I accidentally remembered something from my past, and...

I accidentally remembered something from my past, and I wonder how many of you have had to deal with the, uhm, "problems" I used to deal with.

Without searching, do you know what amtlib.framework is?

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Poll

I know, and I've touched it before

14.3%

I know, but I didn't do anything with it

I don't know about it

85.7%

14 people voted.
Voting ended 20 October at 11:05.

Like 17 October at 11:05 | Open on fosstodon.org

2 comments

Nikita

I wonder where the people replying “I know” are coming from, and whether the results would’ve been different had I said “amtlib.dll” 😏

But yeah, for me, amtlib.framework was this magical file that would make the totally legally acquired (trial) copy of Adobe Creative Cloud work as if it had no connection to the internet. It could not check its licence and would not complain about it. Making the “totally legally acquired” statement a bit dubious :D

20 October at 11:25 | Open on fosstodon.org

Nikita

IDK how this worked on Windows, but on macOS, it was the only thing one would need to do to make Adobe CC work. Get an archive from shady torrenting websites, unzip, copy-and-replace, done. No keygens required. Tracking down the correct version was complicated (until Adobe Zii emerged), but being 15 and not having hundreds of dollars to make silly YouTube videos was more complicated 😉

20 October at 11:28 | Open on fosstodon.org