thought they could make serious money with all these illegal stuff and the whole thing got quite nasty…

Anyway, I miss sometimes the adrenalin I was getting back then with late nights cracking, training, coding, organizing things, chatting etc.. 🙂

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