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Time for some bad premature fan art 

Side question...

Since I don't have any problems with memory with the game.exe.
Does game.exe still load in real mode memory? Or secretly in extended?

I don't know how to check that..

I like powergear. it is in use though, but it's not likely to be a problem. https://powergear.eu/

I was thinking in the line of "Stunts Legacy.
From the player's of Stunts a.k.a. 4D Sports Driving"

I thought of it because my earlier suggestion of a legacy driving mode next to simulation.

The general solution for z229-b^2-4ac=0?

If it is 0 then X = -b/2a

But how am I to know the good side from the bad?

Some way to distinguish the alternate version would be sensible. If only for support reason's

That's sounds reasonable. We could update the version number to 1.2 or something so it is clearly something new.

(I've done that in my testing copy.  just because I can )

So, if i understand correctly it is very difficult to remove the copy protection from the original file without using execombiner to make a new executable.
Not that i'm opposed to the idea. But it would have been nice to have a ' Freeware ' edition with only original files and working setup..

...and patch the single byte to prevent copy protection
see subversion links with code and this post: http://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=2454.msg43618#msg43618

. some further analysis reveals the the output game.exe from the above program is compressed with exepack, as with load.exe.

to remove the copy protection, uncompress with unp and put a byte 0x1 at offset 0x2b3c

I'm not sure in which file.
But it seems like 1 file for the copy protection
And if it's another file load.exe that needs repack.

So 2 files to alter for option C
(Unless I totally missed something)

Although I can follow the conversation I'm not going to attempt to make these changes. Not comfortable with this level of editing 

Edit: missed end quote...

True. But in de end you only have (modified) original files. So basically what you had on the disk.
Feels most authentic to me.
Copy protection is outdated, nobody cares (probably) and it's a nuisance.

I don't know what the others think about this.

Option A doesn't feel right. It fixes the problem but a crack is still needed.

Option B is kind of what restunts does. So we already have that.

Option C is most appealing to me as it fixes the issue and the need for a crack.

Of course this all only matters if you want to play without emulator.

the primary problem that there is no clean official package that solves such problems for everyone - time to speak to Kalpen to update the package

You mean a repack of the original files that are clean but keeping as much in tact as possible (except copy protection) ?

It was the sound.
ran setup and disabled sound, no problem. on PC speaker also no problem

so stunts runs. problem solved.   [EDIT]  runs in MS-DOS. [/EDIT]
next stop, getting sound...

NB: haven't done sound config in dos on 25 years or so.,. and never on a "modern" laptop.
modern is relative here since the laptop was designed for windows XP

to be continued....

EDIT::
sound not supported in dos, not possible either according to internet. Chipset not reverse compatible.
I'm gonna put this project on hold for now..

All my stunts versions are from kalpen.de or except for the competition version.

But maybe it crashed on sound. I haven't setup a sound driver but maybe the copy of Stunts is looking for it. Will look into this later..

I'm a bit confused. (Don't worry, I'm used to it)
The cracked executable gives problems, that's understandable.
Restunts game.exe runs fine everywhere (dosbox, freedos and MS-DOS)
The original executable stunts.com won't run in freedos or MS-DOS either.

That is my experience, so there's a difference in the way the program is executed.

.... I'll get back to this....

Works with all versions except 1.0 in dosbox.
Works with fresh freedos (game.exe at least) on my laptop. (1 of them)
ill have to work on the sound

the funny thing is that i had the errors with the original executable to.
I checked that.