WaterQuestion and suggestion on Question #2Tue Nov 10 19:00:28 1998 Hi. I have a quick question/suggestion. So far, everything I have read in this forum has shown that it is attempting to help people who are completely new to cracking, and have absolutely no prior experience whatsoever. All the questions that have been asked so far by you (Sandman) have been very intelligent, well thought-out, and were emminantly answerable by the average newbie as long as they were able to use their brain the slightest bit. :) However, on this project - your question #2, seems to require a pre-existing knowledge of Soft-Ice, how to use it, how to examine protection codes in assembly, etc, and how to know and interpret what the devil you're looking at. :) For the first time, a question is asked that I, as a complete newbie, have absolutely no idea where to start with in order to answer it. I have a basic (and I mean BASIC) understanding of the rudiments of bringing up Soft-Ice and navigating it (*barely*). But my knowledge is surely not enough to intelligently go about answering the question you posed. The knowledge your question requires is something that the average tutorial tries to teach, but with the exception of newbies who have a strong programming background, they fail. Miserably. :) The average newbie without a strong programming background will be lost. I know I am - and I've read a couple dozen tutorials. I've gone over the Soft-Ice for newbie pages, as well as the assembly for newbies documents. I have the Soft-Ice User Guide and Command Reference. I have glazed over eyes and grey matter from reading it all. In short, I have some of the background, but no way to put it together in any practical real-life useable form. I have a basic idea of when to load up Soft-Ice, and what breakpoints are good ideas to use, but once SI pops - I'm lost. I can look around a bit, but I just don't know enough to do anything concrete at that stage. Navigating the code is a mystery to me. I need a live person to help. And I don't think that my position is that unique among complete newbies. Now, I don't know if you've taken this into consideration and have planned your project's path appropriately - but since question #2 brings up this issue for me, and since I haven't seen anything similar to my message posted before on this forum - I thought I'd bring it up. Please forgive me if I am belaboring a point you have already planned on dealing with - however, I was afraid that if I didn't bring this topic up now - I, and other users like me, might truly be lost by the time it might have come up in the future. Thanks again, and I apologize for any trouble I may be causing you. :) WaterRe: Question about newbies.. by The Sandman , Tue Nov 10 19:21