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 the drive. > > > > totaly agree. > > but in order to do that, we need copyprotection ( like wineX or > > windows ) but doing that open source is NOT legal. even in my country. > > There is a tool called daemon-tools, which runs as a service on Windows. > It emulates several different common copy protections, so that you can run > you backups (and whatever). > > Has anyone tried how well it works under Wine, and if it could be used as > a solution for running copy protected games under Wine ? > > It can be found at: > http://www.daemon-tools.com/daemon_tools.htm > > Sam, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daemon Tools can't work under Wine, because it uses a device driver. Also the problem here seems to be that it isn't possible to do such a thing as Daemon Tools, because it is forbidden with opensource.