StarForce problem

[mahldcat]

Something I'm kind of curious about...reading about some of the fun stuff that Starforce could do to a machine...and also recalling a disucssion I had with a coworker about things like the secure computing initiative (palladium) and how hardware emulation could turn the entire SCI/Palladium idea on its head...wondered if there might be a way to get the game to run inside of an emulated environment like vmware.

I know where I work, the driver engineers used VMWAre extensively to develop and test, as you were able to freeze the machine in place and step through it (ala some of the debuggers like SoftIce etc)...and you had a very powerful rollback feature as well...

I don't have much experience in the low level assembler programming, but might this be a way to aid in reverse engineering Starforce?

...I'm also thinking about how a lot of the discussion is revolving around hacking the machine to hide the IDE drives...this process is very easy in VMWare, and is one of things I was thinking about...

Cheers,

Mahldcat