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 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.
I think DirectX and other components needed to actually run the game are far more important than copy protection support. Transgaming's winex has that support, and many subscribers still use no-cd cracks because they work better. Getting actual games to run should be the biggest priority. Copy protection support doesn't do much good when 90% of the games don't run anyway. It also takes considerable resources away from other tasks, and will get outdated by the time wine actually starts running the games.