Hello All;
A few bits of information for those that are wanting to put a time limit on their games for Trial purposes.
Do not use the Registry:
Using the registry to set time limits on your games is fine
If you are making a game that is going to be used by children to educate, thus the parents will run it and then
Buy it. Other then that, on a good game, Fighter - High impact type of games, you can near about guaranty that the user will find a way to go around the registry.
It is not that difficult to do.
You need to find a wrapper that will grab the .exe file and wrap it with a Hardware inventory list.
What this will do is run the program on the Current Install only of the Windows OP.
So that the only way to further run the program without first purchasing it is to ...(Something that only the true die-hard gamer/hacker will do) Reload the OP to extend their time every 30 days. (Useless and meaningless but people do, do it)
The software that we use to sell came with 30-day trials.
And the wrapper that we used luckily was unbreakable.
No cracks came out for it for the 2 yrs that it was available. But previous versions of the program running a lower-end wrapper was cracked and found all over the net.
Very sad day to find that out, but a better wrapper was made, we got it and it worked like a charm.
Unfortunately that wrapper will not work with Blitz.
As it is a source code wrapper, that was made especially for Delphi & C++ Language codes. (Borland Code)
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#1: Do not use the Registry.
#2: Find a Wrapper that grabs hardware Inventory.
HTH
Carrzkiss
A few bits of information for those that are wanting to put a time limit on their games for Trial purposes.
Do not use the Registry:
Using the registry to set time limits on your games is fine
If you are making a game that is going to be used by children to educate, thus the parents will run it and then
Buy it. Other then that, on a good game, Fighter - High impact type of games, you can near about guaranty that the user will find a way to go around the registry.
It is not that difficult to do.
You need to find a wrapper that will grab the .exe file and wrap it with a Hardware inventory list.
What this will do is run the program on the Current Install only of the Windows OP.
So that the only way to further run the program without first purchasing it is to ...(Something that only the true die-hard gamer/hacker will do) Reload the OP to extend their time every 30 days. (Useless and meaningless but people do, do it)
The software that we use to sell came with 30-day trials.
And the wrapper that we used luckily was unbreakable.
No cracks came out for it for the 2 yrs that it was available. But previous versions of the program running a lower-end wrapper was cracked and found all over the net.
Very sad day to find that out, but a better wrapper was made, we got it and it worked like a charm.
Unfortunately that wrapper will not work with Blitz.
As it is a source code wrapper, that was made especially for Delphi & C++ Language codes. (Borland Code)
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#1: Do not use the Registry.
#2: Find a Wrapper that grabs hardware Inventory.
HTH
Carrzkiss