

- #HOW TO PLAY BEACH HEAD 2000 ON WINDOWS XP UPGRADE#
- #HOW TO PLAY BEACH HEAD 2000 ON WINDOWS XP SOFTWARE#
I haven't torn the PC open to see what kind of RAM it needs to upgrade it, so for now I'm just being careful about how much I tax the computer at once. I *believe* this is just a memory issue (or lack of) and can be fixed by either upgraded the RAM or just being careful about how many tasks you are doing at once.

Now that you are around the watchdog, the other "hiccup" in the process is that if you start poking around in anything or running other programs the computer likes to just flat out reboot. The second thing is that the watchdog is supposed to talk to the control input board, but it was never coded properly and doesn't work. This is easily defeated for 2 reasons, first of if you open task manager and kill the process it is out of your way. There are 2 different things to work around, 1) there is a watchdog program running that was originally intended to reboot the game in case it crashed, so that it wouldn't be a dead game on location.

Not too hard to do, but these PCs are a little finicky about being messed with.
#HOW TO PLAY BEACH HEAD 2000 ON WINDOWS XP SOFTWARE#
To "defeat" the protection you essentially use a "middle-man interception" to take the handshake the software does, copy it, and then place that into a program that will then emulate the dongle and feed the info to the program. Basically they are just HASP4 USB dongles that were defeated long ago. There were 7 different games made for these cabinets and each had their own security dongle, along with the offering of "multi-game" dongles. The first project I am going to tackle is the beating the security protecting the games.
