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Safedisk cost I don't think is a major issue for T2- it's shareware and even a license ain't going to be that onerous.Originally posted by Redwolf
From what I know the biggest obstacle with bringing in new Norm Kroger changes is the Safedisk copy protection.
Norm Kroger cannot place patches on his own account because they wouldn't be encrypted. Take2 had to do the encryption which would take them resources to do. There might also be a heavy license payment to Safedisk involved for re-encoding a game's executable after such a long time.
It's a shame. I have seen quite a few references about unpublished work Norm Kroger has already done on TOAW and there's no chance we'll ever see it. (Never bothered him to find out details, though).
But Safedisk is going to be a problem if T2 try to bring a version of TOAW out for anything 'above' Windows ME since from Safedisk's own Web Site: ""SafeDisk" is intended to work on Windows 95/98/ME.". Not XP, 2K etc...
I also understand that compatibility issues aren't to do with Windows per se (TOAW works with all Windows versions)- it's rather that the version as 'wrapped' with Safedisk is causing the problems- i.e. Safedisk itself is the problem. And most problems seem to go away if you 'unwrap' it. The only problem I find remaining with Win2k and both ACOW/TOAWI unwrapped (I paid for both so don't see anything wrong in doing this) is the high memory requirements for the Scenario Editor and an inability to load/dump some scenarios.
So T2 either have to find a replacement for SafeDisk to bring another TOAW patch/upgrade to an 'updated' Windows market (Win 2K+) or they're going to have to distribute it 'unwrapped' or with some other copy protection scheme.
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