11 April 2010, 04:19 | #1 |
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Europe Underground Scene Vs US Underground Scene
Which was better?
Were there more crackers in the US for the Atari or for the Amiga? What about the 8bit scene. It seemed from the cracktros that a lot of the crackers were from the Europe but there were always a lot of bbs's advertised in the US. Just seems odd to have the crackers in Europe and the BBS's in US. Thanks in advance |
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The Amiga was not big in America only Europe, England and to a certain extent here in Australia so you would have not seen a large element of cracking going on for the Amiga in the US. Similarly the Atari ST and C64 were also quite large across Europe but i cannot comment on the popularity of the ST in the States, although i know the C64 was pretty much HUGE everywhere!
Not sure about the BBS advertisement issue on crack screens because to be honest i never really noticed that many that were from the US but maybe that's just my lack of observation |
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I know most of the cracks I got were from Europe, I don't think I got any games cracked by Americans, but perhaps the early Quartex Games?
What about C=64? Most of the crackers were in Europe as well? I know that there was a strong hack/phreak scene in US that used C=64 you can tell by the dialers that they released even early MS DOS utils. |
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was just wondering if there were any US Amiga crackers? Perhaps QuarTeX members?
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From what I remember on the Atari ST, there weren't any well-known crackers from the US. The Americans tended to be running the BBS and trading.
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@birdy-scc: That's what I kinda figured, it seems that the Americans had all the $$$ and hardware, and Europeans had all the software skills.
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There were famous american crackers on amiga too, The Surge of Paradox/Quartex was one of them.
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was he the one who did the early Quartex releases like Hybris?
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I have heard many Brits say they don't consider themselves as part of Europe so i was trying not to rock the boat The following is what i found and guess it explains in more detail what they were getting at, so don't stress little one, i am not that geographically uneducated.
Geographically: it is part of the European plate Politically: it is part of the European Union In general: it is considered part of Europe as a whole The Brits themselves says that the UK is part of Europe but not part of Continental Europe. |
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Well, I don't want to get political or drag this thread too OT, but there are also a lot of Brits who wouldn't agree with the above.
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The reasons for the US having the BBS's and Europe the main cracking scene is simple.
Amiga was popular in Europe, it wasn't in America. Americans could buy modems and hard drives cheaper than we could. And the coup de grace was that bluboxing (phone phreaking) meant you could call the US for free, hence the plethora of US based BBS's. As already mentioned, The Surge/Quartex was American, I can't think of any others. |
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