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

[Robert Shearman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-devel-admin at winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel-admin at winehq.org]On
> Behalf Of Raphaël Junqueira
> Sent: 10 November 2003 08:05
> To: Lionel Ulmer; Marcus Meissner
> Cc: Alexandre Julliard; Wine Devel
> Subject: Re: copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on
> WINE?
>
> Well it's not really easy as the NT_HEADER only declare:
>  Characteristics:              0306
>     EXECUTABLE_IMAGE
>     LINE_NUMS_STRIPPED
>     32BIT_MACHINE
>     DEBUG_STRIPPED
>
> So we can only use the file extension (and maybe the imported
> libs, .sys files
> using kernel libs) to use the good "dll-entry" between .sys and
> .exe files :(
>
> I don't think Alexandre will love the hack to support this :)

I think IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER::Subsystem will be what we're looking for.

BTW, I have got as far with loading secdrv.sys as crashing on unimplemented
IoCreateDevice. I believe the Io* functions will be the biggest problems.

Rob