Not an old hack, but a work colleague used to write simple games (fit on a floppy) and would sell them to schoolfriends for lunch money. He ensured repeat business with a time-bomb built into the game. After x amount of time the game would die and his mates would have to buy another one. At 50 cents a throw he did quite well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jos Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun > > My oldest hack was in the '80s when I was at school. We had a > network of BBC Masters and Micros set up and a friend and I > managed to work out how to pull the really annoying music out > of a game he had, save it to the shared hard drive and > remotely order every machine to load up and play it... > The resulting cacophony was my first lesson in serial access > issues - each machine had to wait to load the song from the > hard drive, then played it immediately. Version 2, which > gave them a few seconds to all catch up was better. And it > included the ability to lock out the keyboard too. > Of course, the number of pupils who knew enough to do that > sort of thing could be counted on the fingers of one hand, so > we didn't get away with it for long. > > Jos > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
