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Re: How do I begin a hacking career
Article: 8936 of alt.hackers From: cs95rro@brunel.ac.uk (Arch-Wizard Ryan, The Dark Angel of Vengeance) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: How do I begin a hacking career Date: 25 Oct 1995 12:45:01 -0000 Organization: The Root of All Power Lines: 37 Approved: Yup. Message-ID: 46lbgd$1rb@ccsp-01.brunel.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: ccsp-01.brunel.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Chris Clemson (clemson@emi.u-bordeaux.fr) wrote: : Ow shucks, what a waste of a beeb. Don't I know it! : here's my 1st <tada> obhack (beeb related) : ObHack: : Around 2/3 years ago I dug out Rocket Raid, as I hadn't finished it, and I : hate unfinished ones. Classic game : Anyway, I was getting back into the rythme of playing it, when I kept on : getting stuck on the purple bit with all the tight corners. : Eventually, I got good at it, but I kept on crashing into a fuel pod which : you have to shoot to get past, but there are so many keys for the game Let's see... left, right, up, down, bomb, fire... hmm.... : (well, more than I could handle), I decided to try out some lego building. : I built a device with lego and a motor to hammer the return (fire) key. : Sure enough, when I got to the tricky bit, I turned on the motor and got : past it. I know it was cheating a bit, but I was getting annoyed, and you : can't change the keyboard layout. Nice idea. : Hmm, might be usefull in other games.... never finished Exile..... Another Classic game... ObHack: Cutting one of the tracks on a serial card to get an extra 2 serial ports (COM5/COM6) -- ********************************************** * Ryan O'Connell <cs95rro@brunel.ac.uk> * * http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~cs95rro/ * * finger:cs95rro@molnir.brunel.ac.uk * * (Includes PGP key and talk location) * **********************************************
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