CD really has a strong protection called Starforce 3 (a.k.a. Professional) ... but nothing is impossible Original CD can be copied to CD-R or CD-RW media with special software. But you cannot run this game from this media in CD-RW drive (in 99% cases IDE CD-ROM/DVD-ROM only). Also you can run the game with .exe & sounds.res from demo ver without any CD checks ... but without some sounds. Sorry for my english. Delete this message if it breaks your forum's rules. P.S. Has anyone got nocd? :roll: