Re: [Freedos-devel] Tracking bugs (was Re: ... two useful FreeDOS kern el requests)

2021-06-16 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Bret, thanks for explaining UPC/EAN. >> Either way, using the UPC for copy protection of games is pretty >> much pointless, because you can easily copy that as well, so I >> still FIRST want to know whether games REALLY rely on that for >> their copy protection scheme. here we have the smart E

Re: [Freedos-devel] Tracking bugs (was Re: ... two useful FreeDOS kern el requests)

2021-06-15 Thread Bret Johnson
> as you say, there are the UPC/EAN of the CD and ISRC of each track > if audio, both optional, but UPC/EAN probably is widespread for > audio. Things have certainly changed over the years. UPC/EAN has always existed for CD's (which started in 1982). ISRC didn't even exist until 1989, so the fi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Tracking bugs (was Re: ... two useful FreeDOS kern el requests)

2021-06-15 Thread Bret Johnson
> I have to admit that I don't even know what UPC is. > OTOH this should be tested by a developer who is at least able to > detect if UPC features are even searched for by these games. > Both in a OAKCDROM and UDVD2 environment. Jack is absolutely right > to refuse to implement UPC just in case it