Passed 35000 cracks

Sorry for not updating the blog for a while, but its been a while since I passed 35000 cracks in the archive.

The work between 34000 cracks and 35000 cracks is really special as besides adding 1000 cracks there have also been alot of fixing and replacement of exsisting cracks in the archive. This happend because I got my hands on some special disks which contains alot of cracks and the owner got the cracks from his friends who were in some of the C64 top groups. This gave me alot of extra picture files, docs etc. A big thanks for letting us transfer the disks.

Also we are finding more and more new disks to transfer. Thanks for all the people making their disks available, helping finding disks, transferring disks and making the tools available for us to use finding all the great releases.

American TV-Shows and board games

In the last 80s and early 90s there was released several titles based on american tv-shows and amercan boardgames. It seems that some of these games wasnt spread that well which means some of them are hard to find. For some of the games I havnt even found the cracked or imported version yet and for others.

Im sure these games has been cracked as the american scene had so much competition that any release would be needed. If you have cracks or imports of these games please contact me:

• Advance to Boardwalk (got the Mirage crack and one import from Science 451)
  
• Card Sharks (got the INC crack and the import by Hotline)
  
• Classic Concentration (got a few imports, but never found out who cracked the game originally)
  
• Classic Concentration Second Edition (got a few imports, but need the original cracks from either NEC or ESI)
  
• Double Dare (got no cracks or imports of this)
  
• Go To The Head of the Class (got one import from Hotline)
  
• Hollywood Squares (got no cracks or imports of this)
  
• Jeopardy (released by UCF, but got no imports)
  
• Jeopardy Junior Edition (got the NEC crack and only a few imports)
  
• Jeopardy Second Edition (got a few imports, but not the original NEC crack)
  
• Jeopoardy Sports Edition (got a few imports, but not the original ATC crack)
  
• MTV Remote Control (got a few imports, but not the original NEC crack)
  
• Payday (got a few imports of this, but not the LRU crack)
  
• Press Your Luck (got no cracks or imports of this)
  
• Super Password (got the NFI crack and a few imports)
  
• Wheel of Fortune (got the UCF, but no imports)
  
• Wheel of Fortune Golden Edition (got no cracks or imports of this)
  
• Wheel of Fortune Second Edition (got one import from Ikari)
  
• Wheel of Fortune Third Edition (got one import from Hotline)
  
• Win Loose Or Draw (only got one import)
  
• Win Loose or Draw Junior Edition (only got one import)

34000 cracks in the archive and american releases

I have reached 34000 cracks in the archive. Alot of interesting titles has been added to the archive.

Over the last weeks I have been looking a bit on european imports of american releases. This is not an easy task as even whe n they had more strict release rules then its stille possible to find 2 groups releasing the game.

A few examples to mention is Project Firestart which were cracked by ATC and NEC, Rack'Em which were cracked by ESI and NFI.

Updating exsisting titles in the archive

Over the last weeks I have been updatering several exsisting titles in the arhchive. The reasons for updating the exsisting titles can be missing files (like an extra picture file, docs file etc.), incorrect names or garbage on the disks.

You have to remember that this is not a final archive before its online on the full site here. This means anything can change during the work. I know a few persons take files from the archive and upload to other sites - make sure you keep track of what you uploaded and check if these releases has been changed.

33700 cracks in the archive

More and more cracks are being added to the archive and its great to see the archive gets closer to 34000 cracks. I can promise that alot more cracks will be added to the archive soon. We are getting more and more disks to transfer. A big thanks to all the people who help finding people with disks and thanks to the people who transfer the disks also.

A group of people have contacted me to ask me if it was possible to get a copy of the archive. Ofcourse its easy to do a copy, but problem is the collection is getting old too fast as Im still changing alot of files. This can be a namechange, adding a missing file etc. which make the file change. Please wait till its ready as I wanna be sure all the releases are okay.

Passed 33000, Sly Spy Secret Agent and disks

First a short notice is that the archive contains over 33000 cracks at the moment. I havnt added so much titles lately, not because Im running out of material to add, but there have been alot of other work to do with some specific releases.

One of the specific releases are Sly Spy Secret Agent from Hotline. I got a few questions about this release and people sent me the Hotline tagged Genesis Project release where Hotline explains that noone else than Genesis Project can release this game as they stole it. I know about this release and it has nothing to do with this. Even that Hotline mentioned noone else could crack it then Hotline did their own crack later on. This is the release Im looking for. Sadly the release were found on a bad disk. As an extra note I can mentioned their version got 5 trainers.

Last time I mentioned about the 2600 disks and theres more work with disks going on. But still more disks are needed, several major groups did many cracks and I know for sure theres alot to be found still. So if you can help with disks either as transferred disks or we need to get them transferred for you. Contact me if you can help.

$8000 games in the archive

A late Happy New Greeting here. I hope you got well into the new year of 2008. This is going to be an interesting year as alot of disks are comming in to be transferred, sorted and added into the archive. Its also the year where X2008 will be held and once again we are going to transfer disks at the party. So if you are going then remember to bring your disks.

Kinda a remarkable step here as I reached 32768 cracks which is also known as $8000, which is one of the important adresses on the Commodore 64.

Alot of work has been done lately. Besides the working on the 2600 disks I mentioned earlier here then I also got time to look at some special releases. Some of them are kinda easy to get working on the emulators but others needs some extra work and in this situation I get help from alot of friends in the scene - a big thanks to all for helping.

Working slowly these days

If you are looking in the archive list then you can see that the total number of cracks doesn't grow much. Theres more reasons for this, the first is I havn't used much time on the archive project lately.

Second reason is I have been looking on some specific games which needed some extra work to work on the emulators. Third reason is I have been studying a few mags which have listed cracks and the fourth reason is I have mostly been looking for cracks which are on the missing list.

Last reason is that the others and me have been working on transferring 2600 disks which contains alot of interesting releases. This needs alot of checking to make sure we can get so much on the disks as possible to work.

We are still in need of more disks and I realised how much stuff we need from the danish groups, but this doesn't make disks from other countries less interesting. So if you got disks and you will borrow them to us, then we transfer them.

Passed 32000 cracks today

Today I made it, reached 32000 cracks. It could have gone a little bit faster, but as Im still using time on checking up naming of the files and removing duplicates then I don't only work on adding cracks to the archive.

Also since I wrote last time I got files sent and collections offered. Thanks for all the people helping here.