> +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 developm

> +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