Win32 P@tcher M@kerŽ 0.94
The fastest way of creating Win 95/98/NT based C++ Patches!

 
 
 

Introduction
Win32 P@tcher M@kerŽ is a brand new tool, which has been created to ease my own work for creating patches for Windows 95/98/NT. As I do think it's quite a useful tool I decided to make it avaible to the public. I do hope you enjoy it as I spent a few hours of coding on it.

Please mail me your feedback and/or thoughts, so that I can improve that tool.

As I don't want the increase the size of the ZIP file where you should have found this tool in, I decided not to include the FREE lcc-Win32 C-Compiler, which is a absolute NEED.

After you have installed the compiler to \LCC of the same drive you copied this tool to, you are ready to go:

 
[Win32 P@tcher M@ker Screenshot]

Required entries are Directory, Original, Patched File. The other entries are just optional ... but I would recommend filling in these. After your ORIGINAL FILE has been compared with the PATCHED FILE, the tool starts generating the SOURCE for the patcher. After having successfully generated it, it is going to be compiled (the tool will launch \LCC\BIN\MAKE.EXE). As result, the compiled patch should have a size of around 10 KB.

You might think that your DOS based patches were a little bit smaller in size ... and you're perfectly right. One reason for this is that there is some unuseful stuff included in Windows EXE files (you can use that free location for patching a program - but that's not interesting now). But after compression mostly the ZIP with the Windows Patcher has (with my current DOS C-Compiler) a smaller filesize ... and Windows based patches look as much more QUALiTY as DOS based patches could ever look (at least in my opinion).

The patcher itself, will look something like this:

[Win32 P@tcher Screenshot]

Now I do hope you enjoy this patcher. Please remember sending me some feedback and/or thoughts!
 


History
 
Version Changes
0.94 A few improvements
0.93 Fixed some BUGs
Improved file compare routine
0.92 Check for same filenames added
0.91 Fixed some BUGs
0.90 FiRST PuBLiC RELEASE
 

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