Iprovements around conventional CD protections....

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Tue Jul 11 20:27:16 CDT 2006


Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 7:51:32 AM, Plamen Hristov wrote:
> This days I write a small toll ,that simulate some standart copy-protection
> methods common used in games.Here is the result:

> Inside wine with CD in drive:
> Proceed with drive e:

> Wine -with dir masked as CD.
> Proceed with drive e:
[results identical - skipped]

> Here the label and the serial number is incorect.Also the program can write to
> directory.To prevent this I made it read-only.DiskFree/DiskSize show the
> partition parameters.I think improving this will be very good idea.
>
> Also when no disk inserted in windows he returned  I/O error 21 .In the same
> case wine return partition properties and no label.
Ok so what is the problem here? Wine properly behaves when used with real
CD-ROM. And you get different results when you using HDD as the emulated
drive.

Vitaliy









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