ACRONYM Presents -- King's Bounty by New World Computing

The game, King's Bounty.
The company, New World Computing.
The cracker, R. Bubba Magillicutty.
The worthless help, Lord Zombie.
The supplier, Lord Zombie.
The majority of this text file, Lord Zombie.
The wine, Asti Spumanti.

Rating: Think for yourself, Schmuck!  (Stolen from someone else instead of
using something original?)

Bubba, Insert stuff about the game here.

"Well, if you insist..."
Notes from the Bubba:
This game was interesting.  Compressed with some new format I'd not
seen, though I never really played with it.  The basic crack was quite easy.
Five minutes for a messy one, ten for a clean one.  However, it turned out
that the clean crack would lock up the game when you walked on a chest. After
about 90 minutes of playing with it, I just gave up and made it messy.  I
really try to avoid messy cracks, but I also wanted to get some sleep
tonight.  So now the protection just flashes by, a small compromise between
protection that requires you to hit enter and a perfectly clean one.  I may
go back and play with this one some more to make it perfectly clean, but I
don't know if it's worth it.  I'd have to go in to all the graphic output
routines (17 at last count) and kill a CALL instead of just jumping over all
the garbage.  I suppose you can live with it like this, at least better than
I can live with knowing that I did a messy crack.
I didn't test this one too much.  I don't expect any more problems to pop
up, but the people who protected it were rather sneaky.  I tested the game as
much as possible and gave it to someone else to test on different machines,
and have seen nothing wrong.  But as ever, if you find any problems I'd be
only too happy to fix them up.
And now for some THG bashing.  For those few of you who didn't know, I
am no longer a member.  Whether I quit or was kicked out depends on whom you
ask (though the answers you get would be opposite from what you'd expect.) So
it gave me great pleasure to hear that Fabulous Furlough couldn't crack this
one.  I guess they miss me already.  Lord Zombie tells me Fabs has
disassembled some of my loaders and trainers trying to figure them out. Good
luck.  I've always believed that the best way to learn something is to figure
it out yourself, but if you manage to decipher my loaders, have fun.  And if
there are any more you guys can't crack, I'll be glad to take 'em off your
hands.
I hear that several FiRM members just joined THG.  They must be really
desperate, but I wish them luck.  I was never much into the group happenings,
but it seems to be mutating into something unpleasant.  It's nice to hear
that The Knack didn't join.  He's one cracker I really respect, so I'm not at
all surprised (and a bit relieved.  I wouldn't want THG to actually be able
to crack anything hard.)  It will be interesting to see what happens with the
FiRM people.  THG isn't known for hospitality or integration.

And now back to our regularly scheduled TXT file writer (I think future text
files will have a .HEY extension.  TXT is boring.)

ACRONYM Statistics for this game:
Games Released/Cracked to this Date: 1
Cheats Released to this Date: 0
Intros, Demos and Loaders to this date: 0

Bubba: "I hate statistics!"

ACRONYM And What We Stand For  (Pun Intended)

When you hear the word acronym, what do you think?  We think about
cracking groups.  Even if a group starts with a full name (The Humble
Guys, Public Enemy, etc.) it is quickly transformed into an acronym
(THG, PE, etc.)  We chose a one word name because we were tired of such
un-originality.  It is such un-originality that this group is vehemently
opposed to.  We are non-conformist, free-thinking individuals whom like
the unordinary.  Something no other group can offer, and never can.
Logically, we will be the only original group ever, because if another
original group comes along, they are deemed un-original for being
original because we were originally original.  I shall stop discussing
my philosophy because I have better things to move on too.  The first
better thing I am talking about is us.  We are better in more ways then
one, or two, or three, or ....

1.   We have generic crackers for such companies as: Copylock, Prolock,
Sega, Taito, any boot disk, and a few more.

2.   We have a generic interactive trainer for use on almost any
application, specifically games.  This trainer is incredibly easy
for us to use (it has it's own programming language that compiles
down to an executable file) that we can use to supply the best cheats,
bar none.

3.   We have the best loaders and loader programmers this side of
Andromeda.  Our loaders have VGA graphics and now in beta-testing,
Adlib.  Not only Adlib, but digitized voices on the Adlib;
the software companies have begun to scratch the surface of this
technology.  If you're not careful, we may even subject you to our
voices in an upcoming intro.  But fortunately for you, we hate rap too.

4.   Quality; we have a point-back guarantee; if your ACRONYM product
does not work, then simply return it to us for a file point refund.
Or something like that.

Listen to what some critics have already said about ACRONYM:

"Are you talking to me?" -- Sodomy Husain.
"I am not a man, I am a free number!" -- Patrick Mickgooeyhands.
"I'm off to Iraq to fight for lower oil prices.." -- G.I. Joe.
"These guys are the best in the world!" -- Mom.

Our current member list->
Lord Zombie
R. Bubba Magillicutty

And now a final plea from that Bubba guy:

If you'd like to be an ACRONYM member, let us know.  We would like to
keep the group SMALL.  However, a few more members could be quite helpful.
If you want something new, something different, something perhaps a tad bit
silly (but always fun!) then we're the right choice (no relation.)  What we
could use right now are more suppliers.  I only expect a small trickle of
games from those unable to crack them.  We have a beta tester and a game
developer already, and I almost have an EA beta tester (I just have to
sweeten the bribe a little, I guess.)  But we could use more.  If you're a
beta tester, or can supply us with games or money, contact either Lord Zombie
or myself.  We are always very appreciative, and will maintain any level of
anonymity desired (for beta testers.)  If you can supply, or are already
supplying but want something new and exciting, please contact us.

Have a nice day, Citizen!  Watch for more soon.  Games may be slow at first,
but expect a boatload of nifty cheats within the week.  I have a whole slew
of games waited to be trained stacking up.  Enjoy!