Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 04:49 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen: > EA Durbin wrote: > >> So the short story is that copy protection support is the > >> gating issue here, and it's a serious PITA. > > > > What specifically keeps most copy protection from working with wine? > > Why does it work in some applications, such as Star Wars Jedi Academy > > and not others? > > There are several types of copy protection. Those that use kernel > drivers do not work on Wine because ... Wine has no kernel to load those > drivers into. We will need at least ntoskrnl.exe implemented because > it's more of a "dll" then exe and all drivers import number of functions > from it. > > Of course we can only emulate "kernel" to some point. But even that > would be enough for drivers that only check for debugger presence and > nothing else. > As far as I know, the Flex copy protection scheme used by, for example, Photoshop and ZBrush also writes a key somewhere on the harddisk. Not on the file system, but somewhere in the unused space after the MBR IIRC. It should be quite hard to make this work I think?
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