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I recently got rather interested in working on Windows 3.1/DOS Shareware apps that can be registered. Keygens, program hacks, calculations and the like seem to be providing me with some interesting stuff to try, and to learn.

Now, the issue of making registration codes for just any antiquated software is that I have no intention of posting most of the efforts I've done. I have no qualms with registering any software I'm capable of for myself, and I've already attacked and killed pretty much every app with a reg code that was being a splinter from my past. Making such discovered infos widely available isn't really a good idea though, despite the age of what I'm working on.

If there's anything around on any site, other than Slam! and Kye, that's freeware/abandonware, which doesn't yet have the needed registration info to go along with it, then give some info here about it.

I've also run into a few Windows 3.1 apps that refused to run in Windows XP, citing a dislike of 'Windows NT' systems. I have no problem with trying to enable any such program to run under NT mode. This is something that happened with 2 programs called Icon Manager and Icon Studio. The 32-bit versions are junk in Windows XP. The 16-bit versions not only run faster, but work better(or at all). The 'GETWINFLAGS' function returns that the system is 'Windows NT' based, even in the emulated subsystem of Windows XP.

I've run into some packed executables that gave me all kinds of grief already, so no guarantees, just a chance.

Hope there's something left to help with.

Most of the liberated games on the site (games that used to be shareware or commercial software that were declared freely distributable by the copyright holders) were released as full versions, such as Apogee's many freeware releases. I occasionally get permission to declare a game freeware from an author by email, and they don't always have a copy of the full/registered version of the game to send me. At worst, this means that there a few games that have a shareware notice or nag screen. Games that could use a registration code, keygen, or hack don't immediately spring to mind, but you can take a look at the list of former shareware and former commercial games. Your help on Slam! and Kye was greatly appreciated. I also had fun spending most of the day yesterday finding millions of valid registration codes for Slam!.

I think Whale's Voyage II (apparently released as freeware) has nag screens, or at least the version I found at the time (about one year ago) had them. Don't know if that's the case with the version available here:

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppe ... hale_2.htm

I didn't see anything that looked like a nag screen in that version. I can't read german to any degree, but if you find it, the size of the EXE looks about right to be able to get rid of it.

All I got were missing-CD errors, I think.