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		jtl999 on Jan 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wine 4.0 released > Many CD-ROM games didn't bother with copy protection (after all, who would copy a whole CD full of data?) Many early 2000 games I'm fond of used SecuROM. That's always a fun one.

ChrisSD on Jan 23, 2019 [–]

True. Fortunately by now there are cracks for most of those games. And those cracks are relatively simple by modern standards. Maybe a few hex edits and/or a replacement DLL.

Semaphor on Jan 23, 2019 | [–]

They already were commonplace back then. Common "performance hacks" involved simply installing the no-cd crack.

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