I am sorry for giving out such a giant complain here but it has to be said.
I can't give you download links here because of some stupid administrators, who will just remove them because they are trying to protect the copyright of a 20-year old game, that doesn't have download links available anymore on their own official website.
When Battlefield 1942 was still freely available in 2012 on the official EA origin website they even removed their own legit CD key system.
Because they couldn't deal with the coding issue to actually check for a legit key on the gamespy, when the official servers were still around.
So what is Electronic Arts answer instead of actually giving out official CD keys in 2012 they gave fake cd keys and change the bf1942.exe to version 1.62. this was splitting our community into half we now had the official CD key users with CD rom and the unofficial users with Origin download.
This single action by Electronic Arts was forcing our community to make hybrid servers to no longer check for legit CD keys so both official CD key owners and origin users could join the same game.
Then in 2014 the gamespy close the official servers because they didn't have money to keep running them.
Electronic Arts official statement was that due to the technical challenges it was not possible to save battlefield 1942 official master server please see. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-12-50-ea-games-will-have-their-servers-shut-down
So this single action forced our community to make our own master server which wasn't even that hard we now have our own community run master server.
Then one year later in 2015 Microsoft removed safedisk DRM from Windows 7, 8, 10,
this forced official CD key owners to have a No CD key check bf1942.exe running on there computer.
Now as time whent on no legit copies were available in shops anymore.
Because bf1942 is a multiplayer game our community was forced to adept.
so our community is supporting the game actually making a new bf1942.exe that doesn't require safedisc DRM,
which is not available in Windows 10 our community made our own master server we are trying to keep the game alive.
But the * administrators at EA games here don't allow me to post links anymore here to protect the copyright of a 20-year old game
which they do not give support for any more, and doesn't have legit CD keys anymore and the copies which are legit no can longer have safedisc DRM
oh my god ea lol. So EA * you.
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