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From: gator@rpiacm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Need help, Balance of Power run from RAM?
Message-ID: <340@rpiacm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 19:44:34 EST
Article-I.D.: rpiacm.340
Posted: Sun Apr 12 19:44:34 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 00:37:51 EST
References: <1830@vax135.UUCP>
Organization: RPI-ACM Student Access Unix. Troy, NY
Lines: 35
Keywords: BOP, fixhunk

In article <1830@vax135.UUCP>, cjp@vax135.UUCP writes:
> Has anyone succeeded in modifying the game, Balance of Power, to run
> from RAM rather than disk?

Haven't tried this myself (will try it as soon as I get offline) bumt
if you look at the BOP disc there's a dir called `cbm' which seems to
contain most of the country info. You could probably manage to copy
this dir into RAMdisk, bumt making BOP look for it there is something
else (it probably looks for BOP:cbm/). You might try assigning BOP: to
VD0: (or whatever you use), but make sure you remove the BOP disc.
There's probably a way to hack it in with NewZap, maybe later tonite if
I *really* don't want to write my German paper I'll give it a shot ;-).

> I tried to treat the BOP executable with "fixhunk" from some Fish disk, to
> force loading into CHIP mem, but it said 'sorry but this version can't treat
> overlay files'.  Is there perhaps a newer version around that does overlays?
> And if so, is this likely to fix things up?

FixHunk 2.0 is out, and speaking from experience it does work with BOP.
I have the internal hack and was rather annoyed when BOP booted up in
my 1 Meg system - with no pointer. However I have gotten it to work
with FH2.0. No extensive testing however since I haven't been that much
into game playing this semester. I know 2.0 is on Plink, dunno if it's
been posted here or if Fred Fish has it in his latest discs. 

 							-Ed
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