Confess your sins

Eclipse · 16 August 2008, 04:12

Hi
I seem to have a lasting memory of a friend who used to often take the disks off the front of magazines in John Menzies newsagents.
He would often do this while we were supposed to be at school

It's a nostalgic memory that won't go away.
Anyone else do the same or other things that need confessing?

alkis21 · 16 August 2008, 09:36

Well, this might shock you but not all the games I had as a teenager were legally purchased. That's the biggest sin I can think of.

16 August 2008, 09:37

I hacked AmigaBasic to allow protected files to be resaved as nonprotected 'cause I thought it'd help me figure out what to do next in Arazok's Tomb. Didn't help me get anywhere with the game but it was fun to mess around with stuff like that.

TCD · 16 August 2008, 10:03

Anyone skipped school to play Amiga games? I did

Galahad/FLT · 16 August 2008, 10:07

Christ, where to start!

1). Skipped work to crack for Fairlight and Rednex
2). I used to take coverdisks, mate of mine would go one step better and take the magazine they were attached to as well
3). I cracked a game, having met the person who created it.

formater · 16 August 2008, 11:04

I cracked many C64 games, tapes of course, in 1984 the disk unit was very expensive for me.

Marcuz · 16 August 2008, 11:05

1) i skipped school a couple of times, and ended playing Eye of the Beholder or Ishar.
and one time Legend of Valour (but the school was flooded...)

2) i cheated in almost every game, at some point. i used extensively hex editors

3) i had less than 10 original games.

4) i redesigned the Topaz font to my needs and saved it over.

5) i copied several times Workbench and kickstarts.

6) Google is my friend.

7) a german amiga magazine is not.

Belgarath · 16 August 2008, 11:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by marco pedrana

7) a german amiga magazine is not.

That's not a sin

Marcuz · 16 August 2008, 11:15

heh you are right, i feel more innocent now

Galahad/FLT · 16 August 2008, 11:35

I managed to piss off the Bitmap Brothers

Leffmann · 16 August 2008, 12:22

The usual stuff; skipping school to play Amiga and CD32, playing a good 1000 games or so and not owning more than... 4 originals?

Me and my brother persuaded a friend to buy some game at the store, we copied the disks fast and then told him to go back to the store right away claiming it wouldn't run on his Amiga because he had no extra memory and to change it for another game, which we would copy as well. That one still makes me feel bad :S

Retro-Nerd · 16 August 2008, 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I managed to piss off the Bitmap Brothers

Have you tried teaching them to programme a better scrolling for their games?

Belgarath · 16 August 2008, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deleauvive

I used some parts of Gamebase Amiga for something it was not intended for

GameBase ST ?

TCD · 16 August 2008, 12:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leffmann

Me and my brother persuaded a friend to buy some game at the store, we copied the disks fast and then told him to go back to the store right away claiming it wouldn't run on his Amiga because he had no extra memory and to change it for another game, which we would copy as well. That one still makes me feel bad :S

Hehe, me and a friend had a similar 'game'. When buying CDs back in the nineties (before CD burners became cheap) each time we took out the CD off the case and claimed there was none inside. Of course we got another one

You had no cover for the CD and no booklet, but you saved a lot of money

spiff · 16 August 2008, 13:06

I never was into the really heavy cracking and so on... but the more fun innocent stuff, guess these are grounds for terrorist investigations today.

"Upgraded" the printer server to a (local) warez server at school.
Repeatedly fed my keyboard beer and coke
Liberated ram sticks from rich over class PCs and gave to the poor.
Thought I was really cool distributing stuff.. until I managed to infect some really nice ppl PCs with pretty much every known virus out there.

Muzkat · 16 August 2008, 14:10

I had in my possession hundreds of Amiga games, but only 12 of them were original.

My friend once lent me some games. He kinda forgot that I had them after awhile, so I never gave them back.

I once came to some deal with the local computer store, in which they agreed to give me a new joystick, but wanted me to pay them back within a week. I thought, "stuff you, I've already bought so many joysticks from you, you don't need my money...and you are idiots to give me the thing for free in the first place." They never got their money.

PWLM · 16 August 2008, 14:13

I took my ever-trusty non-working A500 PSU to a computer shop, and told the guy I would swap him for a working one and he could keep the broken one if he repaired it. He never worked out that I still needed to pay him for parts and labour...

DDNI · 16 August 2008, 14:35

Hmmm

- Bought a A1200 Mobo for a fiver. Never told the seller that it had a Scanmagic SD/FF attached. I felt bad about that. When I sold it last month I sent him £30 - Redemption!!!

Exl · 16 August 2008, 16:11

Oh boy...

Never having *any* original games with my Amiga, only the Workbench disks were original...
If the game had a trainer, I used it (and still sometimes failed miserably at it)...
Virii ran rampant among all of my disks that had at some point not been write-protected...

In my defense though I got the thing 2nd hand when I was 6 and knew nothing about computers

gklinger · 16 August 2008, 16:38

I killed a hobo with a shovel.

What? Amiga-related confessions? Whoops! Uh, I meant to say that I ran a pirate Amiga BBS from my A1000.

P.S. Forget that shovel thing.

16 August 2008, 04:12	#1
Eclipse Turpentine Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kent, United Kingdom Posts: 744	Confess your sins Hi I seem to have a lasting memory of a friend who used to often take the disks off the front of magazines in John Menzies newsagents. He would often do this while we were supposed to be at school It's a nostalgic memory that won't go away. Anyone else do the same or other things that need confessing?

16 August 2008, 13:06	#15
spiff Oh noes! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Neverland Posts: 766	I never was into the really heavy cracking and so on... but the more fun innocent stuff, guess these are grounds for terrorist investigations today. "Upgraded" the printer server to a (local) warez server at school. Repeatedly fed my keyboard beer and coke Liberated ram sticks from rich over class PCs and gave to the poor. Thought I was really cool distributing stuff.. until I managed to infect some really nice ppl PCs with pretty much every known virus out there. Last edited by spiff; 16 August 2008 at 13:16.

16 August 2008, 16:11	#19
Exl Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Netherlands Posts: 122	Oh boy... Never having any original games with my Amiga, only the Workbench disks were original... If the game had a trainer, I used it (and still sometimes failed miserably at it)... Virii ran rampant among all of my disks that had at some point not been write-protected... In my defense though I got the thing 2nd hand when I was 6 and knew nothing about computers

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