Herpes

1/20/2019 11:39:06 PM

When I was an adolescent, we got a CD-ROM full of demos of computer games. There was a little game on there that had something to do with a model train or a dollhouse or something, can't really remember anymore, and it was actually a timed trial: the full version of the game limited to an hour of play.

It wasn't my normal thing, but I quite liked it and was disappointed when the trial ran out. After the hour, you couldn't relaunch the game. It would display a message saying the trial had expired.

I'd been learning a lot about computers, so I thought about how the check must have worked. Even after uninstalling the game, a reinstall did not refresh the timer, so the game must have left some trace on the computer. But I couldn't find any file or registry key that seemed relevant to the game, and I didn't know then how to trace a process's disk & registry accesses. The idea that some game demo could just leave its mark on my computer permanently bothered me.

Never did figure that one out. Can't remember enough about the game to find it now, so I guess I never will.

1/21/2019 7:30:09 AM

>things
>only names 1 thing

[Edited on January 21, 2019 at 6:15 PM. Reason : then again, I guess maybe herpes is plural, or something :3]

1/21/2019 6:10:12 PM