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From: felixh@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (Felix Hack)
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Subject: Latest Harpoon Patches
Summary: Now available on ab20 /incoming/amiga
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Date: 7 Apr 91 10:34:12 GMT
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  A solitary e-mail message pointing out all the mistakes I'd
made in trying to create data patches for Harpoon prompted me
to thoroughly redo them.  The latest patches are now
available on abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (128.155.23.64) in the
/incoming/amiga directory.
  For those that don't know, these patches are designed to
bring the data in Harpoon in line with reality, mostly as
stated in the Harpoon 1990-91 Data Annex (for the manual
game).  Revisions in my latest patches should fix all
sonars and radars on ships and subs.  This should make
what was a very disappointing game more bearable.  Let's
hope 360 sees fit to make an uncrippled version.  (The
current version is a port of the IBM 640K-limited game.
While I disagree with the attempted scope of the game,
what they tried to accomplish requires far more RAM 
if the game is supposed to be at all realistic.)
  The filename is harpatch1.1.lzh.  In addition to the
patches there is a text description of the hex layout
of data in Harpoon, as well as a PD file hex editor
to implement the patches and make your own.
  Hope this is of some use.
  Felix