Re: Games compatibility list [20030607]

2003-06-08 Thread Carlos Lozano
Hello, - Did you try to make some games work with a patch to avoid some checks, since you have the game license ? The only protected game what was able to install is Railroad tycoon II, and it worked correctly using a patch. (it is a official patch what disable the protection because they had

Re: Games compatibility list [20030607]

2003-06-08 Thread Carlos Lozano
Hello, Two of the titles on the list are reported to work now (atleast by Raphael and the other d3d8 guys). It are GTA3 and MaxPayne. The installers can be tricky to get working sometimes... I did the tests with no tricks ;) The only thing what modified was Managed in config file.

Re: Games compatibility list [20030607]

2003-06-07 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi Carlos, Great work. - Did you try to make some games work with a patch to avoid some checks, since you have the game license ? - Did you try to copy the installed directory (+registrry entries), since before that it would be an installer compatibility list ? --- Lozano, Carlos A. [EMAIL

Re: Games compatibility list [20030607]

2003-06-07 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
Hi, Two of the titles on the list are reported to work now (atleast by Raphael and the other d3d8 guys). It are GTA3 and MaxPayne. The installers can be tricky to get working sometimes... Regards, Roderick On Saturday 07 June 2003 15:29, Lozano, Carlos A. wrote: Hello, It is a little games

Re: Games Swat 3d

2003-01-25 Thread Raphaël Junqueira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 22 Janvier 2003 23:39, Greg Turner a écrit : can you report the current working state of the game under wine Dx after ? As d3d8 not support multi-texturing yet, i think you should have some graphics problems OK, I gave this a

Re: Games Swat 3d

2003-01-25 Thread Lionel Ulmer
Presumably, added to the list of programs that work ;) Well, as the funds / time of the D3D developpers is limited, we do not have all the existing D3D game ever done :-) This is where open source should work (ie a lot of applications testers / bug reporters) but for the moment, we do not have

Re: Games Swat 3d

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Turner
I am wondering if Swat3d will be added to the list anytime soon for use with wine ?? what do you mean by added to the list ? Presumably, added to the list of programs that work ;) It's what i have thought first, but will be added ... for use ... sound like will be added to the priority

Re: Games Swat 3d

2003-01-20 Thread Greg Turner
On Monday 20 January 2003 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message d'origine De: Ronald James [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sujet: Games Swat 3d Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:39:52 +0200 I am wondering if Swat3d will be added to the list anytime soon for use with wine ??

Re: Re: Games Swat 3d

2003-01-20 Thread fenix
De: Greg Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sujet: Re: Games Swat 3d Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:48:35 -0600 Copie à: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 20 January 2003 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message d'origine De: Ronald James [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Games

2002-11-06 Thread Carlos Lozano
Laurent's copy protection patch, while impressive, does have a pretty serious copyright-related issue, which has nothing to do with the DMCA. The problem is that his SafeDisc driver is - at least in parts - a direct translation of a dissassembly. Such translation means that technically

Re: games

2002-11-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Saturday 02 November 2002 11:46, Mark Hannessen wrote: Can we post *how* to break the copy protection? I don't think so. we can. we could include the cracks needed to run the game on the site. it is legal use a crack if you own the game. as long as we don't forget the disclamer: don't

Re: Games

2002-11-04 Thread Greg Turner
On Sunday 03 November 2002 10:50 pm, Gavriel State wrote: Mark Hannessen wrote: When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA Are you sure about the above statements? Have you checked that, or

Re: Games

2002-11-04 Thread Mark Hannessen
greg turner wrote: hmm that's too bad. couldn't this problem be eliminated by creating a safedisc spec from this patch, and doing a dirty-room/clean-room number on it, by implementing that spec from scratch? Dunno if it's worth the effort... are a lot of people really in need of

Re: Games

2002-11-04 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Monday 04 November 2002 09:36 am, Mark Hannessen wrote: greg turner wrote: hmm that's too bad. couldn't this problem be eliminated by creating a safedisc spec from this patch, and doing a dirty-room/clean-room number on it, by implementing that spec from scratch? Dunno if it's

Re: Games - An old new Idea

2002-11-04 Thread Dustin Navea
greg turner wrote: hmm that's too bad. couldn't this problem be eliminated by creating a safedisc spec from this patch, and doing a dirty-room/clean-room number on it, by implementing that spec from scratch? Dunno if it's worth the effort... are a lot of people really in need of

Re: Games - An old new Idea

2002-11-04 Thread Lionel Ulmer
Stupid question that will probably be ripped to shreds but what about if we release the binaries with copy protection support but not put it in CVS (kinda like transgaming, except that users dont have to pay for the binaries)? It's illegal according to the LGPL as far as I know (except, of

Re: Games - An old new Idea

2002-11-04 Thread Dustin Navea
--- Lionel Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question that will probably be ripped to shreds but what about if we release the binaries with copy protection support but not put it in CVS (kinda like transgaming, except that users dont have to pay for the binaries)? It's illegal

Re: Games - An old new Idea

2002-11-04 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Monday 04 November 2002 04:31 pm, Dustin Navea wrote: --- Lionel Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question that will probably be ripped to shreds but what about if we release the binaries with copy protection support but not put it in CVS (kinda like transgaming, except

RE: games

2002-11-03 Thread Kye Lewis
Surely there is no reason that wine actually has to do these checks anyway - would it not be simply possible to say that the checks passed regardless? And even if we do decide to implement them, (I don't know the legal position on this - I'm not a lawyer or anything), I don't see why implementing

