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[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (6 children)
                       Win XP  

GXYPJ-4W67Q-6273F-QJ7FR-9MW4M

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
Starcraft 1 - 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

(for some reason all 3s worked)

[–] solidsmoke@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For StarCraft, the installer would do some math on all but the last number, then see if the result of that matched the last number to decide if the key was valid. So you could enter random numbers, then just retry while changing the last digit and guess a valid key in max 10 tries

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Or 11 - the last digit could be X (for ten) if they were using the modulo 11 check digit system.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same for Counter-Strike 1.6, but there it was

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

All 3's worked too for CS (at least 1.5), that's what we used

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

only illegal if Microsoft still supported XP.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

XCNF8-R99R9-R4XV8-2VQD7-FJP6M

[–] wischi@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Wasn't that FCKGW-RHQQ2-YX... Something 🤣 knew that entire key for a pretty long time, but looks like it starts to fade.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

This is how Elrond felt when someone spoke the words from the one ring.