Re: OT Starforce

In article <1298d8j7d26pree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, coin^spam^spin@xxxxxxxxxxx
says...

And, just out of curiousity, once Mike had installed the game, wasn't
Starforce already on his machine? Applying the crack no-CD crack afterwards
would probably disable it, but unless it was physically removed or
uninstalled by the crack, wouldn't it still be stuck in there somewhere?

I have read about the procedure w.r.t. space rangers - you install the game.
Starforce, apparently is not installed at that point. Then you run the crack,
so starforce doesn't get installed when you run the game the first time.
That's how I understood it. I can't talk from experience because I did exactly
what Quaestor suggested: I voted with my dollar and decided not to purchase any
games that have starforce on them. It's not like there is a shortage of others
out there (hey, I have at least half a dozen games that I have not yet played
to death), and since I can manage to do without that Ferrari, I can manage to
do without Space Rangers II as well.

-Peter

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