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This is genuinely funny. In a dark way but still made me chuckle. Thanks.

They.

"...and awaits the coming of the tides of darkness"

l'chaim!

Not everyone uses a laptop as their desktop too.

Hopefully that's the case.

If falling out of fashion is that good reason then yeah. At least it's not a highbrow esoteric language thingy that next to no-one in the wild used to begin with.

I've personally fixed an early noughties Perl script where one of the modules it used had changed its name (but thankfully not the interface, not significantly at least), among a couple of other compat problems. Fixing it turned out pretty straightforward even for someone who's far from a greybeard Perl "hacker".

I can only say that from purely user/tinkerer POV (not some low-level system programmer) the best memory of IDE/PATA I have is when the PCs have finally moved on to SATA/AHCI. Phew.

Be sure, I'm not complaining about anything here.

Tho initially all those years back IIRC I wanted to tinker with how it installs mods for the Linux native "enhanced" editions. Otherwise I wouldn't even know what it's written in.

I'm by no means an expert on Starforce and friends, I'm just bringing attention to a nifty tool many I suspect aren't aware of. Also to highlight that CDEMU should support all these subchannel and stuff in CCD and others - maybe you right and this itself should make the protection algo happy, provided the image file is correct and comprehensive. It's just that I vaguely remember Cdemu had some specific protection options, but I might be wrong here.

ehr.. dozens?

This brings the Fallout 2 memories anyway...

CDEMU/libmirage support both CCD et al and MDF/MDS images. Mixed modes, etc - the whole shebang. How good the copyright protection emulation is I cannot say tho.

No, I haven't meant to imply that Perl should be used for the subj. But doubt it'd have proven any worse than OCaml. All depends on the programmer unsurprisingly.

well then the functionality has been sacrificed - because few people besides the author were willing to brave hacking in OCaml I presume

The only program written in OCaml that I think I've used is WeiDU mod installer for Infinity Engine games. Took a quick look under the bonnet too. Suffice to say, my only thought has been that should the author had chosen a sane language like say Perl (which seems to be ideally suited to what WeiDu does), the software could have been improved by many, many people.

Hopefully ver. 2 will be called Hexen

Wonder why's that... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10894160.2025.24...

Triggers most of the wrong people. You know, those that aren't even mentioned by someone him in this case but are still offended like they're being tortured. THat sort.

why do you do this