it never just snows, it’s always a blizzard
So I went and shot off my cakehole (well, my blogging cakehole - cakefingers ?) about how cool Blizzard was to be releasing patches for old games and so on. The patch version, as I mentioned earlier; was 1.19.
After an anxious day of waiting - actually, it’s not like I play Warcraft all that often; but the mere threat of being deprived of play is enough to make me want to play it right now, dammit - I download said no-cd crack from a dodgy site.
Only to find that in the interim, Blizzard has put out patch 1.19b … With just one fix: this patch fixes multiplayer games that would crash under certain circumstances. Why, thank you Blizzard. Aaargh. Is there a no-cd patch for version 1.19b ? Obviously not.
Head, meet keyboard. Repeatedly.
I think I’m going to overdose myself on cheap Mars bars and brood for a bit.
On 23-Sep-05 at 10:44 am,
Splee wrote:
That sucks. But shouldn’t you just buy the game? You can get it for about £15 from GAME… (http://shop.game.net/ViewProduct.aspx?cat=10405&mid=320738)
On 23-Sep-05 at 12:23 pm,
drac wrote:
*sigh* Yes, it’s just the principle of the thing, I suppose. Or the decided lack of principle in this case - using an evil CD-check circumventing device so that the drive doesn’t spin up and down each time I play - it makes a high pitched whine that’s like dragging nails across a blackboard *shudder*.
I’ve been playing with the CD in the drive for the past day or so. Looking at making an image on my hard disk with Alcohol or Daemon Tools, actually. I should be ok then.
I’ve also gotten several dozen hits for those unfortunate keywords since I made mention of the magic no-cd and 1.19b words
Won’t be long before minions of Vivendi Entertainment come knocking on my door.
On 26-Sep-05 at 1:50 am,
Splee wrote:
*waits for the flying squad raid on Tinster’s abode*
BTW, that image thing works most of the time, especially for slightly elderly games. It does make CD changing a thing of the past. At one point I had 8 virtual CD drives running at once with all my different games.