> There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect.
What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware.
> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted for copy protection, or rip a CD for that purpose. This only became popular once hard drives became big enough for people to spend many gigabytes imaging their CDs.
RAR is the standard way to distribute warez scene releases. If you're getting your releases from a topsite or other high quality sources, everything will be in RARs. Installing WinRAR is the first thing you do when scening. It's like when you install Windows and install Firefox before doing anything.
What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware.
> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted for copy protection, or rip a CD for that purpose. This only became popular once hard drives became big enough for people to spend many gigabytes imaging their CDs.
Actually, it was Daemon Tools :^)