From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 15:32:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADAA37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311AE43F3F for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003040722322700100di64re>; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:32:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA64342; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Nathan Stratton Treadway In-Reply-To: <20030407222442.GA18087@ontko.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:32:30 -0000 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/ >