Re: Paganini

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:04:13 -0800, El Kabong <Quickdraw@HannaBarbera.com> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:24:06 +0000, 83ixc3 <noreply@mixmin.net> wrote:

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                         [mucho snippage]
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wow! that registration key worked on a test install of "a32en193.exe"
to the default diirectory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Agent\" in w1124h2,
about agent "licensed to: me pirate, serial # 15462570, copyright (c)
1995-2002, forte, all rights reserved" ... first time i've ever seen
an actual licensed (or cracked) version of forte agent running on my
own pc...

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I was in a warez release group in the late 1990's and one of our
brilliant crackers came up with a (long lost) keygen.
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The copywrite holder has 3 years to file, and the statute of
limitations for software piracy is 5 years; I haven't done it for
20 years. I'm not proud of my misspent youth, but I don't deny it
either.

i didn't even know what cracked software was until some of it fell
into my lap . . . e.g. the adobe font library, acad 13 for windows,
aldus pagemaker, quark xpress, coreldraw, many others which had not
yet been released, 3dstudio, i've forgotten what else (it's been so
long since mid-1990s), but most of these premium software windfalls
proved so useful that no one was complaining about it (pcs and macs
were all the rage, and i'd been using dos since the trs-80, xt etc);

oddly enough, i started in early computer-aided design because like
my father (mechanical engineer/draftsman), consulting opportunities
for cad and desktop publishing, computer tech, training, etc., were
lucrative, so one thing led to another . . . next thing you know, i
was swimming in computer-related enterprise until about 1996, after
which i was retired from the system by circumstances beyond control,
been a hobbyist ever since no complaints (it'll be over soon enough)