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How do u Time a Demo!!

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:38:52 -0700

Who can help me and tell me how i can be able to make my software a Demo so that it can work for like 10 or 30 days.
Is there a component i have to learn in InstallShield Of VC++ or there is an unrevealed trick! Please Help Me.
kea

Re: How do u Time a Demo!!

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:58:17 -0700

hmm,do you mean,how to make a trial-version/shareware of your software? well,thats definitly NOT a topic for this channel,but i try to answer anyway (perhaps the moderator of this forum removes/moves my posting).

the basic idea is to get the date/time of the firsttime your code runs on a given machine.now you have to check the actual date/time each time your program starts and quit if the trial-period is over.implementing this is VERY easy,exspecially when you have a fixed date on which your code becomes invalid.

one thing last: with DEMO PROGRAMMING a kind of multimedia-art is meant.a demo is a little program showing some graphicly-effects like the old-school plasma,fire,water,etc or other animated things,showing the skillz of the coder and some times showing the powerfuller features of the gfx-hardware.

Re: How do u Time a Demo!!

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:57:29 -0700

: hmm,do you mean,how to make a trial-version/shareware of your software? well,thats definitly NOT a topic for this channel,but i try to answer anyway (perhaps the moderator of this forum removes/moves my posting).
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: the basic idea is to get the date/time of the firsttime your code runs on a given machine.now you have to check the actual date/time each time your program starts and quit if the trial-period is over.implementing this is VERY easy,exspecially when you have a fixed date on which your code becomes invalid.
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: one thing last: with DEMO PROGRAMMING a kind of multimedia-art is meant.a demo is a little program showing some graphicly-effects like the old-school plasma,fire,water,etc or other animated things,showing the skillz of the coder and some times showing the powerfuller features of the gfx-hardware.
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hmmm... this thing is very easy to fool. if you just change the date you can use it forever!

by viki007

Re: How do u Time a Demo!!

Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:15:39 -0700

: : hmm,do you mean,how to make a trial-version/shareware of your software? well,thats definitly NOT a topic for this channel,but i try to answer anyway (perhaps the moderator of this forum removes/moves my posting).
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: : the basic idea is to get the date/time of the firsttime your code runs on a given machine.now you have to check the actual date/time each time your program starts and quit if the trial-period is over.implementing this is VERY easy,exspecially when you have a fixed date on which your code becomes invalid.
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: : one thing last: with DEMO PROGRAMMING a kind of multimedia-art is meant.a demo is a little program showing some graphicly-effects like the old-school plasma,fire,water,etc or other animated things,showing the skillz of the coder and some times showing the powerfuller features of the gfx-hardware.
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: hmmm... this thing is very easy to fool. if you just change the date you can use it forever!
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I'm not a brilliant programmer but I believe that you can put a key in the registry or place a well hidden dll somewhere. Don't ask me how though.

Re: How do u Time a Demo!!

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:31:58 -0700

: : : hmm,do you mean,how to make a trial-version/shareware of your software? well,thats definitly NOT a topic for this channel,but i try to answer anyway (perhaps the moderator of this forum removes/moves my posting).
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: : : the basic idea is to get the date/time of the firsttime your code runs on a given machine.now you have to check the actual date/time each time your program starts and quit if the trial-period is over.implementing this is VERY easy,exspecially when you have a fixed date on which your code becomes invalid.
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: : : one thing last: with DEMO PROGRAMMING a kind of multimedia-art is meant.a demo is a little program showing some graphicly-effects like the old-school plasma,fire,water,etc or other animated things,showing the skillz of the coder and some times showing the powerfuller features of the gfx-hardware.
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: : hmmm... this thing is very easy to fool. if you just change the date you can use it forever!
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: : by viki007
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: I'm not a brilliant programmer but I believe that you can put a key in the registry or place a well hidden dll somewhere. Don't ask me how though.
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Are there any ways that we can insert some data in the program itself? I think this way we can protect the software more, but I don't really know if are there any way to do that.

Re: How do u Time a Demo!!

Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:00:51 -0700

This message was edited by CroW at 2004-4-4 16:2:40

Sure,there are lots of places to store you could use for data in the .exe.for example there are in most cases empty/unuses bytes in the win32-exe-header which you can use for youre data.another way is to put somewhere in youre code something like:

char str "UserData"

Now compile your program and do a hex-search for "UserData" in the binary.after that you can use this offset within your file to store data directly to the file.

note:

could be a bit difficult to get the right offset within the binary.it changes with nearly every change in the code or compiler-settings.and you cant encrypt/compress the compiled binary anymore