@maxim Its a weird reason… I was a BBS operator, and because I spent all my pocket money on the hardware, I couldn’t pay for registered BBS tools… so there’s only 2 ways for me, crack them myself or write a new ones that does the same things (but imo better 😬) .. so a bunch of dos tools from mass archive management tool, to binary patch tool (primarily meant for save games where you can define hex and offsets in a text file to modify) but mainly BBS related ones. Much of the code bloat is coding the UI, because I had to build everything (including keyboard up/down presses from inputs) from scratch and draw the 80x24 interface to the video ram for speed.
Things that nowadays people will look at you really weird when you describe it 🤣