Re:Winamp Legacy player source code
by bri3d on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @01:00PM
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This is a weird Easter Egg that's been compiled into real, genuine, uncracked Winamp release builds for a very long time.
The actual compiled binary ends up with the same text you see linked there scrambled using XOR (you can see that on the other side of the #if 0) to avoid it appearing in the binary's strings verbatim.
The actual compiled binary ends up with the same text you see linked there scrambled using XOR (you can see that on the other side of the #if 0) to avoid it appearing in the binary's strings verbatim.
It's unfortunately hard to find stuff from the Old Internet anymore (I recall this being discussed at length on the original Winamp forums), but there are some references to it here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/366648-winamp-51/page/2/#...
There's a screenshot of the exact text from the source here:
https://eeggs.com/items/45636.html
And someone getting really confused about it on Reddit here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/winamp/comments/caukeo/installed_wi...