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From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Videx FunPack (vintage 1985)
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Date: 8 Mar 90 05:48:46 GMT
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In article <4086@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford) writes:
>
>For years - good grief - I've enjoyed playing Klondike, from the Videx
...
>Vagaries? The <expletive> program insists on a hard reset on quitting. It
...
>Does anyone (a) remember this program and - holds breath.. (b) know of
>any way I can defeat its desire to reboot every time I leave it? I do
>have a kosher copy, for what that's worth; are Videx still around?

I remember fixing some of their programs to be better behaved, but it
was a while ago.  I disassembled it, located the place where it did
the hard reset (by branching to a suitable place in low memory), and
then I patched the program by replacing the branch by an ExittoShell.

Not very difficult if you know how to use MacNosy and FEdit, but
otherwise ...




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