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Amiga phreaking software UA-dialer, hells hacker, others?
« on: May 26, 2016, 09:08:18 AM »
Should have never checked my email at 3am local time after getting up in the middle of the night to pee. I saw an advertisement about this

http://thetelephonemuseum.org/news/

which triggered some deep down psychological need for me to conduct a search in the middle of the night for software I used in the 1990's to blue box from my Amiga. :)

I'm based in the US, who by then had mostly converted to out-of-band signalling, but dialing 1-800 numbers that terminated overseas yielded a really rich playground where the stuff of early phrack articles still worked.

Does anyone have these old blue-box tone generator software programs? I'd take some wardialing software too -- if only to aid in the process of elimination/separation from the tone dialers.

I think one was UA-dialer, maybe one was hells hacker?

There was one that when executed would do absolutely nothing until you held two keys down to activate the "secret" GUI interface. I think the keys might have been L-AMIGA then R-AMIGA or something like that.

I'm pretty sure much of the software was PAL -- and targeted Europe, maybe Germany?

If it's not obvious, there's not much practical use for these today --- the availability of free long distance, or even really cheap international dialing, or even the need for a voice call at all have eliminated any practical need. Nevermind that I doubt there's any compatible technology that still exists that this could be used to take advantage of....

There is an interesting link here

http://www.projectmf.org/

I'd love to fire up these old tools. I spent a decent portion of my very impressionable high school years finding the right frequency/length combinations that would work given the country I was operating in.....nevermind discovering loops, bridges, strange 800's, codelines, VMB cities, 950s, 0700's, and all that crazy stuff.

Hopefully posting this quandary will allow me to go back to sleep. :)

Thanks!
 

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Re: Amiga phreaking software UA-dialer, hells hacker, others?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2016, 04:14:50 PM »
I love the idea that we all had these separate but shared experiences!

@MagicM: I also wrote a wardialer in AmigaBasic. That sucker got a ton of use and did multiple exchanges(multiple groups of 10,000 phone numbers) back in the day. Nothing excited me more than coming home/waking up to a whole large list of "hits." Everything was fine until the day the phone companies invented *67. Dialing this returned the call to the last phone number who called you. This was later expanded into Caller ID.

@buzz: thanks for the link to that thread! I downloaded a bunch of stuff. Not sure about whether any of them contain the exact app I'm looking for, but hopefully Unlimited Access Dialer (UADialer was the executable file name) is in one of the ADF/DMS's.

I remember accessing some crazy European BBS's back in the day. The sysops would somehow know....I remember one saying, "guess someone learned how to use a blue box" or something to that effect! :)