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I have 1.0 with crack.
From JTK.
http://stunts.kalpen.de/zip/stunts.zip

special features:   - with Competition car 0.9.
   - with tracks made by JTK.
   - with Opponent Blaster (Ob.exe).
   - with already blasted Skid Vicious.
   - with new icons for the game and replays (.ico).
   - start Stunts with st.com so you can skip the security option of the game with the <enter> key.

Fight aka 4D sports boxing..

Or are you mocking a tired dyslexic non native English speaker for a writing error?

We reached to the same conclusion. Also, It seems like ad-lib and sound blaster are closely related. Since stunts doesn't have separate sound blaster VCE and driver files (fight does however)

Also the VCE files from fight work in stunts but the KMS files don't. I have not checked jet if fight accepts stunts files.

What is the relationship between the driver and the fx vce files?

When trying to get a fight music Kms file to play in stunts CAS noticed that fight has a lot more fx related files.

The driver files form Fight are interchangeable with stunts. Makes no difference.

(i'm playing with music files VCE and KMS. to see if other music works in stunts)

or the differences in the MT32.PLB (contains midi sounds for motor, screeching tires, crash,...)

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Stunts 1.0                             11.10.1990    1271   A7A3E9EFA284123036E73AB8477D5DCA
Stunts 1.1                             12.03.1991    1271   A7A3E9EFA284123036E73AB8477D5DCA
4D Stunts Driving                      ~1991         1271   A7A3E9EFA284123036E73AB8477D5DCA
Bill Elliotts Nascar Challenge         ~1991         1271   A7A3E9EFA284123036E73AB8477D5DCA
4D Sports Boxing                       06.11.1990    1779   0EA5CFFD36BB690DEC7387AF7E86B450
Mission Impossible                     27.06.1991    4605   7C0F1C9C8BB045D63F89D9A0FE2AA665
Michael Jordan in Flight               21.12.1992    5699   D0535F622A66D37A0845A0AD10F81D88
The Simpsons: Barts House of Weirdness ~1991        15845   748108E73E5A2D19688B4F4B84195602


Do they work in stunts? Or do they use different variables?
I wonder what the Simpsons file would give for engine sound 

Nonsens. It took me only about six months of nearly daily reading to read the whole.. (maybe not all chat in life besides stunts.)

It was a good way to get through the most difficult time of my life.

I had such moment in 2003. I uploaded everything that was important to me at that time.

It was, nothing more than, a site rip of JTK his stunts site.
Because at that moment it was te only stunts source know to me and I didn't want to lose it.

I'm getting to understand the complexity.
It was I nice idea, but very hard to execute.

Thank you for thinking with me though.

It gives me a greater appreciation of the cracks as the are and now I also understand more about the restunts endeavour.

i don't know what you mean by "better car graphics" CGA/EGA/TANDY are older technologies and got much less colors then VGA (4 or 16 colors, i don't know TANDY)

I mean for the graphics of the custom cars.
If you want to adjust the pallet it's good to see the effect.
Of course you can view that with the current crack as well.

In the bypassing load.exe there is mention of a repackaging tool.
http://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=2454.msg55894#msg55894

As learned form dstien's restunts SVN repository the copy protection can be permanently disabled by setting a 0 to a 1
Why then are the cracks so elaborate?

First of all, its clvn's SVN, he started the restunts project

I realized that to later. I copied the text of the copy that dreadnaut made of dstien's repository. It is clvn's SVN.

I apologize for the clumsy phrasing of that line.

not in a million years - these exes/coms have nothing in common

Ok. I was afraid you would say that.
I kind of expected it to be so as well.

So if I understand correctly. Load.exe creates an executable in memory based on the setup information.
For the reengineering project, only the MCGA/VGA output and the sound blaster/pc speaker were taken.
To create a different version, that process has to be redone with different setup data.

Then I return to my original idea. Can we change the copy protection bit in the original files?
I would like the copy protection popup to disappear like in the restunts version. Because it's annoying.

The other video modes are useful for creating better car graphics, but are not necessary for reverse engendering, if I understand correctly.

Ok. Something else.
In the bypassing load.exe thread I read that the following parameters are accepted.

/ns - no sound
/nb - parsed, but unused
/ssb - use soundblaster (ad15.drv) instead of pc speaker
/sXY - use driver XY15.drv instead of pc speaker (e.g /sad for soundblaster)

But these are all sound related.
Are the video parameters accepted as well?

In other words. If I would rename that executable to load.exe. would it load correctly with the setup.dat information if I run the game with stunts.com??

The Netherlands do reasonably well but I'm still disappointed. The ones that were expected to succeed didn't.

So the whole deal with load.exe was intended as an elaborate way to hide the actual executable so the game would be difficult to crack?

Secondly.
Is it worth the effort to create the original file with the bit changed, so the copy protection is disabled.
I know that I can just use the restunts executable or a crack, but I wish for an as clean as possible version without the copy protection.

It can be done, i'm sure of that.