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First post, by boschwakka

Posted on 2010-06-14, 08:25

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I have a program that ran on windows 98 and dos and the license key looked at the hard drive serial number.
How can i set the serial number in dosbox.
I have tested the progeam and it runs but meeds a license key and the software is discontinued so i cannot get a new license key.
thanks mark

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-06-14, 08:47

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hmm, I encountered this as well at some point... I don't think you can set this unfortunately...

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Reply 2 of 3, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2010-06-14, 08:55

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It depends on how the software reads the serial number. If it uses INT 21/440D, you can change the number that DOSBox reports from 1234-0000 to whatever you want. Look for "serial number" in dos_ioctl.cpp, and change the two dword values there. If you're using a disk image (likely for win98), you'll have to hack the serial in the disk image.

Reply 3 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2010-06-14, 09:44

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If you can compile dosbox yourself, you can add some logging to what your
app checks (dos function 0x69, or the ioctl function ripsaw mentioned).

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