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fr_public
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farbrausch / fr_public

fr_public

Farbrausch demo tools 2001-2011

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Farbrausch demo tools 2001-2011

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HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-04-15 11:24:30 UTC to 2026-07-29 17:19:55 UTC.

012342012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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nuxi·Jul 29, 2026
FR released the source code for their tools in 2012, some of the concepts are described in the repo, e.g.: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/blob/master/werkkzeu... A couple of additional links from my bookmarks: - The EXE packer : https://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/ - Some tech details in "The Farbrausch Way to make Demos" slides : https://llg.cubic.org/docs/farbrauschDemos/ - Various related videos (search for ryg/chaos/fiver2): https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/seminars/code/ - Overview of their tools + misc links: https://adrianboeing.blogspot.com/2012/04/farbraush-demo-too... - Some .kkrieger details: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
In User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
effekt·Jan 5, 2026
As for cracktros, probably not. I should spelunk through backups. However, the most technical and competitive people generally transitioned to the demoscene in the early 2000s and that scene is far more open. You can find a lot of groups/individuals publish a lot of esp. their older stuff now. Two off the top of my head: - https://github.com/ConspiracyHu (and they made a W32 port of Future Crew's Second Reality, which is public domain: https://github.com/mtuomi/SecondReality) - Farbrausch published their original demo tool source ages ago: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
In GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene
codetrotter·Mar 28, 2023
werkzeug3 source code https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/tree/master/werkkzeu... Source release announcement can be seen on an old copy of their main page https://web.archive.org/web/20210126032752/http://farbrausch... > Excerpt from the README: > This is it. Pretty much a history of Farbrausch tools 2001-2011. We've been meaning to release all this for ages, in various forms, and always ended up not doing it because "we'd just have to clean it up a bit first...". > No more. This is not cleaned up. This is the raw deal, some from old hard drives, some fresh from various SVN repositories. This is code written for a bunch of different versions of Visual Studio. Some of it is really tricky to compile, some really easy. There's some nice clean stuff there, other parts are just a complete mess. > All of this is released either under a BSD
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license or put in the public domain (stated per project). Not that you're likely to want to use most of this code, but if you want to, we see no reason to keep you. And they also point out: > There's still some stuff missing (most prominently Werkkzeug 4) but we'll add this in the near future. Here are some screenshots of werkzeug4 from some 2010 blogposts of theirs: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327151958/http://farbrausch... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053110/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053104/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053104/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053100/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053058/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra... You can see more pictures, and accompanying texts in the blog posts at https://web.archive.org/web/20140815050229/http://www.farbra... Tangentially, from their FAQ: > why does this website look so familiar? > we want to thank the pouet team for allowing us to rip their web design and graphics. > shaping our groups homepage in the style of pouet is surely confusing and a little bold, but we could not resist the temptation https://web.archive.org/web/20140815045911/http://www.farbra...
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