CD Key location

[reverend]

The UNIX way would be a .key file.

I think the registry in itself isn't so bad, it's just implemented terribly. After all, you store most ini files in /etc on Linux, the Windows registry is simply a more annoying way to do the same.

[Bluebird]

Sorry that I have to object, but

• System backup is much more difficult.
• The naming conventions in the registry are quite strange and most of the time it is hard to find the correct key.
• Simple copy operations are not sufficient to transfer a software installation from one machine to another.
• Manual software deinstallation requires a complex knowledge of used keys and is nearly impossible.
• ...

In general it is not understandable why two disjoint hierarchies (file system and registry) are needed to store information. Having two concepts instead of one increases the complexity of the system in an unnecessary way.

[reverend]

That's why I said it's implemented VERY badly.

[Ed Kolis]

I just switched to Linux and now I can't find my key - there isn't even any key file! Is this because I have an old copy of Dominions from before the keys were required? If so, am I screwed until I can find my manual?
edit: ah, nevermind, I found it on the Windows installation on my old machine

[Bluebird]

The key might either be in the global installation directory (/usr/local/games/dominions2) or in your local dominions2 directory (~/dominions2) ... in my case it is in the local one. That it because Linux is made for the multi-user-operations, so there are always two places to check