Alien Breed:
not sure it qualifies but I found this message don't remember where, maybe while working on the patch, it's been 15 years my memory is fuzzy. I suppose Stefan Boberg wrote this
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ZALIEN BREED V1.3, =SB= 14-Oct-91
Main program code by Andreas Tadic and Peter Tuleby, Graphics and game design
by Rico Holmes, music and sound effects by Allister Brimble,
additional programming, bug fixing, copyprotection, data compression routines
and algorithms, and fastmem sample players by Stefan Boberg
== "Funny facts" about this game...
1) Source code is unreadable and extremely sensitive to changes
(banana-code at the highest level).
2) My first protection had to be removed due to the fact that those f***ing
duplicators couldn't copy it reliably , so this is really not the protection
I wanted to put in (this one was threwn together in great haste in two days,
completely from scratch) . For a REAL protection, look forward to PROJECT X
from Team 17 software, released Jan-92.. It will be tough!
3) A dozen or so MAJOR bugs were fixed within three days.. we worked 72 hours
without sleep! I worked even longer after that... I hate the sight of this
bloody game, sure hope it'll sell well, so I can get some serious cash and
buy some goodies for me... like a Fusion Forty for my little A3000
4) The game's gotten rave reviews in all major mags, YAHOO! (six-page review in
ACE, three pages in CU AMIGA etc..) Good job we payed them all that money!
(not really... 5) After this sentence is finished, this game is 100% finished
, and you cannot possibly imagine how bloody RELIEVED I am.... phew... Over and out...
bibi
>w
FILENAME> abfinal.s
>! Exit, are you sure? Y bzzzt.... EOT
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What's funny is that the protection is known to be very difficult to crack
But "look forward for Project-X" is ridiculous: I think I cracked Project-X in 5 minutes (special edition at least), well I don't remember having such a hard time with it. I'm not sure of ever working on the original Project-X...
Managers must have told "bibi" to tone it down protection-wise