I realize now that I made a major blunder. I erased my earlier post, and I am removing the file from my website. I hope those of you that already downloaded the file will be honorable with it, and not make the same mistake that I just did.

Can you please e-mail the crack.
I own the game since it came out in 1998.

Thank you very very much,

emil@pandora.be

Would you please mail it to me?
vvatne@hotmail.com

robshaw@madasafish.com

marcsinclair@cwcom.net

Best thing anyone could come out with!
Shame on you MPS for being so stingy with your software...

I also have a legal copy of EAW (what other way of doing my bit to help the sim genre survival?), but I'd like to save myself the hassle of swapping CDs into the tray.

Could anyone (Bigshot?) send me the file, please?

E-mail: flipper@davidml.globalnet.co.uk

Gonna try it out right now!

This is a flightsim site not crackers central. Nobody wil be looking here for the latest cracks. The original EAW CD can be copied without a problem by any standard CD Writer which is much more conveniant than copying the whole CD to Hard disk.

Time to put away the CD.

Thanks Donster,
Your a bleedin' marvel.

Then put your CD away for safe keeping.

S!

MPS,

you really are pathetic...

Access times are faster due to the fact that it does not have to utililize the slower cd drive.

You will need a FULL install of the sim for it to work.
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I reckon MPS management`s strategy was :
We will let people use no cd with Falcon4
because it will only appeal to a small minority(Less to lose)....
We will not allow it in EAW because it will appeal to a majority(more to lose).....

What the hell planet are you management boys on?
You have an option to make the game faster(access times),and to do away with the hasle of inserting the disk each time to play ,not to mention the damage that eventually happens to it(scracthes etc).

So if any of you suckers are reading this thread:

1)make it official
2)Release the game code to some of the talent on this forum so that they can improvethe sim.

It works first time but when I go back to EAW again it asks for the disc.

Help me please.

Couple questions,

1.) Did you have a full install before applying the crack, its needed and will not work correctly without it. If you don't remember I would suggest un-installing and then re-installing EAW.

2.) Did you follow the directions in the readme exactly? Before applying the crack, you need to run the plain jane EAW 1.2 (no addons) first to set everything up correctly. Afterwards you apply the patch. Did you do this?

3.) What version of EAW are you running, the US or a European version. I only tested the crack out with the US version so I am unaware of how it will work with any others.

Sorry 1 more question,

Did you make the change to your eaw.ini file?

You needed to do the following:

Add/replace the following in your EAW.INI file...

[Miscellaneous]
Debug Flags=0
Debug Path=.\

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C/O, Jagdgeschwader 5 'Eismeer'

I am rather depressed today, my phone bill arrived! I know I spend a bit of time on the Net, but good god.
I refuse to show my wife the bill!

Just go into your EAW folder, in there will be a notepad file labeled EAW, open it and
under miscellaneous make the changes to DEBUG Flag and DEBug Path.It tells you the change in the notepad of the crack.

Go to your Windows Explorer

Find your Main EAW Directory

The default should be under

C:/Program Files/Microprose Software/European Air War

Locate the file eaw.ini (it should look like a little note pad with a small gold seal on it, it does anyway in my version of Windows98)

Double Click on it and it should open up in as a notebook file.

Scroll Down till you find the header
[Miscellaneous]

Then make sure it reads exactly as whats listed below.

[Miscellaneous]
Debug Flags=0
Debug Path=.\

Then save the file and your done.

GW

It's perfect.

If you have allready installed EAW in full,
just apply the no cd crack(fix/cracking the code).If you have not installed eaw in full,I would imagine you could reinstall just the missing coponents from the disk(not sure on this though,maybe my collegues could confirm this?)

Also, I'm still confused by the above. I have a full install with 1.2 and all the other goodies. Do I need to reinstall eaw and 1.2 and then unzip the crack and then reinstall everything else? (eca, skins, etc.) Doesn't sound right?

If you already have a complete install, you do not have to uninstall and reinstall. Plus you do not have to mess with removing any add-ons.I just unzipped the crack into a temp file, read the notepad instructions, copy the eaw.exe file in to the eaw folder,
and then you open your eaw.ini file,scroll down to [miscellaneous], then add/replace the following into your ini file:

Debug Flags=0
Debug Path=.\

Hope this helps.