Wow, that was horrific.
zabadoh
joined 1 year ago
The same caution is advisable when searching for any free software.
There's all kinds of malware, adware, and just plain malicious crap that shows up in search engine results.
The corollary is that a book has to be in-print, or commercially distributed in e-book form, to have any sales.
If neither new printed copies, or commercially sold e-books are available, then taking down pirate sites, or even an archive like archive.org, only diminishes the collection and availability of human knowledge and literature.
JD Vance talks about a fictionalized fantasy world made for entertainment and most importantly profit after he tells his son to shut up about Pokemon.
Don't blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.
The AI has announced that its first bill will be the Kill All Humans Act.
Let him try.
Keep him out out at sea until he finishes.
The full disc images worked well, and hard drive space is so cheap these days, that I'd worry about getting the virtual drive emulator working first.
WinCDEmu is FOSS, so you might look into that first.
Back in the day, I bought Alcohol 120, and it worked great.
The mini-CD image trick (optional): https://forum.daemon-tools.cc/forum/copy-methods-questions-daemon-tools/general-copy-discussion/4900-
Those no-disc patches can be sketchy and infected, so watch out!
My preferred way to play games without CDs was virtual disc emulators, so you can store a copy of your game disc on your hard drive, and virtually pop that game's CD image into the virtual drive in when you want to play that specific game.
One good trick with these, is that you don't even need a full copy of the disc: There was some trick to creating a very small disc image that just has enough information to get past the game's copy protection, but it's been well over 2 decades since I did any of that, so you'll have to do your own research.
I have also noticed some dips in brightness in some shows.
Sounds like an encoding problem, or some sort of form of copy protection in the streamed video that screws up the encoding algorithms, like the old Macrovision copy protection on VHS tapes.
Didn't you watch Doogie Howser?