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Kafka BC · 09-24-10, 06:57 PM

Just been reading through this thread and all I can say is By Gosh, this is absolutely great work. A big thumbs up to you h.sie.

I only wish I could try it, the UBI endorsed Starforce crack is the reason I finally installed the game after it sat on my shelf for four years, but I am not about to go out and buy a Starforce free one, even if I could find it.

I agree a bit with Verte about the legalistic paranoia.

As an example: the Master of Orion 3 executable was so riddled with gameplay bugs that someone named Bhruic (a god in many peoples eyes) made a patcher program and a large number of small patches over the years to fix nearly all of them. Someone else named Gerra made a number of various enhancement patches for the executable.

All of these patches work on both the stock and No-CD cracked executables - which was fortunate, since applying the final "official" patch to the game would sometimes cause it to not recognize the game CD, thus forcing people to use a cracked version.

Various versions of patched executables are distributed with the four flavors of "Unofficial Patches" - Vanilla, Strawberry, Tropical, and Chocolate - on the Atari forums with nary a peep from Atari.

So I think you have a little wiggle room.

Kafka BC

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Kafka BC Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 197 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	Just been reading through this thread and all I can say is By Gosh, this is absolutely great work. A big thumbs up to you h.sie. I only wish I could try it, the UBI endorsed Starforce crack is the reason I finally installed the game after it sat on my shelf for four years, but I am not about to go out and buy a Starforce free one, even if I could find it. I agree a bit with Verte about the legalistic paranoia. As an example: the Master of Orion 3 executable was so riddled with gameplay bugs that someone named Bhruic (a god in many peoples eyes) made a patcher program and a large number of small patches over the years to fix nearly all of them. Someone else named Gerra made a number of various enhancement patches for the executable. All of these patches work on both the stock and No-CD cracked executables - which was fortunate, since applying the final "official" patch to the game would sometimes cause it to not recognize the game CD, thus forcing people to use a cracked version. Various versions of patched executables are distributed with the four flavors of "Unofficial Patches" - Vanilla, Strawberry, Tropical, and Chocolate - on the Atari forums with nary a peep from Atari. So I think you have a little wiggle room. Kafka BC __________________ Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. - Stan Rogers (1949-1983) Last edited by Kafka BC; 09-24-10 at 07:08 PM.