muzzdeni wrote: I am an independent games programmer, my biggest struggle is getting the motivation I need to sit down and code, draft, and hack out my game idea. Games are large projects. Write a small LOB-app. Smaller iterations, quicker results, more feedback. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

The individual cores will be slow so I doubt this will make a happy windows 7 user. Each core will most likely be comparable to atom cpu cores. John

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muzzdeni wrote: An error as in a crc checksum where the program looks for it to know that it is a legal program? Yes. The media will have intentionally bad sectors and non standard gaps between tracks. muzzdeni wrote: A CD has one data track, with multiple audio tracks, So I guess it could be possible to add code to the boot sector so that a program would know where to look for the other "partion" part of the DVD-Rom. A cd/dvd can have multiple data tracks. Its just that the drive picks the outermost TOC/dvd structure (table of contents) and uses that instead. I have had software from plextor that used to allow me mount a disk picking an inner track for directory instead. Also, this will have nothing to do with any boot sector. Also a cd/dvd does not have a partition table. The program knows exactly where to look for the data to test if the media is copied. And sure the dvd can be created in a way that makes it not easy to duplicate. See here for some cd/dvd info: http://www.isobuster.com/help.php?help=170[^] John modified on Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:31 PM

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