Welcome to Puzzle1 - "In The Beginning" by Cronos.
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It is a program that runs under Win32 - WinME tested, should be ok under Win95/98. Not sure about NT/2000. It was written in Borland C++ and asm. The executable is 4Kb.

Here are the tasks:

1. Run the program and you will be presented with a message telling you if you solved it or did not solve it. Task1 is to make the program say "Solved, <your nick>" without modifying the executable either on disk or in memory.

2. Task2 is to write a program that will solve the puzzle for any nick.

The first person to complete both tasks with a short essay and sourcecode for task2 will appear as the solver on the puzzle page.

Date:27/11/00.

