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 safedisc support?
I think a user should be able to just install wine, insert their favorite cd, run the setup and start playing.
I bet that having a nice amount of games and progs that would work this way would increase the use of wine with a few hunderd percent. ( and in the end more people who will commit patches )
but we will never reach this because we do not have copyprotection support. so yes !! i do think this is importent.
note: i have no idea how much work it needed to clean this, but i do know that every new game out there is using safedisc 2.x
so finisching this patch will only get old games working. so unless we can use/modify this patch for 2.x support it is probably a waste of time.
but if we can....
Mark Hannessen