[bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?

[Killing]

Mount it remotely from a file server. then you only need 1 copy.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Klemen Gersak (515TEM Compaq)" <klemen at 515tem.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: 16 May 2003 14:09
Subject: Re: Re: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?


yes

I thought of Deamon and Alcohol but this would be my final resort... Even
now the Ghost disk image I have is 11Megs large and it takes 1 hr to load it
..  so I'd rather notput another 1Giga of data in the ghost image... but I
guess I will have to...

:(


----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Adams" <travis_adams at hotmail.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?


> he could look into legal way to do this through a program called Alcohol
> 120% or Daemen Tools both of these are virtual CD rom emulators. I've run
my
> battlefield from that program ever since i found out it existed.
>
> >From: Reinder Gerritsen <reinder at strikerz.net>
> >Reply-To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> >To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> >Subject: Re: Re: [bf1942] Getting a little antsy, new release?
> >Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:23:40 +0200 (CEST)
> >
> >Nah, think for him it works different:
> >
> >See it as this: He has some kinda Internet Cafe alike thingy running
> >overthere with several PC's all containing several games he offers in his
> >shop. All these PC's are secured from installing of non authorised
> >software by removing Floppy and CD Drives.
> >
> >e.g. HalfLife, you can run an unpatched licenced internet game without
> >having a CDRom in your PC.
> >
> >For battlefield, you require a CD mounted to get the client running so
jou
> >can logon to an internet server, unless you use a no-CD patch also used
> >for copied CD's. Aparently the latest no-CD fix, allthough it does not
> >any longer require a valid CD in the system DOES require a physical drive
> >in the system to work.
> >
> >
> >Now to the question at hand: I don't think Andreas would be happy to
> >assyst in a illegal patch to his game. since this "bug" actually is 3rd
> >party code. However, since this situation is a legal - though somewhat
> >unusual - situation, might I suggest another solution for your problem?
> >
> >DaemonTools emulates CD-drives by mounting ISO files to a virtual drive.
> >Simply putting an ISO9660 image copy of the original CD on your network
> >server and then mounting this CD on the different PC's would solve your
> >problem of not having a physical drive in your system. (can be mounted
> >over the network, so 1 iso.image would be sufficient to serve for all
> >your client PC's.)
> >
> >http://www.daemon-tools.com
> >(though URL is currently not working with me this is where it used to
be.)
> >
> >goodluck
> >Fox.
> >
> >On Fri, 16 May 2003 rookiewan at cistron.nl wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > backup... ver 1.2 with a NoCD patch by iMSDOX worked perfectly, but
> >ver. 1.3
> > > > and 1.31 NoCD patch by FDX don't if the PC doesn't phisically
contain
> >a
> > > > CDROM. The bf1942.exe just doesn't start anything - no Alert, no
> >error, no
> > > > Game, nothing... If I built in the CD-unit BF started just fine.
> > > >
> > > > Any bright ideas?
> > >
> > > Basically, from what I read, you're running the server from a client
> >install. Get the dedicated server for windows, it doesnt need the CD.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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