The Retro Hour – Episode 11 (Piracy on the Amiga with Galahad/Fairlight)

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by BarryB

Do you still keep looking over your shoulder or is that all done and dusted as far as the boys in blue are concerned?

I used to be a copper..........you work it out

[BarryB]

OOOH! The Gene Hunt type

[Gordon]

Enjoyed that, thank you.

Galahad, if you are looking for a little challenge, I have one here.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=81901

[Amon_RA]

I really enjoyed the interview, and I would love to hear the full original version.

[techguruuk]

Originally Posted by dreamkatcha

One thing that was really disappointing though; the line "we've come to the end of the show". It's a podcast, it ends when there's nothing left to say! I could have listened to this one all day. Was the producer giving the neck slash signal?

Well the show is called 'The Retro HOUR' so it does kinda keep it to a roughly specific time

[techguruuk]

Originally Posted by Amon_RA

I really enjoyed the interview, and I would love to hear the full original version.

There does seem to be a lot of interest in an extended cut of this chat, and no surprise as Galahad is fascinating. We will look into releasing it in some form

[techguruuk]

Originally Posted by Methanoid

Pity Dan couldnt get a panel on piracy!! That would be funny and informative.

I'd love to! If any of the retro shows/conventions were brave enough to host it, I'd certainly be up for it.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by techguruuk

I'd love to! If any of the retro shows/conventions were brave enough to host it, I'd certainly be up for it.

I might have to wear my Captain America playsuit disguise for that

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by BarryB

OOOH! The Gene Hunt type

Fire up the Cracktro! Couldn't resist.

[dreamkatcha]

Originally Posted by techguruuk

Well the show is called 'The Retro HOUR' so it does kinda keep it to a roughly specific time

Oh I see where this is going. You waltz in here with your rational thought and logic. Well it won't wash, I'm on to you!

[Higgy]

Great podcast.
I also could listen to a lot more of it. A rare glimpse into the magical world of the hacker gods!
I would love to hear the Robocop 3 copy protection dongle story first hand.

[rats]

Yeh we will be revisiting the subject in a later podcast, its such a big subject. Ravi

[BarryB]

Let's not forgot those who got jail time for this 'magical world' too! Maybe speak about those that got caught and how they got caught plus what happened to them?

[Phantasm]

I don't think anyone ever got busted for cracking. Most of the busts would have been sysops or people using fraudulent methods to make calls.

PS. I enjoyed listening to the interview. I can't believe you got away with throwing sickies to stay off work and crack games - they must've thought you were a hypochondriac.

[turrican9]

those crack intros are very nostalgic memories and I actually sometimes prefer to load floppy games (from real floppies or Gotek) over whdload.

Edit: btw, are there any lists of what games each crack team did?

[Methanoid]

Originally Posted by Higgy

Great podcast.
I also could listen to a lot more of it. A rare glimpse into the magical world of the hacker gods!
I would love to hear the Robocop 3 copy protection dongle story first hand.

Is there much to say on that? Ocean basically set a challenge to all cracking groups by saying it was uncrackable. Red rag to a bull. It then became a bigger title for the groups than it would have otherwise... Now if they had NOT put ANY protection on it.. well...

[jizmo]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

It was weird to me, havent heard my voice for a while, both the hosts (Dan and Ravi) have proper radio sounding voices, me? Not so much.

I'll have to disagree here, plus the anecdotes were interesting and explained in a clear and entertaining way. If you ever get around it, you should definitely consider doing some podcasts about cracking and copy protections in general.

[Methanoid]

Originally Posted by turrican9

those crack intros are very nostalgic memories and I actually sometimes prefer to load floppy games (from real floppies or Gotek) over whdload.

Edit: btw, are there any lists of what games each crack team did?

Open a full collection of TOSEC ADFs.. search for "CSL" and see what Crystal cracked.. QTX, FLT etc... Its a pity it only includes the year of crack/release.. I recall some days where we put out multiple cracks. Those were busy days for supplier, cracker and couriers...

[wXR]

Amazing, amazing podcast. Dan and crew, you are doing a fantastic job with this! Best one out there, I guess.

[kingpin007]

ahh yes the good old days of phreaking calls to d/l a 800k .dms or .wrp file on my dual standard hst modem 14.4k .. to then upload it worldwide then back to Australia for my peeps ere ..couriering was a hard job ... lol

late hours .. lots of junk food ... lots of sleep ins the next day to do it all over again ..