So the original files for older versions of Adobe software are pretty much Thanos-snapped out of existence, I still have an original install for CS6 saved from years ago - so if you need Photoshop or such here’s the hookup trial version.
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there is also instructions i wrote and the necessary files to “crack” =3
I’m late to the party here and have nothing to contribute materially but wanted to say how I used Photoshop CS6 a while ago and was really pleased with it overall. Nice thing was, as you alluded to, that Adobe made the installers and patches available right on their support site for their entire product line, no need to keep optical disc around. Seems like they’ve moved to the PC gaming distribution models now, with a launcher, account login, everything downloaded on-demand?
For those older Adobe softwares I remember the magic bullet being “amtlib.dll” file. The arrr matey version would cancel/remove its DRM function of verifying an Adobe account before allowing use of whichever program. There were torrents up on the Bay of just that file as I recall, so if you didn’t have a purchased key you could download the latest build direct from Adobe, install, then replace the one little file and you were set indefinitely.
Their DRM has evolved quite a lot since then and 2018/19 versions of their suite are a pain from what I’ve read. I long ago moved to desktop Linux and GIMP for my limited photo editing so I’m way out of the loop these days.
Yup. There you go. The amtlib.dll is the “magic bullet” in this one I posted here. You do need to make an account to install the software but beyond that, nothing else really. And well, actually the older CS files have long since been removed off Adobe’s website.