Can't someone crack the 10/1 cutoff?

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

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 -------- 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)

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.

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> 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.

-------- 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)

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

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>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.

> 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

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> > 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. -- Richard "ZZ" Busch Official member: Sim Racing Mag Honda Challenge Screamers Racing League NASROC ---------------- Busch Motorsports: Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward ----------------- Busch Carpentry: Plans?, Oh, you mean that napkin sketch?

Works like a charm, Goeorge, thanks!

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> > 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

Thanks George :) Works fine here David

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> > 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

Thank you SO much George Tim L

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> > 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 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)

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> > 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

> 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

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

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> 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.

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