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Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

Kurt Steinboc

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Kurt Steinboc » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Isn't there some talented person who can find a way to disable the 10/1
expiration on the GPL 1.2 patch?  Man, I don't want to build another GPL
plus add-ons again if I can help it.

Kurt

Jason Mond

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Jason Mond » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Set your PC date back to before Oct 1, 1999


> Isn't there some talented person who can find a way to disable the 10/1
> expiration on the GPL 1.2 patch?  Man, I don't want to build another GPL
> plus add-ons again if I can help it.

> Kurt

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Jason Mond

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Jason Mond » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I'm sure someone could hack the patch.  You talked about installing a fresh
install of GPL and I figured setting back the date would be much easier.
Alision has a feeling the real patch could be out in a couple weeks.  Until
then just set the clock back and enjoy 1.2 until the official version comes
out.  If installing the new version doesn't install, copying your 1.0 gpl.exe
file from the CD should make it work.

Jason.


> I know about the stop-gap fix.  I was looking for a real, permanent
> solution.  Isn't this possible?

> Kurt


> >Set your PC date back to before Oct 1, 1999


> >> Isn't there some talented person who can find a way to disable the 10/1
> >> expiration on the GPL 1.2 patch?  Man, I don't want to build another GPL
> >> plus add-ons again if I can help it.

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Jason Monds
"My other car is a Ferrari"
http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl - For my combined gas/brake setups
(Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)
Kurt Steinboc

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Kurt Steinboc » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I know about the stop-gap fix.  I was looking for a real, permanent
solution.  Isn't this possible?

Kurt


>Set your PC date back to before Oct 1, 1999


>> Isn't there some talented person who can find a way to disable the 10/1
>> expiration on the GPL 1.2 patch?  Man, I don't want to build another GPL
>> plus add-ons again if I can help it.

George M. Smile

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by George M. Smile » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
run on a machine with the month set to October or
beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
patch probably differs although a similar search
will probably yield similar results.

 - George

ZZ Busc

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by ZZ Busc » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> > I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

> Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
> the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
> mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
> editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
> 0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
> the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
> register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
> than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
> run on a machine with the month set to October or
> beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

> Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
> patch probably differs although a similar search
> will probably yield similar results.

>  - George

Now George, do you think you could post the cracked .EXE somewhere so
all of us can use ver 1.2

It's just an idea, I had it when I heard about the time bomb.

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Johan Hoek

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Johan Hoek » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Works like a charm, Goeorge, thanks!




> > I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

> Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
> the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
> mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
> editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
> 0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
> the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
> register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
> than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
> run on a machine with the month set to October or
> beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

> Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
> patch probably differs although a similar search
> will probably yield similar results.

>  - George

David Er

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by David Er » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Thanks George :) Works fine here
David




> > I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

> Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
> the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
> mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
> editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
> 0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
> the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
> register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
> than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
> run on a machine with the month set to October or
> beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

> Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
> patch probably differs although a similar search
> will probably yield similar results.

>  - George

Tim Leighto

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Tim Leighto » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Thank you SO much George
Tim L




> > I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

> Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
> the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
> mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
> editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
> 0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
> the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
> register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
> than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
> run on a machine with the month set to October or
> beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

> Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
> patch probably differs although a similar search
> will probably yield similar results.

>  - George

Maribel Sot

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Maribel Sot » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

GEORGE
First of all, many thanks...

But for the benefit of those of us who don't really know what  you're
talking about...
Would it be possible for one of you to post the "hacked file(s)" somewhere
so we can download it and play 1.2 in spite of being programming-challenged?
What you describe is probably the simplest thing in the world, but I for one
just don't feel so sure than I'm not gonna***something up!

BTW...is the patch still available somewhere?

Luis (Maribel's husband)




> > I'm sure someone could hack the patch.

> Consider me someone.  If you have no respect for the
> the executable, don't like to wait, and don't want to
> mess with your system clock open gpl.exe in the hex
> editor of your choice and change the bytes at location
> 0x0000B16D from 0x7F04 to 0x7C04.  For reference
> the preceeding bytes are 0x83F909, i.e compare
> register blah against 9, we change jump if greater
> than to jump if less than, so GPL 1.2.0.0 will now
> run on a machine with the month set to October or
> beyond.  A little disassembly goes a long way. :-)

> Note this is for the U.S. 1.2 patch only, the German
> patch probably differs although a similar search
> will probably yield similar results.

>  - George

George M. Smile

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by George M. Smile » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00


> Thank you SO much George

It was truly my pleasure.  Also, for those GPLers out there
that don't have a hex editor and/or don't want to play
around with the GPL executable I have submitted the
time cracked version of the patch to:

http://www.the-fastlane.com

It should show up sometime later in the day.

 - George

Kall

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Kall » Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Yes, it's possible.
Please don't consider me a hacker, but I don't like to set the date of my
system back and I still want to test the new patch.
Here is what you have to do:
with an Hex editor goto offset  ACD6 in gpl.exe (US version) and change 74
to EB.
On my computer all works fine (I tested it for 1 hour without any problem).
Anyway any problems or incidents that may occur when you make these
modification are not my reponsibility.

Markku


> I know about the stop-gap fix.  I was looking for a real, permanent
> solution.  Isn't this possible?

> Kurt


> >Set your PC date back to before Oct 1, 1999


> >> Isn't there some talented person who can find a way to disable the 10/1
> >> expiration on the GPL 1.2 patch?  Man, I don't want to build another
GPL
> >> plus add-ons again if I can help it.

Stif

Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

by Stif » Tue, 05 Oct 1999 04:00:00

This does not work!!! I tried it. Had to go with a new install.
.  If installing the new version doesn't install, copying your 1.0 gpl.exe

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