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Yup! Discovering SoftICE was a game changer. Various advanced SoftICE diablo 1 and diablo 2 multiplayer “enhancements” circulated back in the day... ones like b

Yup! Discovering SoftICE was a game changer. Various advanced SoftICE diablo 1 and diablo 2 multiplayer “enhancements” circulated back in the day... ones like bypassing the maximum level cap, making your user not render in multiplayer so you couldn’t be clicked on during pvp, among others. +orc and fravia +hcu stuff ate up loads of my free time in the late 90s and definitely helped later on once I got a formal computer science and engineering degree. Thanks for the memories SoftICE!

timewasted 7y ago
SoftICE and Diablo are the reasons I have a passion for software security and do software development for a living! Ripping Diablo and battle.net to pieces to understand how to make it do what I wanted it to do instead of what Blizzard wanted it to do was how I spent a good chunk of my childhood. So yes, thank you very much for literally changing my life, SoftICE!
aricz 7y ago
Did anyone find out who +ORC really was? I rememember there were puzzles to solve to find his real identity.
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- yread 7y ago
  I think it was just +Fravia's alternate ego for doing more legally questionable stuff
liopleurodon 7y ago
> game changer lol
- pantulis 7y ago
  Well spotted!
nprateem 7y ago
> +orc and fravia +hcu stuff ate up loads of my free time in the late 90s Ha ha, yeah me too. It was interesting to see how cracking affected software development too. Paintshop Pro 2(?) was the easiest "Hello, world" crack, but the next version was really difficult. I never got to the bottom of it. Their registration verification code seemed to be littered throughout a load of their initialisation functions instead being the simple `if isValid(userCode) unlock()` it once was. That said, it would no doubt have been easier to reverse engineer if I could have forward engineered at the time... QBasic wasn't really a good gateway to assembler :-D

timewasted 7y ago

SoftICE and Diablo are the reasons I have a passion for software security and do software development for a living! Ripping Diablo and battle.net to pieces to understand how to make it do what I wanted it to do instead of what Blizzard wanted it to do was how I spent a good chunk of my childhood. So yes, thank you very much for literally changing my life, SoftICE!

aricz 7y ago

Did anyone find out who +ORC really was? I rememember there were puzzles to solve to find his real identity.

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yread 7y ago
I think it was just +Fravia's alternate ego for doing more legally questionable stuff

liopleurodon 7y ago

> game changer lol

pantulis 7y ago
Well spotted!

nprateem 7y ago

> +orc and fravia +hcu stuff ate up loads of my free time in the late 90s Ha ha, yeah me too. It was interesting to see how cracking affected software development too. Paintshop Pro 2(?) was the easiest "Hello, world" crack, but the next version was really difficult. I never got to the bottom of it. Their registration verification code seemed to be littered throughout a load of their initialisation functions instead being the simple `if isValid(userCode) unlock()` it once was. That said, it would no doubt have been easier to reverse engineer if I could have forward engineered at the time... QBasic wasn't really a good gateway to assembler :-D