[mavamaarten]

I absolutely adored the little intro that Razor1911 added to their crack of GTA IV. Cool graphics, nice jingle, short, to the point. https://youtu.be/htbDeD-wv7s

Also not entirely related (kinda?), but I also regularly listen to the music that was inside the Digital Insanity keygen for Sony Vegas. https://youtu.be/kJln_F7Y2P4

Nostalgia!

[Fnoord]

> Nostalgia!

Maktone [1] did some very nice chiptunes for Razor [2] [3]. This playlist [4] has a lot of good Razor ones, I bet someone was looking for [5] =]

Also, a lot of keygens didn't have to be used back when a simple hexedit of one value could validate the software. I remember that being the case for mIRC. And Sublime Text. I mean, it could be as simple as changing an if statement to if not. I use the same idea for Proxmox. It is quick and dirty, but not the way the code was intended. If you wanna go that route, a keygen is the way (a serial does the job). With crack, you never know what it does, same goes for keygen (wrt malware). I still love Serials 2000. A program which had all the keys and serials in existence. Which was a big feat back in the end of '90s when search engines were shit. It even had regular updates/patches.

As for the website. Screenshots don't show videos.

[1] https://archive.org/details/all_20240526

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mwO26qel2U

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI46EyzaKI8

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5CC3A42488052F20

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32PLx21Bi0

[effekt]

He's still alive and well! While he's not super active and let his website(s) die, you can follow him on Facebook where he generally seems the most active these days: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063887643279&ref=...

And instead of YT/archive (though, shoutout to textfiles.com, which is now part of archive), https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scene.org/ is still where things are generally at

[stevekemp]

> A program which had all the keys and serials in existence.

That sounds useful! Back in the day reversing was fun, and I'd rather do it myself than risk downloading malware.

That said I'll never forget the name of astalavista.box.sk - which was sometimes used for reference, and +fravia for giving guidance to the beginners.

[jtvjan]

Maktone is so good! I remember hearing one of their songs in a GBA intro[1] and it still gets stuck in my head sometimes...

[1]: https://youtu.be/CGaqlSIUSEo

[panki27]

I have exactly the same Sony Vegas keygen experience as the parent poster, but with the song from your fifth link!

[ValdikSS]

Funny enough, that Digital Insanity tune was just an embedded .mp3, which was considered very low-key for the time—it greatly enlarged the .exe size compared to the chiptunes.