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Re: but wait there's more...
Posted By: Hamish SinclairDate: 5/3/02 11:03 a.m.

In Response To: but wait there's more... (Fernando.)

: You again?

: Two and a half years after the wild coding Blitzkrieg that
: created Marathon, I’m back here removing the serial
: number protection for the trilogy release. Without source.

: I had this really dumb idea back then that I’d have the
: game wait until April 1st 1995 before enabling a second
: layer of serial number verification.

: Ha. After hacking out three dialogs from each of the 68k
: and PowerPC versions, with only MacsBug to light the way,
: I’m sort of glad I never got time to do that.

: Now Myth is the order of the day, and we’re aiming for a
: early fall release. The coming summer won’t turn into
: the unairconditioned blur of boiling late nights ordering
: pizza and drinking powdered Gatorate to stay hydrated
: that 1995 was, but I imagine we’ll keep busy somehow.

: I have this feeling it’s going to be snowing again when I
: have free time again.

: So. No serial numbers. It’s always bothered me that
: Marathon’s public lifetime would be over when the last
: registration card or serial number list got lost. Hopefully
: this is the version that I’ll be playing in fifty years
: under emulation on some fuckfast portable the thickness
: of a sheet of paper that walks my dog, dresses me every
: morning and grinds up my food because I don’t have any
: teeth left. And hopefully it won’t be running Windows.

: Later,
: Jason (March 17, 1997 4:39pm)

This update to Jason's original resource fork message was first spotted by Jim Mitchell on July 17, 1997. See the What's New page on that date for details.

The original message has been mentioned a number of times on the Story page. The message also delayed the opening of the Story page.

Cheers
Hamish

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Replies:

sound from marathon(1)273BeLow (Fernando.) 5/3/02 1:56 a.m.
     weird find (probably not)Fernando. 5/3/02 2:13 a.m.
           but wait there's more...Fernando. 5/3/02 2:15 a.m.
                 Re: but wait there's more...Hamish Sinclair 5/3/02 11:03 a.m.
     Re: sound from marathon(1)Dan Aris 5/3/02 6:25 a.m.
           Re: sound from marathon(1)273BeLow (Fernando.) 5/3/02 6:33 a.m.
                 Re: sound from marathon(1)Aaron Gaponoff 5/5/02 1:27 p.m.



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