Abe's Exoddus PAL crashing error - Sollution

[Havoc]

Ofcourse the entire forum is completely into Stranger at the moment. But let me address a much older problem. Its been a long while since I last was here, so maybe the problem is already fixed.
I remember a time though, when there were a lot of problems from ppl with the PAL (Europian) version of Abe's Exoddus. It will not work on Windows XP/2000 and above. A lot of posts were made about it in the help forum, but all the replies were either from ppl over in America from which it worked just fine, or from fellow ppl who had the same problem. Never was there realy a sollution.
But now, today it just hit me. And only the guy up there knows why I havn't thought of it before.

If one were to have the American version of the game (Can't remember the name for it) one could make an ISO image of the game CD's using a program like alcohol 120% or blindwrite. This ISO image is a direct copy of the game disc stored on the hard disc, which can be loaded into CD-rom simulation programs like Deamon Tools.
In theory, if you re-install the game and run it again, it should work just fine.
Ofcourse, this is in theory. If anyone would like to help me test this out we might have found a good alternative to playing Abe's Exoddus once again.

The question that remains ofcourse is: Isn't this illigal? Technicly no, since you only make yourself a backup of the game and pass this backup to someone els who also has an official bought copy of the game. Thus the only catch to spreading the ISO image to someone would be that this persone would have to prove he/she owns the original game.

Does this sound like a good or a bad plan, and would anyone be interested in helping me test out the theory into practise?

Havoc

[Gretin]

I don't know whether I could help with this, but I want to say this:
You said:

but all the replies were either from ppl over in America from which it worked just fine, or from fellow ppl who had the same problem.

Not quite, I'm from New Zealand and it works on XP fine, and there was one or two others in the thread who weren't in America but had it working fine on XP.
I have no idea of the reason, but if you know a way we can try your idea, I'd be happy to help. (As long as you can find some way of getting people to prove they already have the game.)

[Alpha]

You should have started a poll with this. The question could have been: Did my info help?

Yet you didn't so no credit for you

[Leto]

Thooper helpful rite thur, Alpha.

My AE on PC is running fine... And I'm in the same general vicinity as Gretin. Mabye only some versions of PAL..? I thought PC games weren't affected by PAL and NTSC. I've bought games over the internet, and they have worked fine... Ho hum.

Oh yeah, I'm running Windoze2000. My friends XP it didn't work on, though. Sparking even more questions...

What about MAC OSX users? Sparking even more questions...