30 day trial programs

I know a lot of people have "trial" programs. but what do you do after the eval. is up? you set your clock back! but.. this is confusing after about 300 progs. remembering all the differnt dates for the different programs. that's where i come in. i have developed a program that does this for you!

You tell it where the program is, give it a name, and a date to set back to. then in the main section of the program, you select the program, and hit run. it sets the clock back to the day specified, runs the program, waits 5 seconds, and restores the date. very useful.

Now i am more than willing to give this software to anyone that wants it. if you wish to have it, just send me an email. but please specify if you have vb 5 or 6 already installed, cuz if you do, i wont send the run-times.

any comments toward the progams can be posted here. thanx a lot!

yours truely,
da404LewZer

please note: this may not work will all evaluation software. but it does with most. if you can set the clock back, it will work.

isn't that piracy?
disallowing programmers like everyone in this forum to receive their profit, for their work. By they way,I think most programs, do not rely on the clock now, they might rely on the bios :confused:
but how would you like to have the profit for your program taken away, because another programmer has developed a way to "crack" it?

hey??

I have done a simple program for this thing too, but it's too simple and in use for one single eval prog. I wan't a copy of your eval (evil) prog now so I maybe can help you developing it better for use with all trial apps.

And for you da_silvy, to do a trial prog is not the right way to get money. It's too easy to get around. Instead of an eval with 30 days, you could set how many times the program may start before it starts to say "Register Now"

yes i know.

or they use a "crippled" version, which does not have all features until registered.

Why not just learn ASM, dis-asm the file, look for the trial string then hex change it? try this link: http://snowcat.cjb.net

i think that this would be a cool little program. please send me a copy! :)

thanx

i have read some of these responces, and i agree with kedaman. if the person cant make a decent enought trial count down, then they need to figure a way to do it. Flash 4 has a very good eval clock on it.

my web site at geocities crashed yesterday, so it will take me a little while to get everything back up. as soon as i do, i will post the link to the program. thank you to everyone who is interested.

-da404LewZer

guys, you really have a very good conversation over there. But i have a question for you. How can i disable that annoying dialog box that comes out everytime i open the form containing the evaluation copy of an OCX. I don't have enough money to buy that $400 activeX control but i really need it. thanks!

Please send me a copy...

Thanks

CLOCK BACK V1.0 created by me, is now avalible!

you can get your copy at http://www.geocities.com/da404lewzer/ it is in the downloads section

thanks for your interest!

please send mail if you find bugs, or see the need for improvements

what is ti-calc
is it
Texas Instruments?
and how do you program it?

I have a TI-83, and there's somekind of language integrated which i haven't used much lately, but it's definitely cool, I have done some games with it. It can also be done on a computer wherefrom you download it to the calculator, I don't have a cable so I can't.

I'm using a TI-83, and I've grown very kind of the programming language. It's of course very limitated (it looks a bit like Basic), and with only 32 kb memory you have to think of every line, but that's what making it fun.
It tends to be a lot of "spaghetti-programming", with a lot of Goto, but you can make quite advanced programs.
I've made a 14-kb Panzer-game, with different features, such as two players, play against the calculator (with different levels), four players, play via cable (with two calculators) and rolling texts showing the credits at the end. (I'm doing a little show-off, now...). Also I've done a tamagochi, a converter for different number bases (Binary to decimal, Hexadecimal to binary, 23-base to 17-base and so on), and an encryptionprogram.
It's also useful since the variables are predefined, and you don't have to think of what datatype they are. On the other hand, of course, it's quite slow.

But, it lights up my math ad physics classes...
Try it!
Pentax

About the time trial thing... There's a lot more to time trials than just setting the clock back. IMHO, If you can overide a time-trial by setting back the clock, then the program using the trial is not worth having. However, there are no foolproof trial software available, but there are trial goodies that can make the life of a copyright cracker hell. And as for HEX editing the program, that's no good either (Unless you know exactly what you are doing).
Executable files use a lot of CRC checks and stuff, and just editing the hex could mess up the whole program.