Hi Damian. to be honest, all the examples I've seen of these types of things came with a book, which was just a list of information that you then had to look up and enter into the game.
for example, for secret of monkey island, You'd get a list of pirates and what date they were hung (about 300 pirates I think), and before starting, the game would ask you for the date of one pirate's hanging. the problem was, firstly there were such things as photocopiers (this was back in the generally pre-internet days), and also the games could stil be cracked. One of the most amusing cracks I saw was of the stratogy war game dune 2, where somebody from whatever house you were playing as would ask you for some technical speks about dune machinary, again, all contained in the accompanying booklet. One cracfk I saw however, had inserted a rather interesting password thus: Harconan commander: "We have a traitor in our midst! you must prove yourself worthy to command the forces of our noble house, or be destroyed. Now answer fool! what is the length of the base of a harconan standard issue wind trap element?" player types: "bleep off" (obviously not bleep). Harconan leader: "Ah! I see you are worthy of representing our noble house, and are no traitor" Lol! while it's an interesting idea, I don't think in these days of freely available info on the net it would precisely work, ----- even without quite entertaining hacks. Beware the grue! Dark.----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:10 AM Subject: [Audyssey] puzzelware > Hi. > I have some ideas about this sort of protection of a sort. > In some of the older games I used to play with friends on old pcs like > yagar mission, and golden axe, you could crack the game without buying it. > But to do that you needed to solve the puzzel, or answer some general > knowledge question or some other challenge. > So you then had 2 choices. > 1. get the game, or 2 answer the challenge. > in some games you had to answer the challenge reguardless. > At 07:43 p.m. 6/06/2007, you wrote: > >>I've bunches of info, but I did already share it. There're some very easy >>steps to make cracking and cheating harder. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "kerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:09 AM >>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Urgent! pyracy issue for Shades of doom >> >> >>hate to say this, but shades of doom is not the only one. there is pipe 2, >>tank commander, hunter, and a hole lot more. just to name a few. the >>stupid >>thing with these games is, you can't post to the site. or maybe you >>could? >>not sure. never tried them. but I saw the game and was shocked to see >>people actually got those games cracked. >>it's flying around the blind community like a bug. and landing on >>computers. >>this is not going to be easy to stop. the person started by, posting this >>to >>a e-mail list. with a hole bunch of cracks. don't really like cracks. it's >>the game or nothing. anyway, I also asked some one, what is the name of >>the >>tool being used to crack these games. I would not say any more on this >>topic, but when the next game meeting I'll try and be there. I sort of >>have >>some info for the game makers. this is where I say take care. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:43 AM >>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Urgent! pyracy issue for Shades of doom >> >> >>> Hi Dark, >>> If you feel Shades of Doom is being pirated you should send an email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> and David Greenwod can do with it as he wishes. >>> Cheers. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >>> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >>> visit >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >>> any subscription changes via the web. >>> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Gamers mailing list .. 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