Author: F. Huber
Date: 07:01:24 03/09/04
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On March 09, 2004 at 04:22:23, Peter Skinner wrote: >On March 09, 2004 at 03:31:52, F. Huber wrote: > >>>Hi Dave, >>> >>>As far as I can see the installer is the only protection. >>> >>>I had to re-install my Windows today and I had all the files on a separate >>>partition, and they seem to play just fine in Winboard and Arena. >>> >>>Peter >> >>That´s not correct, Peter! >> >>Both, the installer AND the engine have protection procedures, >>which _should_ correspond to each other - >>but because they actually _don´t_ (e.g. for special characters in the >>computer name or user name), these update problems occured on some systems. >> >>Regards, >>Franz. > >Hi Franz, > >What I was speaking about is _after_ the update, there is no protection. If the >updater passes the copyprotection, and the new files are created the cd is no >longer needed. > >I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that way on my computer. > >Peter. Hello Peter, you´re right, that the CD is no longer needed - on THAT computer! The Ruffian engine checks, if it is running at the same computer as it has been installed, and THIS is the ´engine copy protection´ I was speaking of. (Try to copy ONLY the Ruffian engine to another system, and it will NOT run!) Sorry, but I can´t give more details, because ... (I think, it´s clear ´why´ ;-) Regards, Franz.
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