Fairlight-- 16 years has come to an end.

[James_D]

Fairlight has unfortunatly decided to close their doors for good.
they have supplied the people/scene with pirate versions of many exellent games and programs, for over 16 years. Their reasons for retiring is that to many other groups uses low tactics to narq the competition, and the feds.

Well for all you swedes... this is a sad day. Fairlight/ Digital Illusions was founded in Sweden 16 years ago, mainly doing C64 and Amiga cracks and later moved on to the pc scene.

Hmm... come to think of it, they made the Battlefield 1942
and cracked it.. hehe pretty funny... Guess that the new deal with EA made them stop the piracy...

Btw: Patrick Söderlund which is the CEO of Digital Illusions were also a founder of Fairlight demo divition back in the amiga years..

http://www.nforce.nl/nfos/index.php?do=2&id=34223

JD

[RedRed]

pity... great bunch.....

[HedsSpaz]

Not to be rude, but I'm not quite sure why we are supposed to bemoan the loss of a 'company' who's apparently primary function was an illegal activity. Unless there's something I misunderstood in your description of what they did.

Ian

[Gurm]

They weren't a company. They were a hacker/pirate group.

They made great contributions to the hacking scene, wrote many a fine demo, and generally knew their programming inside AND out.

The fact that they moved ... err what's a bigger word than Terabyte ... of warez is immaterial. Some of us support the "try it before you buy it" mentality of major warez couriers.

- Gurm

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Gurm
... err what's a bigger word than Terabyte ...

that'd be Petabyte ...

[DukeP]

Ah... I remember the intros they made. They where often better than the games intro!

Dungeonmaster on Amiga....

Sigh.

I met them at a convention once. Nice bunch of guys.
Off course, this was BEFORE the antipirat group began to burst any and all netparties they hear about.

~~DukeP~~

[Technoid]

I actualy had a tape with just their demos to C64
Great for parties

[M|x]

well, the people will join other crews, or create new ones, and keep on delivering quality warez for me and you

[Byock]

Have to agree Gurm, Why pay $50 for beta or even alpha software? If I like the software, and use it, I buy it. Then I am not out $50 on every piece of garbage, I try and hate.

[Gurm]

Yup. I can't count the number of times I've tried a crippled piece of shareware or a demo, decided that it will PROBABLY work if it isn't crippled, bought it... only to find that it sucked.

If I can't try a fully functional version I don't pay.

- Gurm

[Indiana]

Not to speak about those cases where you actually own the original but still use the pirated version as this one comes with features that the original should've had from the beginning
I had this quite often in the old Amiga days: there were games that, though spreaded over several floppy disks, didn't have an HD installer and/or had copy-protection that was majorly annoying even to those who bought the damn crap. The cracked version, however had - of course - the possibility to install on HD, no annoying copy protection, plus often extra features like unlimited lives and the like..

[The Rock]

Amen. Even today, CD copy protection is causing massive headaches to legit buyers. SafeDisc is a tool of SATAN!! Kinda funny when warez versions work better than the originals.

[XHotKolaX]

Originally posted by The Rock
Amen. Even today, CD copy protection is causing massive headaches to legit buyers.

CloneCD for image and CloneDrive to play. Yeah, only if you have HDD space to spare, but it's works brilliantly for me.

[Gurm]

XHKX:

Didn't know that CloneDrive was beating latest SecuROM. Pretty sure it isn't, actually. I don't use CloneCD to beat protections any more, I just get cracks.

- Gurm