I think the cracked app just lets you use and old serial number. I guess you'll find out in a month after installing if it doesn't accept outside calls...Adding to this old thread - is the serial # in the txt file actually required, or is the app itself cracked and the serial # is there for reference?
I did manage to apply the serial number in the txt file, but it corrupts the install so I'm assuming it's not needed?
Interesting, so the crack really didn't work. I'll let Sidd know.Looks like the issue goes wayyyy back to the beforetimes! I've seen conversations about clocks being configured wrong, etc, causing the issue.
Interesting, so the crack really didn't work. I'll let Sidd know.
Sidd's gonna take a look into it and hopefully he can at least disable the serial number check in the message editor. I believe that the program is fully functional otherwise, correct?Thanks much. It's not so much that it didn't work it seems - it did exactly what it was supposed to do - it allowed the use of the old serial #. However, somewhere in the code of the program it's supposed to do something odd when it comes across that serial #.
Sidd's gonna take a look into it and hopefully he can at least disable the serial number check in the message editor. I believe that the program is fully functional otherwise, correct?
Haha! Thanks for going down the rabbit hole. Now that I think about it, I ran into the same issue with the message posting crash but just thought I had an unstable copy of the program. That's one of the reasons I went with v3.5.11 running as a game server on my BBS instead of v3.1.1.Because I have absolutely no life, I spent a couple of hours going down the rabbit hole of old Usenet posts to see what was going on at the time.
Depending on who was posting, the message area was definitely the issue, and other people said that it would break your OS, reset your PRAM, steal your firstborn, etc. Possibly, at the very least, cause the system to become unstable.
Haha! Thanks for going down the rabbit hole. Now that I think about it, I ran into the same issue with the message posting crash but just thought I had an unstable copy of the program. That's one of the reasons I went with v3.5.11 running as a game server on my BBS instead of v3.1.1.
Were you ever able to find more door games than what I did?
Nice! Any chance you could zip up that directory and send it my way?Yup, and while going down the rabbit hole I started downloading (and still am) shareware CDs and such that have externals on them. Some might be useful, some not, but I have about 30 sitting on the board right now and maybe 100+ sitting in a dir.
Nice! Any chance you could zip up that directory and send it my way?
Thank you!! Were you able to get any other games to work under v3.1.1 or v3.5 that weren't listed in post #6 of this thread?As promised, here's some externals. It's still a work in progress, so it's a big mess for now