alterate no-cd method - what to do with it?
 

hi,

i have written a little proggie that intercepts the data from cd calls and writes them to a file then later intercepts calls to the cd and responds with data from the file. it is a bit crude at the moment but does successfully work with the limited range of protected cds that i have. any thoughts on what to do with it? i want to put it into the public domain because having to have the cd in the drive is an absolute pain... obviously, the saved data file can be transferred to a second machine to allow both of them to run the application.. only works on xp machines at the mo because it uses very low level pragmas.

any thoughts?

sue

sounds interesting.

i would like to give it a go. I have Win2k and hope it'll work.

Would you please send me that programm? Mail address is "fileforums.2.sbauer@spamgourmet" :)

Sorry, it only works under xp because of the libraries that I have used. These library calls aren't present in 2k. These calls are, I would imagine, the precursor of the encrypted environment that windows will soon be - they give on-the-fly low level access to devices so that, for example, an encrypt-decrypt routine could be inserted easily into the data stream. There is a special version of NT (secure environment NT) that has something similar... I dont think a secure variant of 2k was produced but am willing to be corrected.

Sue

Umm...does the program get the data from a specific cd and store it or does it collect the data from general calls like GetDriveTypeA and use them on all cds?

I.e if you input UT2003, it will work for that game and no else?

Just curious if it's a generic tool or a "customizer"?;)

Sorry if I was unclear at some point, just wanted to know since this sounds really interesting