greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) (06/26/91)
Would someone please send me the patches for the games F/A-18, Battlechess, and Faery Tale Adventure which remove the copy protection? I assure you that I own a legal, original copy of each of these games, but I don't want to deal with the protection. If such patches are available on a public site, please just tell me the address and path to the files instead of mailing it to me. In the case of F/A-18 and Battlechess, the patches remove the manual copy protection. In the case of Faery Tale, the on-disk protection is removed so that I can install the game on my HD (I've only heard once that such a patch exists, but since the game is so disk-intensive I'd like to get it). I had the F/A-18 and BChess patches, but I lost them along with my failed hard disk. I didn't have them backed up -- oh well... Thanks in advance... -- ----greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org---greg@pfloyd.UUCP---convex!egsner!pfloyd!greg---- "How I wish. How I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year. Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here." -- Pink Floyd
Jason_Robertson@tvbbs.UUCP (Jason Robertson) (06/27/91)
Greg, if you try Nib 1.0 (or buy 2.0) written by Shawn Liptak (sp?), it should remove the manual and key protection from the above games. You should be able to find 1.0 on your nearest Amiga BBS. Jason Robertson
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (06/30/91)
greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) writes: > In the case of Faery Tale, the on-disk protection > is removed so that I can install the game on my HD > (I've only heard once that such a patch exists, > but since the game is so disk-intensive I'd like > to get it). Drool! Could this possibly be true? I'd _love_ to patch one of my _3_ store bought copies (it's a long story) to play from hard disk, since I tried to play this _great_ game over and found I've totally lost my patience for playing from floppies since I got a hard drive and started playing games from it. That has to be a heck of a patch, since FTA has hidden files, probably proprietary compression, etc. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> -- Convener, rec.arts.sf.* grand reorganization.
greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) (06/30/91)
In article <1991Jun29.171854.10137@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > > greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org (Greg Harp) writes: > >> In the case of Faery Tale, the on-disk protection >> is removed so that I can install the game on my HD >> (I've only heard once that such a patch exists, >> but since the game is so disk-intensive I'd like >> to get it). > >Drool! Could this possibly be true? I'd _love_ to >patch one of my _3_ store bought copies (it's a long >story) to play from hard disk, since I tried to play >this _great_ game over and found I've totally lost >my patience for playing from floppies since I got a >hard drive and started playing games from it. > >That has to be a heck of a patch, since FTA has hidden >files, probably proprietary compression, etc. Well, I've only heard that the patch exists. That's obviously not much to go on. I did, however, get FreeCopy from Fish Disk 498 and remove the on-disk protection. Now I can play from a backup instead of the original. I think it also makes the "manual" protection (completing the phrases from the map) accept any answer, so you can just hit <RETURN>. I usually just automatically type the answers, but I think I goofed on one and it still worked... Here's what I've tried: I took the backup (non-protected) disk and diskcopied it to RAD:. I then went in with NewZap and changed all the references to df0: to sys:. It made it as far as the storybook, but no farther. Incidentally, I tried just copying the files from the non-protected version to my HD and running it from there, too. That had the same result. I guess part of the hidden code is referencing the floppy at some point. When I stick a disk in the drive goes mad looking for stuff, but it never quite finds it. I guess I'll get out the disk editor and see what I can find. I expect, like Kent said, that it's compressed in some way. I don't figure I'll find much, but it's worth a try... This looks like a job for someone who likes to pour through other's code [i.e. NOT ME! :) ]. BTW, FreeCopy also took care of F/A-18 for me (see the Subject: line). I'm still looking for a patch for BattleChess. Anyone? Anyone?! >Kent, the man from xanth. ><xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> >-- >Convener, rec.arts.sf.* grand reorganization. What a busy man! Whatcha gonna reorganize next? ;) -- -------greg@pfloyd.lonestar.org---greg@pfloyd.UUCP---egsner!pfloyd!greg------- "How I wish. How I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year. Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here." -- Pink Floyd