Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!convex!egsner!pfloyd!greg From: greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: WANTED: F/A-18, Battlechess, Faery Tale PATCHES Distribution: world References: <1991Jun29.171854.10137@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 30 Jun 91 04:45:52 CDT Organization: Not much... In article <1991Jun29.171854.10137@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > > greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) writes: > >> In the case of Faery Tale, the on-disk protection >> is removed so that I can install the game on my HD >> (I've only heard once that such a patch exists, >> but since the game is so disk-intensive I'd like >> to get it). > >Drool! Could this possibly be true? I'd _love_ to >patch one of my _3_ store bought copies (it's a long >story) to play from hard disk, since I tried to play >this _great_ game over and found I've totally lost >my patience for playing from floppies since I got a >hard drive and started playing games from it. > >That has to be a heck of a patch, since FTA has hidden >files, probably proprietary compression, etc. Well, I've only heard that the patch exists. That's obviously not much to go on. I did, however, get FreeCopy from Fish Disk 498 and remove the on-disk protection. Now I can play from a backup instead of the original. I think it also makes the "manual" protection (completing the phrases from the map) accept any answer, so you can just hit . I usually just automatically type the answers, but I think I goofed on one and it still worked... Here's what I've tried: I took the backup (non-protected) disk and diskcopied it to RAD:. I then went in with NewZap and changed all the references to df0: to sys:. It made it as far as the storybook, but no farther. Incidentally, I tried just copying the files from the non-protected version to my HD and running it from there, too. That had the same result. I guess part of the hidden code is referencing the floppy at some point. When I stick a disk in the drive goes mad looking for stuff, but it never quite finds it. I guess I'll get out the disk editor and see what I can find. I expect, like Kent said, that it's compressed in some way. I don't figure I'll find much, but it's worth a try... This looks like a job for someone who likes to pour through other's code [i.e. NOT ME! :) ]. BTW, FreeCopy also took care of F/A-18 for me (see the Subject: line). I'm still looking for a patch for BattleChess. Anyone? Anyone?! >Kent, the man from xanth. > >-- >Convener, rec.arts.sf.* grand reorganization. What a busy man! Whatcha gonna reorganize next? ;) -- -------greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org---greg@pfloyd.UUCP---egsner!pfloyd!greg------- "How I wish. How I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year. Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here." -- Pink Floyd