<div dir="ltr">I also support the opinions of Matt and Paul. I don't think we are a threat to them, and I really am up to adding support for these versions. The users will need to buy their game(s) anyway from Steam, so I don't see how having a different executable is going to make things any different.<div>
<br></div><div>AFAIK, the Steam releases are using DOSBox anyway. So, there really isn't any reason for that stupid "protection", other than to stop people from reusing executables from older non-Steam versions with the Steam data files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Filippos</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Johannes Schickel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lordhoto@scummvm.org" target="_blank">lordhoto@scummvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 06/03/2014 04:06 PM, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:<br>
> Despite the expressed opinions, I would still prefer to abstain from it.<br>
><br>
> Just think about it. They clearly made it in order to hide from our<br>
> project ability to directly run the games. They deliberately decided<br>
> to put additional effort and it is for sure not a mistake or oversight.<br>
><br>
> For those who are not aware, they hid the index .LFL file into engine<br>
> executable, so all those patches Matt is referring to, do extract them<br>
> with use of hardcoded tables.<br>
><br>
> I do clearly understand how pitiful this could be for end-users, and<br>
> that it could lead to frustration.<br>
><br>
> Nevertheless, the safety of ScummVM Team and project is at my highest<br>
> priority. I just want you guys to continue enjoy hacking ScummVM and<br>
> sleeping well at night, without any potential threat from lawyers.<br>
><br>
> Any other opinions, particularly from the core team?<br>
<br>
</div>I think Matthew and Paul have a point here that it seems ScummVM isn't<br>
really seen as a threat. So, personally I'm also all for supporting the<br>
Stream releases out of the box too.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
// Johannes<br>
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