Game "cracking" done the right way!   by Software Pirates Inc (SPI)

S O F T W A R E P I R A T E S, I N C. presents Game "cracking" done the right way! Congratulations on acquiring a "cracked" game from Software Pirates, Inc. We at Software Pirates are always looking for ways to provide you with the latest and best in pirated software. We are aware that many others out there are providing similar services, but we feel that after you compare our work with those offered elsewhere that you will choose our versions over theirs. The reasons you will probably prefer ours is our attention to detail. When cracking a program, we don't believe in eliminating any of the games abilities. We want the game to be able to do everything (and possibly more than) it could do before it was cracked. This includes such things as maintaining High Scores and being able to run from any memory location. Many of the "cracked" programs being distributed today, do not do this. Most cracked games today, just provide you with a way of starting the game from DOS, and that is it! Once running, you can not even return to DOS and in some cases must turn power off just to end the game! We feel that this falls far short of any acceptable quality level. For this reason, we will make the following claim, ALL future games that we cracked will be executable from DOS and will return to DOS without any problems whatsoever. Furthermore, when reasonably possible, we will even allow games to run on systems, that the originals couldn't run on. We will try to make all game work on the entire line in IBM computers (Jr, PC, XT, PPC, AT). Here are some of the features that our cracked games will support: * High Scores and names will be saved. * On systems with two monitors, the loader will switch to the color monitor prior to starting the game and will return to the initial display when done. * On systems with just a color display, the loader provides a simple "Boss" key function. When exiting the program, the default screen is cleared and exiting messages is displayed. This can be very useful when exiting in a hurry because your Boss is coming in your office. * All games will return immediately to DOS when Ctrl-Break is pressed. The game will end regardless of what point you are at in the game. * Games that play with the timer, will be handled so that your DOS time of day clock will not be altered. * All games can be run off of any type of drive you have. Whether that be a floppy (any type) or hard disk or ram disk. Our loaders allow any type of drive to be used that DOS supports, including 3.5 inch drives. * The state of your keys (Caps, Ins, Numlock, Scroll-lock) are restore to original state on program completion. * Checks to make sure there is enough free memory in your system for the game. * Checks to make sure that Color Monitor is attached on games which require it. We recently have been putting in quite a bit of effort to come up with a general procedure to crack most games. For the most part, all has gone very well. You will see a lot of similarities between most of the game loaders we produce. This is no accident. It was done to allow use to crack games very fast and keep all the good points of previous loaders. Please remember that we are people just like you and at times do make some mistakes. When errors are found we will correct them and release a new version of the loader so that you can get it. To check the version number of your release, just simply use DOS' TYPE command on the *.COM file in this package. It will tell you the version number of the loader being used. When a newer one is released, you will be able to identify it in this manner. ... Software Pirates, Inc.