Blah Blah Blah Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Sorry to have to bring this up again, but I am hoping that Battlefront can clarify what copy protection they will be using. Simply put, I don't want to spend months anticipating what will be another classic Battlefront war game, only to find out that you are using Starforce as your copy protection, or something simular. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Well, we certainly wouldn't want to get your hopes up. Copy protection will consist of you phoning Madmatt every time you want to boot up; he'll give you a new password, if you're nice to him. *wink* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PseudoSimonds Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 The password is 'My hip hurts'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Hmm? That's your major concern about CMx2? Gosh... From a source of authority, I have been informed that the copy protection will be accomplished in the form of a code disc. Code is asked at random times during play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumrox Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I believe it will be a Centronix port based dongle whose software will come only on 5.25" floppy disks (10 disk set) that run only in DR-DOS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJK Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Originally posted by dumrox: I believe it will be a Centronix port based dongle whose software will come only on 5.25" floppy disks (10 disk set) that run only in DR-DOS. Hmmm, best go out to the garage and dig out the parts to that old 386-25 so that I can rip that 5.25" drive out and install it on this PC. Crap - don't have a drive bay available for it! :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastttt Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 having had Silent hunter 3 on my system(it has starforce) My burning functions where disabled and only by reinstalling the OS(Win XP)was I able to get it back customer service from both UBI and Starforce where both pretty much useless after a week of delete this reboot check that reboot delete this reboot they stopped any support I found out that this was common practice for them from others that had the same problem 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillweed Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 [insert wild guess based on no information here] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Originally posted by Sergei: Hmm? That's your major concern about CMx2? Gosh... From a source of authority, I have been informed that the copy protection will be accomplished in the form of a code disc. Code is asked at random times during play. I loved those code disks. They were really cool. I remember having a photocopied one for Curse of the Azure Bonds (kindly lent to me by a chum). Nowadays I'm sure some technical jayniuses could program up a code disk on the interweb in an evening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dschugaschwili Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 A 5,25" disk sounds nice. At least those still work after all those years. And my drive can double as a hammer if I need one. Dschugaschwili 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Originally posted by Soddball: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Sergei: Hmm? That's your major concern about CMx2? Gosh... From a source of authority, I have been informed that the copy protection will be accomplished in the form of a code disc. Code is asked at random times during play. I loved those code disks. They were really cool. I remember having a photocopied one for Curse of the Azure Bonds (kindly lent to me by a chum). Nowadays I'm sure some technical jayniuses could program up a code disk on the interweb in an evening. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Luckily Starforce is too expensive for BFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 That has to be the best thing I've ever heard about Starforce 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe had a code disc too as I recall; got so I had some of the answers memorized at one time. Did it? Mine didn't. But then I bought it in a collection along with Their Finest Hour and Battlehawks 1942, so maybe the protection was left out. My favourite codewheel was the one that came with The Secret of the Monkey Island 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I also found this in the mail, you sentimental boobie. Might make for an interesting security disc come to think of it... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Hee hee hee... that's what you get for giving out your mail address in an internet forum Was it censored by the Canucky Army Secret Service in any way? Did the little plastic bag filled with anthrax that I stapled on it get to you? :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hehehe, anyoine remember the awesome Space Opera game ELITE? I had that on my C-64 and the copy protection for that was a plastic lens aparatus that you had to put up to the screen so you could decipher a scrambled graphic that was dsiplayed on the TV screen. I still have my old Spectrum Holobyte F-16 Falcon codewheel too... Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 The antrhax missed me. If you want to see the SWOTL code disc, I can scan it for you. It was pictures of B-17 nose art IIRC, with names of girls in the little windows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirocco Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Originally posted by Madmatt: Hehehe, anyoine remember the awesome Space Opera game ELITE? I had that on my C-64 and the copy protection for that was a plastic lens aparatus that you had to put up to the screen so you could decipher a scrambled graphic that was dsiplayed on the TV screen.Lenslok? I hated that. Nine times out of ten I gave up and played something else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 And I think I might even still have the code wheel for Their Finest Hour, which I prefer to the wheel for Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe for purely sentimental reasons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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