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Crack for Sale
Dave Taylor and Jonathon Clark wrote in to tell us that they are
selling the Crack.com domain name. If
you haven't heard of these guys, then you live in a box. If you haven't played Abuse or tracked Golgatha, then you also live in a box. Check out the action on the eBay auction page. As of when I saved this story, the top bid is $15k, which is is still quite a bargain for all that crack. And good luck to you guys, and thanks for Abuse. (I'm not sure which is more fun to say: "Crack for Sale" or "Thanks for Abuse" ;)
For those of you interested in trying abuse, remember its available using apt-get/dselect in Debian.
Sorry, I never heard of them before. Though it's probably you guys who live in a box, or more precisely : in front of it. There's a bright world out there. You know that place in EverQuest, it seems huge, doesn't it? Well the other one that you could go in if you got up and went trough the door is bigger, and is even more interractive. This world has been Game Of The Year for 4 billion years now!!!
Not only does ti redirect to buy.com, but it redirects to their _comptuer_ homepage... Thats got to make you wonder...
Mark Duell
15K? That's absurd. The last time I had mod points, the stret value of crack was around $3.00 a rock.
Yes, but this is for some 500,000 hits a month! A bargain compared to your price of ($3.00 * 500,000) $1.5 million.
--------- Beware the dragon, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
A big percentage of those "bulk domains" will probably be dropped when renewal time comes around.
At 15k, it's a bargain. even witht the new TLS's coming online, .com is still where the money is. (except maybe for the $2000 price tag of .biz) It'd be a good investment.
It'll probably turn out that a plumber buys it though.
Yep, I never spell check.
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Well, it's sad to see it all come to an end. Even after Crack closed it's doors, crack.com was still there, a reminder of what had been. I remember when it was hosted on a Mac connected via 56K dialup. Such a group of talent has rarely been assembled. I hope the price keeps climbing. $15K is nowhere close to the money that was put into Crack. Good luck, Dave & Jonathan. Hi Oliver!
-Mike
These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
Tell me what makes you so afraid
Of all those people you say you hate
Hey DDT,
Just out of curiosity, what did you set the reserve price to? If it were me, I'd probably want at least $100K (and maybe more). That's a great domain name.
--
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Crack dot com for sale
Perhaps it will be sold to
Virtual Crack Rock
the $15K shouldn't matter, as it's not yet up to the reserve, and who knows what that is... *BUT* then there's this detail on the site: "The name will be sold before the reserve is met, so don't wait until the last minute to bid." Huh? If you set a reserve price, why sell it before it's met - you know folks are going to test the reserve, and a bid below the reserve price is non-binding. Either there's some confusion here, or else these guys don't need the money, or else this is the equivalent of a pawn-shop deal on eBay... You mean this isn't the part-time-plumbing repair union site (with apologies to Bill Murray's old SNL bit...)
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Go figure. I guess Slashdot really is a tight community, and I'm an outsider. What about acid.com or speed.com; are they for sale?
If you are modding me down because you disagree with me, use the "Flamebait" category, not the "Troll" one.
Hope crack dot com sale gets JC enough money to continue big time development...
err...yeah! Thanks for Abuse.
:-)
It's amazing... I'm afraid I'd have to admit that I was a bit late to discover "Abuse", but in this day and age of overblown FPS, 3GHz minimum system requirements and whatnot... I stumbled upon Abuse in the clearance bins at Fry's Electronics. Only $10, why the hell not? This ended up becoming one of the BEST games I've ever played, for entertainment value alone. I've never had a game scare the shit out of me so bad. Quake3? *yawn* Abuse? Suspense will kill you if you play it in a dark room at 4am in the morning with your speakers close by and reciever cranked up.
Yeah, I bought Abuse long after Crack Dot Com closed its doors, but it's too bad the spirit of the company probably won't be kept alive when this domain finally changes hands.
It's been a long while since I bought Abuse, and it's still up there as one of the better games I've played in my life. Good job, boys.
Most people who read Slashdot are college kids who got admitted to the CompSci department on their Math SAT scores alone, overlooking their embarassingly mediocre English score.
They then have proceeded to waste some of their best drinking years of their life by hanging out in the computer lab or on IRC and generally avoiding any sort of liberal arts or humanities class that they absolutely did not have to take. This is necesssary because those classes have many girls in them and professors that used to smoke dope 20 years ago, both of which make the Average Slashdot Reader very nervous and anxious to get back on IRC in the computer lab.
