Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: WARNING -- Interceptor Patch (warning is unnecessary) Message-ID: <9829@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 4 Jul 88 23:53:53 GMT References: <3207@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 55 In article <3207@louie.udel.EDU> smith@nrl-aic.arpa (Russ Smith) writes: >[posted to the generic ARPANET amiga-relay list] I did not post it to the generic ARPANET amiga-relay list. I posted it to Usenet just like this one, and it was gatewayed over there. I take no responsibility for anything I post that goes outside the Usenet domain without my knowledge. >Recently a "patch" for the brain-damaged F/A-18 Interceptor copy >"protection" was posted (S. Casey was the poster). This patch will only >work if the version of Interceptor you have is the one that >this patch was written for. Well, there is only one version known at this date, so it is about 99% likely to work on everyone's copy. >If ONE BYTE is different, you get a destroyed copy. This might be true, and probably is, but I'm nitpicking and saying that it isn't necessarily true. Besides, I TOLD EVERYONE to use a backup copy. This extra warning is unnecessary. But, if you apply the patch and it blows up, put your original disk in drive zero, the copy in drive one, and: copy df0:"F-18 Interceptor" df1: Now that wasn't so bad. >A "better" patch program would check the context of >the changed locations FIRST, verifying that things are the same, THEN >changing the locations. That's true. It's still easier than newzap, isn't it. >Though I know of no "other" versions of >Interceptor out there, it IS possible, so caution is suggested. All >zeroed out values should have been 0xF prior to change and you should >NEVER modify your original. Be sure to make that copy and modify the copy >only. Like I said, I TOLD EVERYONE TO USE A BACKUP COPY! This warning is redundant. >[Note that one "bug fix" on EA's part is sufficient to render that >patch program invalid. Bug fixes do not necessarily result in new version >numbers...] Not necessarily. It may or may not work in the future. We'll just have to whip up another patch, won't we? Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** The IPCF Roto-Rooter man. {backbone|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA Internet site? "talk sean@g.ms.uky.edu" *** ``I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.''