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You mean, like watch for an install of SimCity, and modify the game's files? I don't have enough experience in hardware and PCs to know if that was at all possi
by ysavir 4y ago
You mean, like watch for an install of SimCity, and modify the game's files? I don't have enough experience in hardware and PCs to know if that was at all possible or practical.
- nix23 4y ago>like watch for an install of SimCity, and modify the game's files? Yes exactly! Technically easy, a Lawyers thing maybe?
- Someone 4y agoCould also be interesting in a world where most PCs ran anti-virus tools of various different vendors. Imagine Microsoft adding a magic “we’re the good guys” handshake to their OS that would all those anti-virus tool say “go ahead and do whatever you want”.
- markemer 4y agoHonestly you could probably do it today, but back then it would have been a lot harder. You’d have to find every buggy use after free. Just easier to change the allocator for it. Probably how you’d do it today under emulation.