As of this morning, Crimson Skies still doesn't work with SafeDis(c) enabled (and I would swear it was spelled USA style with a "K" as SafeDisk). I tried it with nothing running in Win98 other than Explorer and Systray. Same old, same old. Nothing other than CLOKSPL.EXE (whatever that amounts to) runs.
The splash screen starts loading but then everything stalls (seems like when SafeDisk tries to run). I have aTDK VeloCD 32/10/40, CD-RW that isn't on Atari's list of "usual suspect" CD drives. Comparing my PC to the game's minimum requirements, I have nearly five times the processor speed, eight times the total RAM, eight times the video graphics RAM, ten times faster CD speed, etc.
I'll edit this with my results after I try making my own nocd. (First test after that was without clearing away any running programs, not even DUN, Mozilla, NAV, etc. And it looked like it was doing OK; at least at first. I left it on the starting menu a few minutes to refresh myself on the joystick's workings, and lost the mouse pointer. The Task Manager reported that Crimson Skies was "not responding", and it didn't accept being forcibly shut down very well, either.)
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The current Gamefix URL for UnsafeDis(?) is:
http://gf.wiretarget.com
Kiwi
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