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- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 96 22:36:00 +0100
- Subject: A Hacker's Question..
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- In a message of 05 Jan 96 Chris Cochems wrote to All:
-
- >> If this loop returns the same value say three times (in the accumulator
- >> that is), there is a dumb cart in the other end. (You could do a more
- >> complex one with $df00 check and so on as well, but if I had them both in
- >> the same loop a cartridge using only one of the pages would sneak by...)
-
- CC> Problem with this loop: I have had the same location return a ZERO
- CC> three times is a row. Only non-zero values are conclusive in this
- CC> test. SOme c64s return a constant value of zero for unconnected
- CC> locations.
-
- Right, I didn't include the full one but the princip was there!
-
- >> CC> I have seen games (such as Ultimate Wizard) that will not load if you
- >> CC> have ANY cartridge in. Even with a disabled fastload, it will not
- >> CC> work!
-
- >> From disk? (Mind sending a nibbled copy for educational purposes?)
-
- CC> Heck, I have no need of the original anymore...
-
- >> Neat. I always ripped out the old loader myself. Either installed an IFFL
- >> (level linking and fastloader) or used standard kernal to open for
- >> fastloaders - carts or harwarebased...
-
- CC> Well, the second method was my solution.
-
- I kinda followed the stream; This was demanded from crackers during certain a
- certain period. Nowadays emulatorfreaks seriously regret this and I admit that
- it would have been better if I had gone for "normal" cracks...
-
- CC> You are a pretty sharp coder, so maybe you can look at the
- CC> initialization code of Pharaoh's Curse and tell me what part of it
- CC> hangs 128s and sx-64. A frozen copy works, the original does not.
-
- Pharao's Curse is another one I'd LOVE to have! I just have a crappy copy
- working on the first level! :-(
-
- /Pontus Berg, Bacchus@FairLight.COM
-
- ... MicroSoft, as good as AIDS!
- (Pontus)
-