Sometimes the little details make me go “holy shit I fucking love piracy”. The still running tradition of installer music is probably the biggest one of those for me. Nothing will ever match that feeling and it came from crime.
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Demoscene, baby. People made things, shared them anonymously, and almost turned their nose at building a reputation or a brand.
The internet I fell in love with years ago is nothing like the pathetic shadow of it we live with today.
Macroblank has a fun compilation of remixed demo music, many of the original tracks are mostly known for being used in keygens. It’s called Keygen, obviously.
Tracker music is awesome.
Here is a link to a release on the internet archive. Other than that, take a spin around modland over FTP (ftp://ftp.modland.com/) or the Mod Archive.
Opening that crack.exe or keygen.exe.
FFF (Fighting For Fun) made some of my favorites. This is as good a thread as any to ask: I’m pretty sure FFF made a keygen with the main window having a pixel art’ish Milton, from “Office Space,” with his red Swingline stapler and I’m trying to find it. Anyone remember it and maybe have a screenshot or something?
I rarely pirated software back in the day except maybe Photoshop 7 (give or take a release) plus a couple popular plugins like “Eye Candy”, 3D Studio Max 5, or something like Nero Burning Rom but I don’t think it was for any of those. I associate the song at 4:20 of this video with it but I could be mixing memories at this point. The comment with the timestamps says it was used for Virtual Painter. That was standalone software but also a PS plugin (?), but unfortunately doesn’t ring a bell with me.
Anyway, I’ve been trying to find that silly pixel Milton off and on over the years if anyone else happens to remember it.
Ooh. I hope there’s a museum of keygens one day. That sounds like an art piece
Highly recommend FearofDark’s stuff
Also the classic Unreal Superhero 3 is the one I remember hearing most: https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0
On Android, you can get ZXTune, an app that directly browses and plays online demo scene chiptune databases like scene.org. It’s really great.