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From: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transformer software patches.
Summary: Well, Fix68010 was *supposed* to work...
Message-ID: <7600@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 89 05:01:22 GMT
References: <8416.AA8416@heimat> <1293@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell)
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In article <1293@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>From article <8416.AA8416@heimat>, by sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein):
>> 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

[ME: Remember to preface these strings by a '$' so NewZap knows it is a
 Hex string, and NOT a text string...  ie. $40c2, $40c4, etc. ...
 Got bit by this one in my eagerness to get this sucker fixed....]

>While this will certainly work, there is a much less painful method. A
>while back I found a program called Fix68010 that will do a search-and-
                                     ^^^^^^^^
>replace for the offending strings in any binary. It didn't work with
>Falcon, but it does work with Transformer, and almost everything else I
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland    580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108

Sorry to muddy the waters on this, but I have been doing this very same
thing 'behind the scenes' even going so far as getting PSTransformer from
the guy that Dan was replying to (hello R'ykander Korra'ti!) which only
works with 1.1 Transformer.  I have Transformer 1.2, which chokes when
the Transformer goes to boot DOS..(ugh!)  well, a friend of mine HERE at 
B.S.U. HAS Fix68010 and gave me a copy, and well....  it found 190 occurances
of *something* and changed them, but after running the 'fixed' version,
it only came up correctly ONCE, booted DOS, asked for the date, I typed; 
nothing, hit EVERY key, still no response...  the only thing that got a 
response out of the machine was C-A-A...  tried again, it did the same thing
it did BEFORE running Fix68010, asked for DOS, then bombed back to asking
for WorkBench... sooo...  in with NewZap to change hex bytes...  which
worked *FINE* the first time running it after the fix.  I did not keep an
accurate count but, I do not think (IMO) that I changed 190 occurances
of the strings in the file 'at1.'  Which brings me to MY questions, 1)which
version of Transformer did YOU/ANYBODY (who got Fix68010 to work..) use?
2)What version was DAN referring to?  I found NO Hex 40c4 strings in the
file 'at1'...  found plenty of Hex 40c2/6/7's but no 4's in 'at1'

Ah well, my suggestion is to *TRY* Fix68010 with a grain of salt, if it
works, "GREAT" but if not, re-copy 'at1' to your 'working disk' and do
Dan's fix on it...  that *I* know works...



                                  
                                  David C. Powell
                                  M.I.S. Senior
                                  Ball State University
                                  Muncie, Indiana


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