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Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto
Looking at this discussion and disappointed to hear about shutting down the license site for 2.5. I've tried the PC games for TB ll, LOB, The old Data Boxing which I got running on Linux and I still keep coming back to the old TB2.5. just has the best features! Also the vast fighter DBs that have been created over the years.
Currently I run TB2.5 on Linux Mint thru use of Wine. Do hope I can keep it running there!
Recently I saw some other thread that had a place to download a bunch of the old TB files from version 1 up through 2.5.27. Does what is there in any way allow you to fresh load TB and run it without the eLicense up any longer?
Rocco
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Not as far as I can tell. When I install it fresh, it starts in demo mode and needs the license to be activated.
The only thing I can think of to keep it running in the future is to virtualize the computer it's licensed on, then keep a snapshot of that virtualized image somewhere safe
If you search YouTube for tutorials to convert a physical computer to a virtual one, there are lots of vids. Not sure if there are free tools out there that let you do this, but worth a look if you want to keep legacy software running as long as you have hardware that can run the virtual machine
I wish I had the foresight to do this the last time I had a licensed copy of 2.5.27 running. It truly was the best version. I think promises of 3.0 "coming soon" made me believe the franchise was in good health and had me waiting patiently for the release which never came.
DRM only really hurts the paying customers and this is one of but many examples out there.