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wodin · 10-20-2015, 09:28 PM

Yes, perhaps WinXP was before they crippled the games with version checking code. At any rate, I don't have XP. The earliest version I have is Win7, and I like that version of SOL better anyway.

I'm reminded of ye olden days when Lotus 123 was "copy protected" with code to check the floppy drive for a licensed copy. A quick hack with a hex editor at a certain location in the file bypassed that code and allowed it to run without the floppy disk.

10-20-2015, 09:28 PM	#1906
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	Yes, perhaps WinXP was before they crippled the games with version checking code. At any rate, I don't have XP. The earliest version I have is Win7, and I like that version of SOL better anyway. I'm reminded of ye olden days when Lotus 123 was "copy protected" with code to check the floppy drive for a licensed copy. A quick hack with a hex editor at a certain location in the file bypassed that code and allowed it to run without the floppy disk.