[plug] Wine not finding CD

[skribe]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:28, Tim White wrote:

> Care to elaborate for the archives. Also, what was the app? It may be
> benificial to use a 'crack' that disables the protection. 

The application is screenplay writing software called Final Draft 5.  
Basically, it was the need to use this for work, and the emulator win4lin to 
allow me to use it with linux, that prevented me from upgrading since 2001.  
Let me just say it's not something I recommend.  Unfortunately, it was the 
best I could manage at the time.

But on with the fix.  Wine handles the copy protection fine if supermount is 
turned off and the disk is mounted.  I had tried this before posting to the 
list but couldn't get it to work.  Unfortunately, what I needed to do was to 
reboot after I disabled supermount.  What it comes down to is that supermount 
is a big POS.  Now I remember why I disabled it in 2001.

>> One argument I 
> have heard for using the crack is that companys have to write to see if
> you CD is still intact and that it hasn't been scrated by taking it out
> and putting it back in the cdrom drive every time you start a different
> application. They should check it when you install and work on trust
> after that.

I've tried finding a crack/keygen for FD5.  Never found one.  Found lots for 
4, 6 and 7, but never for 5. 

BTW, now that I have FD5 working under wine I still can't use it.  It's too 
unstable and crashes often.  I expect it will work with cedega, tho.  I was 
planning to subscribe anyway.  Now I just need to find the time to write.

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