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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by nortons:

I am using CM-Beyond Overlord on a Mac. Can the CD be loaded onto the HD so I don't need the CD drive? Thanks for your help.

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You can use Disk Copy to make an image of the CD. I've been able to get the game to run using the mounted disk image. It has to be a read-only disk image.

Very handy for my laptop when I want to bring the game with me when I travel, and don't want to lug the CD along!

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Toad

Ontario, Canada

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rob/1:

Yes you can do that Toad but do you have a P.C or a Mac?I don't know if you can do that on a Mac and I have one! smile.gif

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Yes, I'm talking about Apple's Disk Copy for the Mac.

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This actually works?

I was under the assumption that CM looked for the CD copy for copy-protections reasons. This sounds like an easy way to defeat it, too easy. I thought that there was a hard encoding on the CD, like predetermined bad sectors, that could not be copied, and to defeat it, the checking code would have to be bypassed.

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yes this works. i've been playing that way too - frees up the cd drive and it's way more convenient to mount an image than stick in a cd

makes piracy too easy, though, so i guess this will go the way of a pdf manual sooner or later <sigh>

fwiw, i did buy it. none of my friends knew of it let alone had it. besides, it's just too good, after my first game on the demo i -had- to buy it just to say thanks with my credit card smile.gif

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Yep, it works. I agree, the game is great. I purchased it after playing the demo for an afternoon. Big thanks to Toad and the rest for the help! I'm ticked though that a Tiger disappeared when I attacked it, then reappeared when my guy was facing the other way. Arrgh!

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