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My Keyboard Broke NBA Live 2005
September 17, 2026 ~8 min read

Getting NBA Live 2005 running on a second Windows 11 machine broke in two places the first one never did: SafeDisc needed a single CPU core, and a modern keyboard's fifteen HID collections corrupted a 2004 input parser.

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NBA Live 2005 in 2026
September 7, 2026 ~9 min read

Getting a 2004 basketball game running on Windows 11: a security fix that broke copy protection, a controller that was never missing, a flicker that took five wrong guesses, and a graphics stack built for Linux.

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