Cheat Engine

Zuhh00 · Guest

Hello!

I was doing some research about Cheat Engine but their's one info that I can't find: the initial release date.

I've find some mention of Cheat Engine 3.x that dates back to 2003 but does anyone know the actual first public release date of CE?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:30 am Post subject:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030830024745/http://www.syndiv.com:80/ce

June 24 2001 for 2.2

and according to the timestamps in http://cheatengine.org/download/Cheatengine1.3.RAR (ce 1.3 sourcecode) this was released arround June 28 2000

Zuhh00 · Guest

Straight from the mouth of the creator, thank you so much!

I remember using CE since so long ago that I wasn't even sure whether it was "10ish years ago" or "20ish years ago", sounds more like 20ish years ago then!

Is there anyway to donate to you or CE in general? It's about time I give back for all these years I've used your software. Smile

Zuhh00 · Guest

While I am at it, do YOU (Dark Byte) remember when you first released CE? I'm guessing there was other public version of CE before 1.3 but since there don't seem to be any public record about it, I'd be happy to know what you think was the year when you first made CE available.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:35 am Post subject:

i started in 2000

and you can donate using PayPal (check the about screen in ce) or bitcoin (address is posted on the main website under support)

ewilliams2248 · Guest

If you look into the archive file (.rar) you can see that the oldest file in there is from may 6th of 2000 at exactly 2:53pm so that is your answer.

Guest

ewilliams2248 If you look into the archive file (.rar) you can see that the oldest file in there is from may 6th of 2000 at exactly 2:53pm so that is your answer.

Wait... I may have found the very first source code of CE the website that Dark Byte posted scroll all the way down and click the link that says Source code of last release. It is the very first version of CE to exist.

Edit: You can thank me later

Guest

ewilliams2248 If you look into the archive file (.rar) you can see that the oldest file in there is from may 6th of 2000 at exactly 2:53pm so that is your answer.

Wait... I may have found the very first source code of CE, the website that Dark Byte posted scroll all the way down and click the link that says Source code of last release. It is the very first version of CE to exist.

Edit: You can thank me later

ewilliams2248 · Guest

so January 23rd of 1996 at 1:36pm is the oldest file in the archive (rar) file

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:25 am Post subject:

handles.pas is a third party sourcecode I didn't touch. It's responsible for the first trainer maker form editing

and firefight.gh is a cheat table for the "gamehack" tool. it's an example of CE supporting to load these kind of tables

ewilliams2248 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 24 Nov 2022 Posts: 1

then who made the rar file?

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:43 pm Post subject:

I did. The date stored inside rar describes the last modified filedate field in the file descriptor. Not when the .rar got created

Besides, there's dates of 2003 in there as well. If you went by the assumption that the filedate updates when the rar is created, then that would already show it's not correct

ewilliams2248 · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 24 Nov 2022 Posts: 1

I wasn't going by when the rar was created

edit: this post can be done now...