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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Playing around inside Kickstart
Message-ID: <2460@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 16:20:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2460
Posted: Fri Oct  9 16:20:58 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:47:07 EDT
References: <15590@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: patching kickstart how-to checksum program

In article <15590@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>Patching WACK V1.004:
>
>For those who are interested, I patched WACK so that you can redirect
>output anywhere, such as a printer or disk file (defaults to AmigaDOS
>window)...best of all, this can be done by CHANGING ONLY 3 BYTES!!!!!!!!
>
>WACK automatically calls INPUT and OUTPUT, but later overwrites them
>both with the filehandle returned from the opening of the "RAW:" window.
>The "6004" is a BRA.S *+4 which skips over the writing to _STDOUT.
>Why WACK does this is a mystery; I guess it was written in a funky
>language like "C".

Ummm...it does funny things because it *already has* the ability to redirect
output.  

>THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF OTHER NEAT INSIGHTS INTO KICKSTART TO BE MADE,
>PATCHES TO BE DONE. UNFORTUNATELY, COMMODORE DOESN'T PUBLISH SOURCE
>CODE (AND THUS FORFEITS MILLIONS IN POTENTIAL PROFITS) FOR SOME
>REASON. THIS IS ONE "WHY" NO ONE CAN ANSWER, NOT EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO
>HAD THIS BRILLIANT IDEA.

Well, if you can tell me what the millions in potential profits are,
I'll be glad to listen.  Of course, if it it involves people sending
me 500,000 dollars in unmarked bills, I suspect that it wouldn't
be a good ide......actually, come to think of it *I* like this concept :-)

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