Re: Games

2002-11-03 Thread Mark Hannessen
here we are. Zsolt about Safedisc 1.x When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA Are you sure about the above statements? Have you checked that, or it is just your opinion? Carlos words

Re: Games

2002-11-03 Thread Zsolt Rizsanyi
On Sunday 03 November 2002 15:53, Mark Hannessen wrote: here we are. Zsolt about Safedisc 1.x When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA Are you sure about the above statements? Have you

Re: Games

2002-11-03 Thread Gavriel State
Mark Hannessen wrote: When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA Are you sure about the above statements? Have you checked that, or it is just your opinion? Carlos words regarding copy protection:

Re: Games

2002-11-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gavriel State wrote: Mark Hannessen wrote: When the patch was published, there was a discussion, and the conclusion was that the code is very probably legal, and is not against DMCA Are you sure about the above statements? Have you checked that, or it is just your opinion? Carlos words

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Mark Hannessen
Can we post *how* to break the copy protection? I don't think so. we can. we could include the cracks needed to run the game on the site. it is legal use a crack if you own the game. as long as we don't forget the disclamer: don't download this crack unless you own this game legal if we can not

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Greg Turner
On Saturday 02 November 2002 03:46 am, Mark Hannessen wrote: Can we post *how* to break the copy protection? I don't think so. we can. we could include the cracks needed to run the game on the site. it is legal use a crack if you own the game. as long as we don't forget the disclamer: don't

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Z_God
Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 22:48, schreef Dimitrie O. Paun: On November 1, 2002 05:36 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: copy protection, nothing more the problem is that there are license issues with copy protection that prevent us from inplenting it at all. but the game itself runs perfect.

Re: games-------- I must be smoking CRACK !!!

2002-11-02 Thread Thomas Wickline
Z_God wrote: Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 22:48, schreef Dimitrie O. Paun: On November 1, 2002 05:36 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: copy protection, nothing more the problem is that there are license issues with copy protection that prevent us from inplenting it at all. but the game itself runs

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mark Hannessen wrote: On Friday 01 November 2002 21:29, you wrote: On November 1, 2002 01:07 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: most games i own install and run ferfectly, but will not give you out the box experience because wine lacks good copy protection code. Diablo II is a good example Can't

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mark Hannessen wrote: Game-wise: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Fallout Neverwinter Nights Grand Prix Legends Discworld II Did you??? Displays three logos, shows the copyright screen (with death on a horse), starts playing the music and goes into a loop. What did you do to get it

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Mark Hannessen
I beg to differ. We do NOT need to crack these games, nor should we aspire to it. What we need is a method for the original game's code to verify that a legally CD is indeed in the drive. totaly agree. but in order to do that, we need copyprotection ( like wineX or windows ) but doing that

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Sam
On Saturday 02 November 2002 03:49 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: I beg to differ. We do NOT need to crack these games, nor should we aspire to it. What we need is a method for the original game's code to verify that a legally CD is indeed in the drive. totaly agree. but in order to do that,

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Z_God
Op zaterdag 2 november 2002 22:56, schreef Sam: On Saturday 02 November 2002 03:49 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: I beg to differ. We do NOT need to crack these games, nor should we aspire to it. What we need is a method for the original game's code to verify that a legally CD is indeed in

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Zsolt Rizsanyi
On Saturday 02 November 2002 21:49, Mark Hannessen wrote: I beg to differ. We do NOT need to crack these games, nor should we aspire to it. What we need is a method for the original game's code to verify that a legally CD is indeed in the drive. totaly agree. but in order to do that, we

Re: games

2002-11-02 Thread Carlos Lozano
El sáb, 02 de nov de 2002, a las 21:49, Mark Hannessen escribio: I beg to differ. We do NOT need to crack these games, nor should we aspire to it. What we need is a method for the original game's code to verify that a legally CD is indeed in the drive. totaly agree. but in order to do

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Dustin Navea
--- Mark Hannessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Game-wise: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Fallout Neverwinter Nights Grand Prix Legends Discworld II Wing Command 4 ( use the win95 exe instead of the dos exe ) most games i own install and run ferfectly, but will not give you out the box

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Dustin Navea wrote: [...] Just a thought, why not create a bug in bugzilla where people can post which apps/games/utils work nearly (if not) perfect instead of having ten million emails. 1 bug for apps, 1 for games, and 1 for utils. Because the Applications Database is the

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On November 1, 2002 01:07 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: most games i own install and run ferfectly, but will not give you out the box experience because wine lacks good copy protection code. Diablo II is a good example Can't we be a little bit more flexible and add these games to the list as

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Mark Hannessen
On Friday 01 November 2002 21:29, you wrote: On November 1, 2002 01:07 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: most games i own install and run ferfectly, but will not give you out the box experience because wine lacks good copy protection code. Diablo II is a good example Can't we be a little bit

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On November 1, 2002 05:36 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: copy protection, nothing more the problem is that there are license issues with copy protection that prevent us from inplenting it at all. but the game itself runs perfect. every function in Diablo II is inplented and working very very

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Z_God
Op vrijdag 1 november 2002 21:29, schreef Dimitrie O. Paun: On November 1, 2002 01:07 pm, Mark Hannessen wrote: most games i own install and run ferfectly, but will not give you out the box experience because wine lacks good copy protection code. Diablo II is a good example Can't we be

Re: games

2002-11-01 Thread Thomas Wickline
Francois Gouget wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Dustin Navea wrote: [...] Just a thought, why not create a bug in bugzilla where people can post which apps/games/utils work nearly (if not) perfect instead of having ten million emails. 1 bug for apps, 1 for games, and 1 for utils. Because the