So, consequentally, when the Average Slashdot Reader gets his turn at moderation points, he is puzzled at the strange word "Insightful" and not quite sure what it means. He could go and look it up, but that would be something that a tweed jacketed dope smoking liberal arts professor would do. So feeling that "Score 5:Insightful" has a nice ring to it, he doles the label out onto posts which have a blunt sort of humor that the Average Slashdot Reader can recognize as not quite funny, but generally recognizable as humor. Since he can't quite articulate quite what that sort of post is, "Insightful" is good enough and then he moves on with his day, back on IRC or off to the cold girlless labs.
Hmm... along with heroin.com and cocaine.com, this domain name is a great opportunity for any enterprising urban businessman.
From Abuse FAQ
"Purchasing Abuse
Is Abuse Public Domain?
The source code, artwork, and shareware levels (1-4) are public domain. This means you are free to copy, sell, or modify it with no restrictions. To get this point across you can do the following:
1.You can write a book about games and include the data on CD with the book. Some people have done this already.
2.You can put the data on a FTP or web site without asking permission to do so. People have done this many times as well.
3.You can make your own game based off of the Abuse source and artwork and sell it as your own. As noted below you can't call the game Abuse or Abuse 2 because the name is trademarked.
Data that is not public domain:
1. The sound effects in Abuse are owned by Bobby Prince (contact http://bpmusic.com). Since we do not own them we cannot make them public domain, but you should not have a problem using them in most cases. Besides they are 8bit 11khz, games these days are expected to have higher quality.
2. The levels with commercial Abuse (4+) are not public domain. We did not make them public domain because some stores are still selling the game."
fyi
Goat sex free since 2001
(heh, heh..)
Jokes aside, though:
"Crack was a game company started in 1995 by Dave Taylor and Jonathan Clark. Taylor was working at id Software and had co-authored Doom and Quake. Clark was fresh out of college, burning to start his own game company and had already written a smooth, capable 2D scroller engine. The engine became Abuse, a 2D scroller still unique to this day for supporting a 360-degree aiming mechanism, a built-in editor, real-time lighting, a LISP interpreter, and portability to several platforms, including DOS, MacOS, Linux, Irix, BeOS, and others."
from crack.com
That sounds pretty useful
Goat sex free since 2001
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Does it bother anyone else that buycrack.com redirects to buy.com?
Stupid Cheap Guitars
humor for the clinically insane
great comedy company.
- Illegal drugs
- Butt porn
- Windshield repair
- Plumbing (redundant)
- The sound a baseball bat makes when you hit the ball
- Eggs?
Not a lot, compared to something like (fill in blank).Tell me what makes you so afraid
Of all those people you say you hate
15K? That's absurd. The last time I had mod points, the stret value of crack was around $3.00 a rock.
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
Crack Falls Down [2:03 AM EDT] The official announcement that Dave Taylor mentioned in an earlier .plan update of what's up with Crack and the Golgotha source has worked its way through the net. On the subject of the source, a later .plan update points out, "To those of you grabbing the source, you only need golgotha_src.zip to get started. Also, we goofed on the music name, it's "Helsinki, Finland", not "Helsinki, Sweden". *blush*" Here's the whole sad tale, told in good spirits:
WHAT: Crack dot Com is closing its doors.
WHY: Ran out of cash.
REALLY WHY: Lot of reasons, but then again, there are a lot of reasons that we got as far as we did. I think the killer reason, though, was that Golgotha was compared by publishers primarily to Battlezone and Uprising, and those titles sold really poorly.
WHAT NOW?: Now we file articles of dissolution w/ the secretary of state, and we file bankruptcy.
IS THAT IT?!: No.
WHAT ELSE?: We're releasing the Golgotha source code, and data to the public domain.
HELL YES! WHERE'S THE SOURCE CODE?: I want to personally thank everyone who supported & rooted for us. That was really nice of you.
YEAH YEAH, BLAH BLAH, WHERE'S THE SOURCE?: I want to apologize to the fans and business partners we've let down.
BOO HOO! WE CARE. OUT WITH IT!: Thanks for your patience. The source & data can be found at http://www.crack.com/golgotha_release. And of course, the ex-Crack developers are up to new & interesting things which you can follow at the web site.
WAIT A MINUTE. IS THIS STUFF FREE BECAUSE IT SUCKS?: No. Even if you thought the code sucked, there are 15 gorgeous pieces of music, 100 cool sound effects, and over 2000 hi-resolution textures. But trust me, even the code is cool. It's an ultra-modular outdoor 3D engine, and it does WAY more than Battlezone or Uprising even came close to. Check out the features page. You should definitely check it out if you've ever wanted a public domain, competetive, outdoor 3D engine.
THANKS!: Welcome. Have a happy.