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From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Marauder Brain File
Message-ID: <1477@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 18 Apr 89 21:46:27 GMT
References: <424@sequoia.UUCP> <7470015@hp-lsd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <7470015@hp-lsd.HP.COM> paulc@hp-lsd.HP.COM (Paul Carroll) writes:
>	By the way, has anyone got ARCHON or ARCHON II to work
>	in either V1.2 or V1.3?  Since I have these programs
>	and a 2000, it seems a shame to just let them sit around
>	gathering dust.  If there is some way of getting these to
>	run, please let me know.  Thanks,

	I have been trying to do this for a LONG time.  Supposedly,
there is a Public Domain utility called FIXBOOT.ARC or maybe FIXEA.ARC
that fixes some Electronic Arts games to work under 1.2.  Actually,
the problem isn't 1.2... it's the presence of expansion (FAST) RAM.
I had the games running under 1.2 just fine until I bought my StarboardII.

	In frustration, I wrote to Electronic Arts, asking them how I
might modify the bootblock of the disk to prevent expansion RAM from 
being seen.  EA wrote back saying that it is their official policy not
to assist users in modifying their software.  Normally, I would agree 
with this policy, but with Archon & Archon II being "dead" products
(EA has officially announced that they will not upgrade them to work 
with 1.2/expansion RAM), it is kind of silly!

	Maybe some enterprising hacker can figure out how to modify
that bootblock; it is totally non-standard, though.  I've tried all
those programs that make your disks boot without seeing expansion
RAM, but they don't work.
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