Help With SoftIce

I'm sure you all have seen this a dozen times but when I do a search on the forums for "SoftIce" a message comes back "nothing found" so I apologize if this is redundant. I am new to cracking and reverse engineering and have tried to do a lot of research and have read as many articles as I could find on the subject. Why my search isn't working now ........I don't know. Anyway here is my situation; I have installed SoftIce "lite" from the FTP server. I have set video to universal. SoftIce loads fine and seems to be functioning. I'm trying to crack a program and follow a procedure as outlined by "The Sandman". The program is "pooldemo.exe". The instructions say to save all vectors before loading program "vecs s". This command is unrecognized is the message I receive. If I run the program and open SI the whole screen is filled with blocks of color. At this point I'm not sure where to begin with this. Is there maybe a better tut to start with or can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
d

If I remember right, you are trying to follow +ORC's tutorial. Your problem is caused by the sice version - you need sice 2.6 or 2.8, those versions are for DOS. Those versions can be found on the net(try to look at Crackz's site), if you won't succeed, I can help you (I have them, along with some other tools).
Good luck,
least

Thanks least. I wondered if that might be the problem. I'm not used to running in DOS but maybe it would be a good lesson. Is there a good beginner tut to use the version of SI that I already have? I have seen so many tuts and they all seem to use a different version of SI. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
d

I'm affraid that with your current version of Sice you won't succeed, because if I remember right, +ORC uses features (like memory snaps) that is only in Sice for DOS v2.6 (?); If you don't want to run in DOS, consider trying VMWARE, it is virtual machine, where you can install any OS. I have one with DOS and both old versions of SICE installed and it seems to be usable.
On the other hand, when talking about newer Sice versions (lets say from 3.2), the commands aren't changing very much so it isn't big issue when you have other version.
Regards,
least

Thanks least. I appreciate the input. I will have a look at VMWARE and see if this works for me. On the other hand I would like also to try running in DOS. Can you tell me the beginnings of what I must do to load the programs or point me to a tut on DOS and how to load and run programs?

Again many thanks,
d

Well,
in VMWARE you can run dos, it is just like other PC;
Concerning the dos, I can write you some basic commands, but tomorow I'll put here help for MSDOS.

DIR lists files and directories
CD changes directory
A: example of change of the current disk to A: (diskette)
COPY copies file
MD make directory
DEL deletes file
RD remove directory

When you need help on certain command just type it with " /?" it will print help.
These are the basic, but for more user friendly environment try to look for some volkov commander or old norton commander
Hope it helps,
least