COTA: Digital Download?

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (More info?)

Giftzwerg <giftzwerg999@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1d3c6f13f00cf1b698a454@news-central.giganews.com:

> Will COTA be available for download, or are we stuck with waiting for a
> jolly copy-protected CD?

Download - and afaik no Matrixgames are copy-protected.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

--
"Ceterum censeo Belgicam delendam."
(Cato, 'Pro Gerolphe')

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (More info?)

The latest patch for Korsun Pocket removes the CD check routines I
believe.

Cheers Chris


Giftzwerg <giftzwerg999@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1d3c9d9a8cefbb1198a459@news-central.giganews.com:

> In article <Xns9690D102ACBE2eddysterckxhotmailco@67.98.68.47>,
> eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...
>
>> > Will COTA be available for download, or are we stuck with waiting
>> > for a jolly copy-protected CD?
>>
>> Download -
>
> Yippeee!
>
>> and afaik no Matrixgames are copy-protected.
>
> Oh, yeah, they are. Not very well, but some of them are protected.
> HTTR and KORSUN POCKET are just two examples.
>

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (More info?)

In article <Xns96914E86CB64Bemail@203.16.214.244>, Chris Merchant
<email> says...

> The latest patch for Korsun Pocket removes the CD check routines I
> believe.

But the original disk is still copy-protected. Same with HTTR.

It's nice that we no longer need to schlep the disk around to play, but
you still need a (minimalist) cracking program to strip off the
(Safedisc?) protection and backup the original disk.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"It's hard not to be moved by the sight of Londoners calmly going about
their business as usual in the face of terrorism. But, if the governing
class goes about business as usual, that's not a stiff upper lip but a
death wish."
- Mark Steyn

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (More info?)

I am not sure why you would need to backup the original disk at all,
considering that the latest patch effectively turns the original disk
into a backup disk.

Cheers Chris

Giftzwerg <giftzwerg999@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1d3cd887b2f0752098a45b@news-central.giganews.com:

> In article <Xns96914E86CB64Bemail@203.16.214.244>, Chris Merchant
> <email> says...
>
>> The latest patch for Korsun Pocket removes the CD check routines I
>> believe.
>
> But the original disk is still copy-protected. Same with HTTR.
>
> It's nice that we no longer need to schlep the disk around to play, but
> you still need a (minimalist) cracking program to strip off the
> (Safedisc?) protection and backup the original disk.
>

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (More info?)

Giftzwerg schreef:
> In article <Xns9690D102ACBE2eddysterckxhotmailco@67.98.68.47>,
> eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...
>
> > > Will COTA be available for download, or are we stuck with waiting for a
> > > jolly copy-protected CD?
> >
> > Download -
>
> Yippeee!
>
> > and afaik no Matrixgames are copy-protected.
>
> Oh, yeah, they are. Not very well, but some of them are protected.
> HTTR and KORSUN POCKET are just two examples.

Oops - my bad - with the latest patch for both games you don't need the
original cd anymore, but you're correct in saying that the original cd
is copy-protected ... sort of ...

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx