Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware and turbotax Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301131538040.72092-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030113222653.GM628@laptop.6bone.nl>
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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 descriptive like: > > 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. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre > http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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