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- Description for THE PATCHER,
- written by Egon, now maintained by Harry.
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-
- What is it?
- THE PATCHER is an utility to patch your originals to work on higher
- processors and/or AGA or to help to install them on your hd.
-
-
- How does it work?
- Simply start it, choose your game by clicking on the selection requester
- and press Patch! . Then insert a COPY of your original (unless your
- original is EXPRESSLY demanded).
- Even if only one parameter is displayed you have to select it first.
-
-
- Which advantages has it?
- Easily addition of parameters due to the module-concept. It works like
- the soundplayers of Delitracker. If you get a new parameter without
- install, just copy it to the PARAMETER/-directory of THE PATCHER.
- But for most parameters should exist an installscript so you dont have
- to do anything.
- For programmers: Mighty interface to OS-functions. Look at the developers
- description.
-
-
- System requirements:
- Kick1.3 or higher. Ruby_8 font. The parameters may not be crunched,
- except with an installed XPK-system.
-
-
- Contents:
- The package contains THE PATCHER-mainprogram, the compareprogram
- MAKECOMPTAB, some examples of parameters (as binary) and this readme.
- The developers package contains additionally some more parameters (as
- source and binary), the compareprogram makecomptab as source and binary,
- the patcher-sourcecode and the developers readme.
- These packages are freeware, you shouldnt change this text or the
- mainprogram and keep it completely, but feel free to add parameters.
-
-
- Command line parameters:
- Unless otherwise specified, source- and destinationdrive will be
- DF0: (affects only some parameters, which converts NON-DOS disks).
- DOS disks will always be converted in that drive where they are
- inserted.
-
- Parameter Example Description
- -s<device> -sDF3: Set source drive (for NDOS disks)
- -d<device> -dRAD: Set destination drive
- The specified drive must be already present.
- -p<drive:path/parametername> Execute The Patcher as pseudo-commandline-
- version, eg for using it in hd-install-
- scripts.
-
-
- Comment to "Error in parameter execution":
- This means nearly everytime a reading/saving error and may have the following
- reasons:
- -If it accesses the source disk rather shortly: Other game version
- -If it stops after reading a lot from the source disk: Disk error on your
- original disk :(
- -Not enough space on the destinationdrive
- -Bad sector on the destination drive (rather seldom, also you should get a
- system requester about such thing)
-
-
- History:
- V1.00 First working version. Release date 20-07-1994.
- V1.01 Harry took over. Minor fixes. Commandline-option -p added.
- (09-may-1997)
- V1.02 Some things added (PTB_FSSM*PTR, inhibiting/enabling drives).
- (02-jun-1997)
- V1.03 Versionstring added (requested by Bert Jahn). Possibility to
- evaluate a CRC16 implemented. (09-jun-1997)
- V1.04 Errormessage added if no parameter is selected and Patch! clicked.
- I dont want to have mails about that anymore. Docs a bit revised.
- (17-jun-1997)
- V1.05 Function to display information added. Bug in makecomptab for
- files exceeding 1 MB corrected. Examples reworked. (12-jan-1998)
-
-
- And last but not least a bit of music is needed to entertain me while patching
- (just a choice, a list of my 150 cds would be a bit long...). The list is
- unordered and in no way a ranking list:
- Grave Digger Wargames (Heavy Metal)
- Incubus Beyond the Unknown (Death Metal)
- Heather Nova Oyster (Rock)
- Zarah Leander Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? (German gramophone
- music of ~ 1930 :)) )
- Bruce Springsteen The River (Rock)
- Paddy goes to Holyhead Ready for Paddy? (Irish Folk)
- Philip Boa &... Hair
- Army of Lovers Glory, Glamour and Gold (Very nice fun-music)
- Helloween Walls of Jericho (Heavy Metal)
- Unleashed Across the open sea (Death metal)
- Tiamat Wildhoney (Melodic Black Metal)
- Amorphis Tales from the 1000 lakes (Melodic Metal)
- Eloy Dawn (Art Rock)
- Uriah Heep Very best of (compiled by Arcade) (Rock)
- Alice Cooper Trash (Metal)
- Anne Clark Pressure Points (Dark Wave?)
- Chris Hülsbeck Turrican Soundtrack
- Winter Into darkness (Gothic)
- And of course a lot of computer music, eg from Beast1 (Whittaker), various
- from Chris Hülsbeck, from Hybris, from Wings of Death (Hippel), Onslaught
- and Dragon Wars (Maniacs of Noise), some from Dr. Awesome and many of
- unknown authors.
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