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Subject: Misc.
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Date: 29 Feb 88 17:59:00 GMT
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Miscellaneous stuff:

Crack:
Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure
Synergistic Software
recently on Softdisk

   When I bought my Apple (early 1980), Odyssey and Zork I were the best games
available.  But you couldn't play Odyssey without Integer BASIC or 64K, so I
never did until Softdisk put it on a disk in Applesoft ($10 - $5 coupon if you
are a Softdisk contributor).

   The game is still fun, but just too hard. I needed help. Like my drill
sergeant said, "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying." To cheat I had to
defeat Softdisk's wimpy protection.

   Anyway, if you have Demuffin Plus:
1. Initialize a disk.
2. Write a sector starting with 01 AD E8 C0 4C 59 FF or something to stop
the drive & halt bootup to T0 S0.
3. Boot Odyssey.
4. Put in the noboot disk & press reset. It will load T0S0 to $800-8FF, but
won't overwrite the protected DOS.
5. *2000<9000.BFFFM     Move DOS out of way
6. Boot normal disk.
7. ]BLOAD DEMUFFIN PLUS,A$803
8. ]CALL-151
9. *9000<2000.4FFFM     Move protected DOS back
10. *803G
11. Copy all files to blank disk with wildcard =.

To cheat, interrupt the program at any point with a ctrl-C, change variables
(ie FM = men, BG & BI & Bsomething else control inventory)

][e price: $500 sounds like a reasonable price for a IIe system, since a new
   IIe system costs about $750 and a Laser 128 about $350 (I think.)
   But why get a IIe?

Wildcard transfer: Alan & Valerie Floeter published a patch to DOS 3.3
   which allows the use of wildcards in all file operations, on p. 120-123 of
   Nibble Vol. 4 No. 4 (1983).

Fractals: Yes, you can use fractals in arcade games, or so the people at
   Lucasfilm? Software who wrote Eidolon & Rescue from Fractalus or something
   like that claim.

Preemptive multitasking: The Apple II, let us remember, is as fast as the
   original IBM PC. The IIgs is 3.5? times as fast. It is certainly fast
   enough. I don't think speed is the problem. The big problem is that
   you can't write a program which will generate interrupts on the II
   (can you on the IIgs?) There is a 1-wire hardware mod that will cause
   the apple to generate 60 interrupts or so per second, I think it was in
   Micro about 4 years ago.

Write protection: It is hardware. You CANNOT write to a write-pro:{ected disk.
The fellow who said you could was probably think of protected disks, which are
different.
   I modified my Apple 5 1/4 drive so I can override the write
protection or pretend a disk is write protected. I can post schematics
if anyone is interested, but not for a few weeks.

Phil Goetz