Defcon craving
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Defcon craving
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Am I alone in wanting this game so bad? Like I obsessively check the IV website/forums...it's bad. It just looks like sooo much fun.
I'll pay $100 to anyone who can provide me Defcon. Please, IV, sell it to me now!
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edit: reward upped to $200
edit2: reward upped to $300
Am I alone in wanting this game so bad? Like I obsessively check the IV website/forums...it's bad. It just looks like sooo much fun.
I'll pay $100 to anyone who can provide me Defcon. Please, IV, sell it to me now!
</whine>
edit: reward upped to $200
edit2: reward upped to $300
Last edited by LtWaldo on Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:20 am, edited 2 times in total.
xander wrote:Would I be correct in assuming that the Defcon beta, like the Darwinia beta, is customised for each machine, and that only the person with that machine can play it? Thus, while someone could, in theory, send you the files, they wouldn't work.
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Theoretically, how would you customize it for each machine? MAC addresses? Serial numbers? A validation system with the IV server? All of these protections could be overcome.
Montyphy wrote:Well Chris used some l33t coding which uses your hardware specs to generate machine code from the source that will only operate on that hardware. But luckly I have the source so I can just compile it all locally and it works fine.
Not just the hardware. Every time I ran a system update during the Darwinia beta, I was forced to update my system information, and download a new version of the beta. This is the information that was submitted to IV:
Code: Select all
SysInfoGenVersion: 2
CpuVendor: PowerPC 7450
CpuModel: ppc7450
Num Processors: 1
Country: Any
Language: en_GB
Num sound devices: 1
Primary sound device: Built-in Audio
Graphics Card: ATY,RV350M10
Operating System: Darwin 7.8.0
Computer Name: nausicaa
So, I assume that changing any of those things would throw off the code.
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Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.
Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
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This is exactly true. I can't run any of the original betas or RC's. It's a shame... I like some of the older versions.trickfred wrote:Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.
Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
Phydaux wrote:This is exactly true. I can't run any of the original betas or RC's. It's a shame... I like some of the older versions.trickfred wrote:Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.
Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
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