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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transformer software patches.
Message-ID: <8416.AA8416@heimat>
Date: 1 Jun 89 00:15:34 GMT
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In Message <11785@s.ms.uky.edu>, phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:

>     I have now installed a 68010 in my Amiga 500, and I would like to find
>a patch that would allow the Transformer to run properly on it. I've tried
>PSTransformer, but that doesn't work - it gets to the point of asking for
>a DOS disk (with a bad memory count, by the way) but refuses to accept
>anything as an MS-DOS disk.
>     I know there is at least one other programme to handle this out there.
>Can anyone point me in its direction? 

 I am not a user of Transformer and offer this fix/patch for those who
feel they can not upgrade because of losing Transformer. No longer must
they suffer! If you were to install DeciGel on your Transformer disk 
and make the proper call to activate DeciGel when booting your machine, 
it would be lost as your Amiga resets itself when starting Transformer.
So what do you do? A simple fix/patch to your Transformer program will
solve the problem. This requires the use of a binary file editor, sorry
but Commodore did not supply one with your Amiga. Like DeciGel the best
place to obtain a file editor is the Public Domain. I prefer NewZap 3.0,
it is available on Fish disk #58. The instrucions that follow assume
that that you are familiar with using NewZap. Make a backup copy of your
Transformer disk. Place the original disk back in the Transformer box,
we will fix/patch the copy you just made. Put the copy in drive "x" and
start NewZap with the command:

	1> newzap dfx:at1

Press return. Using the search function of NewZap (Amiga-Z and Amiga-C),
change all occurances of these hex strings:

	40c2, 40c4, 40c6, 40c7

change each respectively to:

	42c2, 42c4, 42c6, 42c7

This means that 40c2 will become 42c2, 40c4 becomes 42c4, ect, ect....
There are quite a few (I mean alot!) of changes to be made, so relax
take your time and remember to save each disk block as you go. 

 What you have for all this work is a copy of Transformer that will
work with a MC68010. Please note that after Transformer is modified in
this fashion, it will *NOT* run on a MC68000 machine. (Thats why we made
a copy, didn't we?)

>     Thanks...

U R Welcome ;-)

Sneakers

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