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From: gimme@solan1.solan.unit.no (Olav Gimmestad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: DM and F18 on Hard Drive
Keywords: Install Dungeon Master and F/A-18
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.153700.15957@idt.unit.no>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:37:00 GMT
References: <142772@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2293@moscom.UUCP> <2148@nyx.UUCP>
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Reply-To: gimme@solan1.solan.unit.no (Olav Gimmestad)
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In article <2148@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:
|> In article <2293@moscom.UUCP> mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett) writes:
|> >In article <142772@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jasonf@cetemp.Eng.Sun.COM (Jason Freund) writes:
|> >>	I want to instal Dungeon Master and F/A-18 Interceptor
|> >>on the hard drive of my 3000/25-50.
|> >
|> >I also would like the info for installing F/A 18 Inteceptor on a hard drive.
|> 
|> I can't help the first poster with DM, but F-18 is easy to fix.
|> 
|> First, the standard notice:  DO NOT DO THIS ON YOUR ORIGINAL.  USE A COPY.
|> 
|> The F-18 disk is not copy protected in any way (yay) but there are
|> hardcoded calls to DF0: all over the code.  So all you have to do is load
|> the 300+K executable into a text editor which won't choke on it like Cygnus
|> Ed and replace all instances of the four characters "DF0:" with whatever
|> else you want (same length!).  I used "F18:" and then simply assigned F18:
|> to the directory on my HD where I put the files.  
|>  
|> Make sure you're not going through replaceing them yourself - get the
|> text editor to do it, that way you're sure you haven't changed anything
|> else.  If you keep it the same length, it will still work.  Note that there
|> are around 33 occurances of the text "DF0:" in the file
|> 
|> .                            <<<<Infinite K>

	It's quite easy:
	Copy your disk's contents to a hard-drive

COPY df0: dh0:mydir all

	Then include this in your startup-sequence

assign remove df0:
assign df0: dh0:mydir

	Then the program will search for files on the hard disk!!


	Olav Gimmestad