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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] Fix display of Atari logo with extended VDI resolutions
- From: David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:27:02 -0700 (MST)
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- Thread-topic: Fix display of Atari logo with extended VDI resolutions
----- Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 17/11/2016 à 23:36, Thorsten Otto a écrit :
> > On Thursday 17 November 2016 20:37:21 David Savinkoff wrote:
> >> Doesn't patching ROM make it possible to detect the emulator ?
> >
> > I dont' understand that question...
> 
> I guess he means that since ROM has a different CRC, then a program 
> could check it and see if the tos is altered, which could mean program 
> is running under an emulator.
> 
> But we already have several patches that do the same and even our gemdos 
> HD emulation is seen as a cartdridge running at $FA0000 which is 
> sometimes detected by the protection of some demos or games (which will 
> refuse to start unless HD emulation is disabled), so there's nothing new 
> here : non standard enhancements often require patches to TOS and can be 
> detected at run time. If you want an "undetectable" emulator, don't use 
> Hatari's specific features such as HD, VDI, ...
> 
> Nicolas
> 
This explanation cleared it up for me too. Thanks.