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Playing Korsun on Laptop w/o CD? - 9/29/2003 2:58:01 AM

RealChuckB

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Hi,

I bought Korsun when it came out and I would really like to play it, but my problem is, that I can only use my Laptop for playing it and it only has an external CD-Rom Drive. :(

Since I will not carry around this thing only to play Korsun, I still have not tried the game. It is my understanding, that Korsun needs to have the CD in the drive all the time to play it and that the CD is copy-protected, so it is not possible to use a Virtual-CD-Rom Software, is this correct?

I don't want to start a discussion about copy protections in general (since Matrixgames obviously has decided, that they think it is necessary and that we - their customers - simply have to live with it, although it hurts us sometimes more than the guys they want to fend off).

But I would really like to play the games I spent my $ 40 on and therefore ask, if someone has a solution? (And at the same time tell Matrixgames, that I will not - although I would like to - buy any of their programs, because I simply can not play them).

Thanks,

Chuck

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- 9/29/2003 4:57:36 AM

Ozie

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There are atleast two answers I can think of. There might be a No-CD exe file for KP available on some site where those can be found. I've used such files earlier with other games and they are usually ok. You just copy the new exe over the KP.exe and you dont need CD anymore.

The other one is making a CD image file of your KP CD and then making a virtual CD-ROM drive of it with software like daemon tools. That fools the programm thinking it has the CD when infact you have just copied image of it on you HD.

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- 10/1/2003 5:29:55 AM

Penguin

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I saw a program at Best Buy called "GameDrive" which purports to create virtual cd drives--up to 23 of them. Farstone.com is their site. Don't know if this will work for you or not. It was about $20, as I recall. I support copy protection, but I had to return the Shogun expansion pack a while back 'cause it wasn't compatible with the brand of cd drive I had at the time... Hope the state of the art has gotten better since then... But it is not fair that asian nations can close the technology gap by ripping off our software and stamping out cd's like pennies... (End of rant....)

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