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[Fubb]

turns out our schools tecnical wizard has made it so that all the my documents will be scanned for .exe file's, thus rendering games unplayable. I wanna play Civ 2 god damnit!

Any suggestions? Is it pssible to play it while its in it's .zip file? course then i wouldnt have my scenarios....or i could play it off of a flash drive

[The Fifth Horseman]

Can't play them from ZIPs, unless they're absolutely self-contained.

[Fubb]

Dang. Ill just load my games onto a flash drive i guess

[_r.u.s.s.]

if you want to keep it on your school pcs you can also rename the extension and it will still be runable. for example,

you have c:\game\abc.exe
rename it to abc.pexe

and then open your comand line
cd to the directory where the game is (cd c:\game)
and write ./abc.pexe

or just create a batch file inside the same directory with line ./abc.pexe
or a shortcut..
anything

of course, if the game is looking for more exe files you're screwed and have to play it off usb

[Saccade]

Either that or add the game files - complete with directory listing - to a disc image like .iso.

That'd be like using a .zip like you said, but you could play it through daemon.

Only snag is that any disc imaging software will probably need an .exe to run, though you could combine that with _russ' idea of renaming the files to pexe.
You'd not have to worry about a game's dependant .exe's then - or Dosbox or anything.

You could just play games that launch with .com, too... But:
I'd go with running the games off an external HDD or one of these so-called "flash drives".
You flash bastard.

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Flash (dun dun dun dun) a-ah
Savior of the Universe
Flash
He saved everyone of us
Flash
He's a miracle
Flash
King of the impossible

He's for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
He save with a mighty hand
Every man every woman
Every chill-he's a mighty
Flash

Just a man
With a man's courage
Nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No-one but the pure at heart
May find the Golden Grail

Flash by Queen (featuring Brian Blessed laughing HO HO HOH HOO!)
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Incidentally, your school techie sounds like a prick.
You should smuggle games into school just to display some kinda rebellion against his tyranny.
Good thing he's not scanning for MPEG's though, else you couldn't watch so much porn.

[arete]

For some reason, Dansguardian isn't working on my PC lately

Otherwise I couldn't dl zips, exe's, mp3's, mp4's, avi's... Silly bugger never heard of rar and mkv extensions, though I spend most of my time cocking the proverbial snook at him cos he's stuck up. Then again, he spent seven years in England, didn't he? Sarcastic bugger.

And I can't help wondering what qualifications Flash Gordon has for being saviour of the Universe... Don't see any ability to walk on water, calm the seas with a gentle rebuke, feed five thousand men with five loaves and two fish...

[El Quia]

Originally Posted by arete

And I can't help wondering what qualifications Flash Gordon has for being saviour of the Universe... Don't see any ability to walk on water, calm the seas with a gentle rebuke, feed five thousand men with five loaves and two fish...

He stopped Ming the Merciless!!!