it took only 25 years, but i finally have my own personal copy of bleem!
if you've never heard of bleem!, that's probably because it was such a brief, but bright, blip in the emulation world back in the late 90s.
it did what most people thought impossible in 1999: playing PS1 games on your PC (or DreamCast using bleemCast), at a decent speed.
you could download the demo/shareware edition of bleem for free, but in order to unlock the full version, you needed the physical cd-rom which acted as a software dongle or key.
it was infamously difficult to copy the disc at the time. instead of using "bad sectors" to fool cd burners into aborting a cd copy, the disc used actual physical rings pressed into the surface.
2 media files
@vga256 I thought my PC at that time was meeting Bleem's requirements but I think these were like minimum and a lot more (more than I had) was needed to run PS1 games with a decent experience... So I just archived Bleem on a shelf.