Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst@ontko.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304071530150.64276-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030407222442.GA18087@ontko.com>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mark Santcroos wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Yeah mine ran the last few years as well, > > > > just not the new one.. > > > > > > > > stops immediatly with some error (I forget.. something descriptivelike: > > > > > > I don't know the program, but do you need a license or an activator for > > > it? (My question is: is it copy protection or something else?) > > > It could check for some things; cpuid, mac address, that sort of stuff. > > > > yes it has an activator and I thinkit is doing something like that. > > However it would be interesting what cpuid-type instruction vmware > > doesn't do, considering that win98 works and IT has > > similar activation. > > > > > > > > What was that windows debugger called? WinIce or something like that? > > > You could give it a try to run it in there to find out what it is doing. > > > > possibly but at present I have it running on > > the raw hardware and I'll just buy the competition next year. > > > I found this old thread about TurboTax and VMWare when researching this > problem for myself, and thought some other readers of this list might be > interested to know that I found this article on the VMWare site: > http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=901 > > Sure enough, turning acceleration off allows me to get past the > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library "Runtime error! ... abnormal > program termination" dialog box that I otherwise got when starting > TurboTax 2002. > > I haven't gone too far through the process, but it seems that I can turn > the acceleration back on as soon as the program is started, and it still > works fine. (So it does seem to be related to the Macromedia licensing > software that Inuit added this year :( ) > > (This is with VMWare 3.2.0 running on a Linux host.) thanks for that.. I finished my taxes using W98 on teh real hardware so I don't need it any more. :-) but We only have vmware2.x on FreeBSD (gotta fix that one day) and I don't remember seeing an 'acceleration' checkbox anywhere. (maybe I'l look again tonight when I go home). thanks for the pointer though.. Julian > > Nathan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nathan Stratton Treadway | nathanst@ontko.com | Mid-Atlantic region > Software consulting services | Ray Ontko & Co. | http://www.ontko.com/ >
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