copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on WINE?

[Roderick Colenbrander]

It might be possible to reverse engineer the current safedisc 1 and 2
protections and include the code in wine. The problem is that the new version (a
snapshot of it was used at the time in flashpoint) is less nice. Nowadays when
you for example use a crack the game works or doesn't work. The new safedisc
is really nasty. When you apply a crack (or perhaps our upcoming safedisc
driver) the game starts up no matter if the crack is really correct or not.
During the game you will know if the crack was correct or not. When you play
using an incorrect crack the game will slowly become unplayable. For example the
keys to finish the level will disappear or you can't aim anymore..

Perhaps the "solution" is to write a wrapper to load secdrv.sys and friends.
Perhaps in a way like that ntfs emulation project works (it uses a reactos
kernel) or perhaps using an emulator like qemu.

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