Hello Tom Plunket,
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:46:19 -0800 GMT your local time,
which was Sunday, March 12, 2000, 9:46:19 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Tom Plunket wrote:
> Lief said:
LG>> I'm not a big programmer, so I'm not going to pretend that I
LG>> understand exactly what happens, but most-- if not almost all --
LG>> applications you install have their primary executable compressed.
> I don't know how true that is, but I do know that it's a common
> first-pass executable protection for piracy. That is, it's a lot
> harder to patch instructions into an executable when the instructions
> aren't really there. Compression of executables has a number of
> benefits, the least of which (these days) has to do with conserving
> disk space.
Except that loader programs exist which will load a program, which will
unpack, after which the loader scans and can patch the unpacked program.
A good cracker will laugh about the protection as it just makes very
little difference.
> That said, I've got a 100% reproducable system lock on my computers
> with TB!. Start TB! and Artifact from http://www.samugames.com/ (it's
> free, don't fret) at the same time (adjacent buttons on the
> quick-launch bar, or perhaps both having Ctrl-Alt launch shortcuts),
> and it'll lock my machines up hard at the same time. The developer of
> Artifact is a friend of mine, I reported it to him, and he just said
> "don't do that" so I don't; it sounds like a lot of different
> Delphi-based programs have this trouble if they try to simultaneously
> start.
As I managed to hang the Bat with another button in the Bat maybe its
a bug in the BAT or Delphi.
Question of interest here, I seem to remember that they changed
versionof Delphi used. Did this bug appear since that time???
> -tom!
Best regards,
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