Otherwise, YES reverse-engineering your legitimately-obtained copy of Longhorn 5270 IS illegal, not to mention any illegally downloaded copies you may have obtained, AND it is also illegal to continue using the 5270 past the licensing date limit for that buildīesides, unlike Vista, Windows XP does not have the DirectX 9 -driven desktop environment that is a basic requirement for Chess Titans, so that it would be impossible to back port in any case - only in the slightly unlikely event that Microsoft had indeed gone ahead with their one-time "Aero Anywhere" project of a version of WDM and Aero for XP, would such technical feats have been possible.įorward-porting games from older release versions of Windows to newer, or side-porting from Client versions to Servers, whilst technically being just as illegal, is also just as clearly a game that Microsoft continues to tolerate, - but reverse-engineering Beta versions of unreleased software from Microsoft is a special case, and invariably leads to cease-and-desist (when not conducted purely in private, of course). to start with, I really can't see the point of digging up this auncientte threadde of yore.Īnd can you please try and be a little more polite there ? This restrictive nature (ahem, DRM) is part of the reason why I will never run vista outside of a virtual machine. Stop trying to go the microsoft way and tell us we can't do things on our own systems because you just end up sounding like a complete $%#&ing idiot. This is most laughable when one poster here said he dual boots so it's the same hard drive and someone still said that's illegal. How mnany of you have run 3.1 or earlier era basic win games?Įver run 3.x's reversi on xp? Oh no, it's copyrighted too, head to the police station and turn your self in NOW. I have NEVER heard anyone saying this same sort of rubbish of the basic games that came with previous windows. We're talking copying the basic games that come over a private lan, or another part of the same hard drive, and such, for personal use.
Honestly, those of you saying "copying it is illegal" really need to get a grip here.
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