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From: drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How to do away with Imagine.pic (was: Help! I need Imagine.pic!)
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.183202.13726@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 18:32:02 GMT
References: <90347.104727DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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I too had a corrupted Imagine.pic file and not being one to just sit back
and wait for the mail while my multi-hundred dollar program collected dust,
I was able to "hack" that damn image out of the code.  This way even if you
have the pic, you can do away with it's time overhead too.  (BTW, you will
have to remove or rename the Imagine.pic file as I think if it is there and
not corrupt after my fix, you'll get the same symptoms as we got with a corrupt
file):

Use NewZap or similar sector editing program.
 
For the floating point version:
 
         Load block 373,
         locate two occurence of $1830,
         change $66 after first $1830 to $67
         save block 373
         (make sure Image.pic is absent or renamed)
 
for integer version:
 
         Load block 376
         locate two occurcnes of $189c
         change $66 after first $1830 to $67
         save block 376
         (make sure Image.pic is absent or renamed)
 
This hack courtesy of:  Rick Tillery
 

Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)