Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!gatech!udel!mmdf From: smith@nrl-aic.arpa (Russ Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: WARNING -- Interceptor Patch Message-ID: <3207@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 4 Jul 88 14:37:25 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 17 [posted to the generic ARPANET amiga-relay list] 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. If ONE BYTE is different, you get a destroyed copy. A "better" patch program would check the context of the changed locations FIRST, verifying that things are the same, THEN changing the locations. 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. [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...]