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- How to patch the ReSource executable to use one bitplane for its screen
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-
- Introduction
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- ReSource, an Amiga disassembler from The Puzzle Factory is a superb product.
- However, with the introduction of version 6 the display routines were changed
- to make them more RTG-friendly. The new routines are significantly slower
- than those in version 5.
-
- The effect of this is especially bad for users with ECS machines. My
- preferred screenmode for running ReSource is Super72:High Res, 800×300. In
- four colours, this is almost unusably slow on my (accelerated) A2000.
- Changing the screen depth to 1 speeds things up greatly. Since the
- disassembled code only uses 1 colour (plus background), this is unaffected by
- the change. The only differences are cosmetic.
-
- The Patches
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- I give explicit patches for versions 6.01 and 6.06, which are the only 6.x
- versions that I have. If a newer version exists, please let me know. If you
- have an older version, contact The Puzzle Factory for upgrade information.
-
- You can apply these patches with a binary file editor, such as Nicola
- Salmoria's Hex.
-
- Version 6.01 (10.05.94)
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- Offset Change From Change To
- ------ ----------- ---------
- $019229 02 01
-
- Version 6.06 (07.02.95)
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- Offset Change From Change To
- ------ ----------- ---------
- $01DF35 02 01
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- If you have a different version of ReSource, try searching for the following
- sequence of bytes in the executable, and change the indicated byte:
-
- 2658 7802 204C
- ^^
- Change to 01
-
-
- -- Mark Knibbs
- mark_k@iname.com
-