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Bill Gilbert
(C) ???????
Around the middle (?) 1983 Spectrum
appeared in Poland. The very complex cost
relatively inexpensive, but the program to
it - it's expensive. In those times, for 5
(Five), game programs on cassettes can be
to buy Spectrum. In the catalog I saw
Prices from £ 20 and above - up to 70.
Naturally, the pirates could not pass by
so chances are pretty easy money, so there were individuals who
were to rewrite the program on one cassette and sell magazines,
for example, with 5 games for the price of one game. Somewhere
in this time appeared the first copiers, which forced
manufacturers software to protect it. Later, there were
copiers, which are protected by soft copy (type Lerm-7), but
they are almost nobody used, because programs
were just hacking.
So, somewhere in the middle of the 85 th appeared in Poland,
self-published book - something like the benefits the young
hacker (something like this in the 92-m came at us, called
"Secrets Zx Spectrum"), the author of this book
This was the best Bill Gilbert. The appearance and
rather broad distribution of such
References at the end of the 86 th led to a surge
various operating under different
pseudonyms groups (such as "Tarzan boy").
Hacked by pirates of the program is not protected from being
copied and therefore spread very widely, wherever not afraid
Copyright. Mainly for hacking brains were not used, and special
devices - such as Magick in tr-Doce. Such
programs are easily recognized by a specific length and ugly
fill the screen at the end of loading. Many of them were
corrupted at the same time.
One of the first (first?) Group worked
under the pseudonym Bill Gilbert. The Group had
orders for the program, and later developed its own
stores in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic etc ...
Somewhere in the middle of 1987, the band broke up,
individual members have left for
Poland and other countries and continued their
work under the same pseudonym. "Signature"
original group was known loader,
consisting of two Basic-parts of length 186
bytes and 1770 bytes (and later an improved
until 1796). In the 90-92g. This loader has not yet
broke almost at the end of 92 - the first in
Lviv it broke and I have described in our local "journal"
method of breaking up, after which These loaders have
disappeared as a class. The other groups used their loaders,
one of the groups used loaders without any protection. The same
group later released a unique version of the disc programs
under the same name (often pokotsannye). Their last disk version
dated 1993 year.
Where now BG - no one really does not know,
know that he is one of the pirate
groups that distribute hacked
PC-shny software.
