hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) (09/07/87)
I recently received instructions from the new owners of Batteries Included (Electronic Arts) on how to fix their useful Calendar DA to work with the latest System File (4.1), and am passing them on to other people who might want to fix this DA: 1. Use FEdit (version 3.05 is available free from the sumex-info-mac bulletin) to open the desk accessory (this is best done with both FEdit and Calenda DA on a floppy to protect the hard disk). 2. go to the OPTIONS menu and select Hex Search...; search for the string 2D40 FFD6 (the space should be included). 3. Once found, go to the EDIT menu and select Hex Modify, then simply type 2D48 4. Go to the EDIT menu and select Write Sector 5. at the bottome of the screen, grab the box and drag it back to the left side of the bar (i.e., go back to beginning of the disk) 6. go once again to the OPTIONS menu and select Hex Search...; this time search for 2D40 FFDA 7. Once found, go to the EDIT menu and select Hex Modify and type: 2D48 8. Go to EDIT menu and select Write Sector. 9. This finishes the modifications, go to the FILE menu and choose Close then Quit. The people from Electronic Arts also said that a new 'more powerful' set of DA's would be released in a month or two to replace the BatteryPak package.
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (09/08/87)
In article <10189@duke.cs.duke.edu> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes: >I recently received instructions from the new owners of Batteries Included > (Electronic Arts) on how to fix their useful Calendar DA to work with >the latest System File (4.1), and am passing them on to other people >who might want to fix this DA: Or, you could use Calendar 1.9, the shareware Calendar program that is data file compatible with the BatteryPak Calendar, but it works. (Caution: when your BatteryPak Calendar program crashed, it may have scrambled the data file so that Calendar 1.9 can neither use it nor repair it. If you remove "Calendar File" from your system folder, Calendar 1.9 will create a fresh one.) Calendar 1.9 is supported, that is why it is shareware. David Oster Mosaic Codes Suite 2036 2140 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94740
gross@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Evan Gross [Sys Des]) (09/09/87)
Thanks for posting the patch to the net. For those with a sector editor other than FEdit, the patch summarizes to the following: Search for: 2D40 FFD6 and change it to: 2D48 FFD6 and then search for: 2D40 FFDA and change it to: 2D48 FFDA. Use FEdit or some other sector editor to accomplish this. Use Font/DA Mover to create a new file and move JUST the Calendar desk accessory into it. Perform the changes on that file, then re-install. And yes, it is true, there will finally be a major update to the BatteryPak package. It will be renamed and re-packaged, and will ship October 23rd. The new name of the package is "DiskTools Plus", and is named as such to highlight the totally new version of the DiskTools DA (called DiskTools II)}i. This new version does all that DiskTop does and much more, and is far faster and easier to use. All the other DAs have been re-vamped as well. Hope this info helps, Evan Gross (Author of BatteryPak & DiskTools Plus)