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## Bookshelf for Windows (1991)

Once I had CD-ROM support limping along, I decided to try **Bookshelf for Windows** on Windows 3.1.

![Bookshelf for Windows 1991](https://cds005.pcjs.org/microsoft/reference/Bookshelf-Windows-1991/BSWIN91.png)

And initially, things looked very promising:

![Bookshelf for Windows 1991 - Install 1 of 4](/blog/images/BSWIN31-Install1of4.png)
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## Pandora's Box (1999)

In other recent, coincidental, and entirely unrelated news, a friend was trying to create a preservation
copy of a 20-year-old Microsoft CD-ROM entertainment title called **Pandora's Box**. There were no problems
cloning the CD-ROM, and the software would install fine from the clone, but when it was run, it would either
crash or display "Please insert the correct CD-ROM....", depending on the machine and operating system
copy of a 20-year-old Microsoft CD-ROM entertainment title called **Pandora's Box**.

![Pandora's Box](https://cds001.pcjs.org/microsoft/games/Pandoras-Box/Pandoras-Box.png)

There were no problems cloning the CD-ROM, and the software would install fine from the clone, but when it was run,
it would either crash or display "Please insert the correct CD-ROM....", depending on the machine and operating system
being used.

![Pandora's Box - Unpatched](https://cds001.pcjs.org/microsoft/games/Pandoras-Box/WindowsXP-PandorasBox-ISO-Unpatched.png)

This led one to believe there was something wrong with the copy -- and there was, because it turns out
that **Pandora's Box** was one many software titles from the late 1990s that used a third-party copy-protection
that **Pandora's Box** was one of many software titles from the late 1990s that used a third-party copy-protection
technology called "SafeDisc". Suffice to say that if the game's EXE file was accompanied by an ICD file,
along with other files such as CLOKSPL.EXE, then it's a safe bet the CD-ROM was protected by SafeDisc.

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of virtual environment -- a scenario that has tended to get more attention and hand-wringing lately, with the
recent rise and fall of various Internet-enabled games.

In the case of **Pandora's Box**, the [CD insert](https://cds001.pcjs.org/microsoft/games/Pandoras-Box/Pandoras_Box.pdf)
In the case of **Pandora's Box**, the [CD insert](https://cds001.pcjs.org/microsoft/games/Pandoras-Box/Pandoras-Box.pdf)
said to visit [http://www.microsoft.com/games/pandorasbox](http://www.microsoft.com/games/pandorasbox).

That's a dead end now, but at least it's a starting point. The problem I ran into with **Bookshelf
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