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Bada Bing · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 8:38 am Post subject:

ANybody know how to get arround the CD Key for Halflife? I just got my laptop up and runnig with Half-life/TFC but Bada Jr and I cannot play on the same server at the sametime because it sees both PC have the same CDKey.
Any IDEAS other than the one I think I will have to do which is buying another copy of Half-life.

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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 8:50 am Post subject:

Frys has sales on Half-Life as low as $19.00 all the time. If you have one of those near you. Of course you could use a Router acting as an DHCP server, your ISP might not allow that or require you to pay for the additional computers hooked up. So you will have to check.
If you share a key you will share stats and names and punshiments.
(killer what have you done now??) lol
Buying the new game is probably the cheapest way to go.

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Bada Bing · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 9:21 am Post subject:

Yeah that's the way I was leaning. I work for a Software company and we hate it when people don't buy a copy for each PC. There is a Fry's in Sacramento thats only an hour away and I can always try Wally World.

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Bada Bing · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 9:25 am Post subject:

P/S you techie you as an MCSE myself I should have thought of your idea as well. My ISP would not charge any more as I use ISDN now and they hit me for 2 lines anyway. Next month I'm moving to an area where DSL is available and then I hope to see better pings tha the 150 - 400 I get with ISDN.

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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 9:38 am Post subject:

Thats an interesting point. We have 6 computers here and share software between them. Especially since we build our own. Except the laptop. Now don't yell at me about piracey we have bought enough software to supply each computer with there own complement of programs and OS's. But we do share them amongst themselves. For instance I'm not going to buy 6 copies of autocad just to be able to use it in the bedroom or the den. If I were to play half-life the game I would not want to buy a copy for everyone of my kids either. But if there using it online then its more than a home monopoly set and I don't mind buying another one. Now I'm talking at home now not bussines.

Bada Bing · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 9:55 am Post subject:

As I understand the Software License issue it is NOT a problem to load the same software on multiple PC's without a multiple site license as long as only one PC at a time is running that piece of code. So if you have something on a PC in the kitchen and that PC is not using the peice of software and you have another PC in the Bedroom that is IT IS OK. It is only if you run both at the same time that you are violating the Software License.

But don't worry I don't know any Software cops and if I did I sure would tell them anything. With a name like Bada Bing or my real name (Bucchieri) for that matter the coppers are off limits. HAHAHAHA

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Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

Never Mind....

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Kronic · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 3:15 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem so just hear me out. Did you download a friends copy of halflife coz if you did then that's the reason. U r using their CD key buy your own copy.

DukeNukem · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2001 4:09 pm Post subject:

Bada Bing · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2001 1:38 pm Post subject:

I am going to buy a second copy. It is just the best way to go it's only $20.00 or so.
Thanks ALL
Robert u can kill this thread if you want.