I remember going through this journey of pirating software.<p>Eventually, as software started to receive updates, keygens were more interesting as those things didn't break when an update was applied (or the update failed because a checksum mismatch of some exe / dll.<p>For games, keygens and cracks were needed to bypass the original disc requirement. One could try to image the disc with Alcohol 120% which as able to retain the information needed to pass the disc checks. The output images were of the MDX [1] format. But those images were the size of your disc. So you had your installed game (e.g. 8.5GB) and now the image.<p>Eventually some people were able to create a 'fixed' image of the disc. I don't know if it was just an MDX with pointers to nothing, or whether this had to be done on a game-by-game basis. I can't link to anything here but searching for 'no-cd fixed image' explains this better.<p>You'd then mount those images with Alcohol 120% to play the game.<p>Later on more detections popped up and I remember having to use Daemon Tools as it employed more sophisticated measures to hide it from the games.<p>Also, I foolishly registered on Daemon Tools' website and to this day I get spam at daemontools@<mydomain>.<tld>...<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File</a>
Nice site!<p>From add_on.css,<p><pre><code> /*
player specific positioning of the displayed 'frequency spectrum', etc
NOTE: the reflection and position handling is a fucking nightmare: The Chome idiots
like to change their dumbshit implementation with almost every minor release.. each
time breaking what had to be used before.. bunch of clueless morons!
(Their latest achievement: reflection suddenly disapears (border and all) AS SOON as
JavaScript draws to the contained canvas. Of course they are also too dumb to use
regular font definitions anymore.)</code></pre>
*/
Other resources:<p><a href="http://keygenmusic.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://keygenmusic.org</a> -- A hugh library of keygen music<p><a href="http://modarchive.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://modarchive.org</a> -- Site for Tracker Musicians
Good stuff although it sounds different from any other player I've heard.<p><a href="https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835</a> goes hard.
Try out the "classic" player for a cooler UI: <a href="https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/</a>
Oh man, this is a nostalgia bomb. I wish this had a search feature, so I can't find my favorite one, though I'm sure it's on there. Author if you are here, I'd love the ability to search, rather than scroll through thousands in a drop-down on mobile.<p>Unreel Superhero 3. I think it was off a keygen for Sony ACID, propellerheads Reason, or Daemontools, can't remember which.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0</a>
The site greets me with "Your browser vendor has disabled autoplay". Nope, I have disabled autoplay.<p>This may be a music player, but please don't play anything without my permission...
Not directly related to the music. But I noticed that most games that I s/pirated/borrowed when I was young, I then bought them legally (on Steam/GOG, but when on sale) when I started making money (have a job). I don't even play them again, just the sense of "owning" them makes it worth buying. I don't know what to call this phenomenon. Guilt?
As someone who authored some keygen templates in this list (circa 1999-2000), this music was not commonly properly sourced. Chip music had already turned classic and we would pick what we liked. Providing credits was best effort. At some point we were very happy to collaborate with a chip music artist who made a tune just for our template, this was more the exception than the norm. tl;dr: this archive doesn't carry proper credits to original artists. The demo scene is where it's at.
Great stuff. Started at #1 - am waiting for my Wavestation keyboard keygen to come up. I can't believe I paid with a card to a well-cool site based in Albania (warez.al? something like that): they delivered and I became an irregular customer.<p>I have since, legally purchased all the Korg Vintage items :-) Those were the real 'try before you [can afford to] buy' days.
<a href="https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608</a><p>This is the X-Out loader music by Chris Hülsbeck, which you can find here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqadZEIAU8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqadZEIAU8</a><p>I used to have this keygen and I'd leave it on to loop all day in the background while I worked circa ~2005.
Mega Man themes!!!<p><a href="https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884</a><p>I can't believe it!
Ah, how I recall in the late 90s browsing through the seedy sites looking for the specific version keygen/crack I needed... back before ad-blockers and those websites were like 10% content, 90% porn ads, on dial-up. These all sound so nostalgic, even if I can't recall which specific tunes I heard back then.<p>This is great. Thank you.
Best track is Marble (R2R Ableton) hands down <a href="https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724</a>