llad@ur-tut.UUCP (06/25/86)
A few days ago someone posted a set of patches that could be applied to Megaroids and Space War to get them running on the MacPlus. These patches work (at least on Megaroids, I don't have SpaceWar) and much gratitude is given to the poster of the patches. Just for the fun of it I tried the patches on Frogger, and guess what, Frogger now runs on the MacPlus as well. The point to this article: the patches posted for Megaroids will also work for Frogger. In fact, only the sound buffer and main screen buffer need to be patched. I'll summarize the patches again (I wonder what other programs can be fixed with these): Megaroids & Frogger: Change all 0007 fd00 to 000f fd00 (sound buffer) Change all 0007 a700 to 000f a700 (main screen buffer) Megaroids: Change all 0007 2700 to 000f 2700 (alternate screen buffer) Change all 0007 7c80 to 000f 7c80 (disk I/O buffer) Again, thanks to the original poster of these patches. Enjoy! /Dennis
llad@ur-tut.UUCP (06/25/86)
I just posted an article in which I noted the patches posted for Megaroids also worked for Frogger for getting it running on the MacPlus. The thought just struck me, was this proper? I mean, Frogger is a commercial product. Should I have notified everyone the patches work for Frogger? The manufacturer of Frogger has told a friend of mine that the programmer who implemented Frogger left the company and that they had no way to fix the code to get it running on the Plus. This implies there would not be an update available from the company, so is posting patches OK? Any comments? /Dennis
jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) (06/27/86)
In article <459@ur-tut.UUCP> llad@ur-tut.UUCP (Dennis Venable) writes: >I just posted an article in which I noted the patches posted for Megaroids >also worked for Frogger for getting it running on the MacPlus. The thought >just struck me, was this proper? ... Sure, I think so. The only "problem" there may be is tangling with those "cannot modify" clauses in licensing agreements. But then, I never agree with them. :-) Flip side, joe piazza --- Cogito cogito ergo equus sum. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 (716) 636-3191, 3180 UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!jmpiazza CS: jmpiazza@buffalo-cs BI: jmpiazza@sunybcs