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101 - THE MALTESE HACKERS
PRESENT
DISKPIC V1.0 ... A BITMAP-SCREEN DISK MONITOR
WRITTEN BY CRAIN OF 101 IN NOVEMBER 1988
YO HACKERS IN THE HOUSE ...
YESTERDAY WE GOT A COPY OF PACMANIA , WHICH , STRANGELY ENOUGH, DID NOT HAVE
ANY CRACKINGS OR ANY NAMES SINGED IN IT !! I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS REALLY A
SHAME, COZ PACMANIA IS A REALLY GOOD GAME ... SO I DECIDED TO INSERT MY NAME
IN THE TITLE SCREEN ...
NOW PACMANIA (AT LEAST THIS ALMOST-ORIGINAL COPY I HAD !!) LOADS WITH A
SPECIAL LOADER FROM BOOTBLOCK AS SOON AS YOU INSERT THE DISK. THIS IS DONE
EITHER TO SAVE DISK SPACE (COZ IN THIS WAY THERE IS NO NEED TO DO THE
CHECKSUM OF EACH SECTOR ETC.) OR AS A MEANS OF PROTECTION, SINCE THE USER
CANNOT SEE ANY FILES. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN THIS TYPE OF
"PROTECTION" (????), SUCH AS IN FUTURE TANK. BUT TO EXACTLY WHERE THE SCREENS
WHERE SITUATED I WASTED A LOT OF TIME (OVER 10 MINUTES) USING A NORMAL
MONITOR/DEBUGGER. SO AFTER I HAD TAKEN ALL THE TROUBLE TO CRACK THIS GAME,
I DECIDED TO WRITE THIS UTILITUY FOR FUTURE USES, AND FOR OTHER HACKERS WHO
MIGHT ENCOUNTER THE SAME TROUBLES.
NOTE: THIS UTILITY IS NOT FOR LOOSERS, COZ YOU NEED SOME MORE WORK AFTER
USING IT, BUT IT DOES HELP A LOT IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I
COULD HAVE MADE IT EASIER TO ACTUALLY EDIT THE SCREENS, BUT NOOOO,
IF YOU ARE A LAMER YOU SHOULD NOT INSERT YOUR NAME IN A GAME JUST
BY USING A UTILITY. I REALLY HATE TO SEE SOMEONE ( LIKE ALL THESE
PEOPLE IN MALTA ) WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT AN ASSEMBLER IS, AND INSERT
THEIR NAME (COZ THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE WISE) JUST BY USING SOME
DISK EDITOR ....
USAGE:
CALL DISKPIC FROM CLI WITHOUT ANY PARAMETERS, AND A SCREEN WILL APPEAR.
THE UPPER PART TILL NOW IS EMPTY, AND BELOW THERE IS THE PANEL. THIS
SHOWS THE CURRENTLY SELECTED TRACK NUMBER, THE NO. OF PLANES SELECTED,
THE RESOLUTION (0=LO-RES 1=HI-RES), AND IF THE SCREEN IS PAL OR NOT (0=
NORMAL 1=PAL). I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO INSERT A HIGH SCORE AND THE NUMBER
OF LIVES, BUT THERE WAS NO FREE SPACE !!! ANYWAY, CONTROL IS ACHIEVED VIA
THE FUNCTION KEYS, AND THE FOLLOWING IS THE KEYS FUNCTION.
F1 = DECREASE TRACK BY 1
F2 = INCREASE TRACK BY 1
F3 = DECREASE TRACK BY 10
F4 = INCREASE TRACK BY 10
F5 = READ CURRENTLY SELECTED TRACK
F6 = INCREASE NO OF PLANES
F7 = TOGGLE LO/HI RESOLUTION
F8 = TOGGLE PAL/NORMAL SCREEN
F9 = USE COLORMAP FROM SCREEN
F10 = USE DEFAULT COLOR MAP
LEFT/RIGHT/MIDDLE MOUSEBUTTON + ANOTHER KEY = EXIT
IF YOU SPECIFY THE READ FACILITY (F5) AND THERE IS NO READ (SCREEN GOES
BLANK) IT MEANS THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOAD A SCREEN WITH THE CURRENT
SETTINGS FROM THE CURRENT POSITION. (EG. SPECIFY A 5 PLANE LOAD FROM TRACK
78 IS IMPOSSIBLE).
NOTE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE A HI-RES 5 PLANE SCREEN, SO THE PROG
DOES NOT ALLOW YOU. ALTHOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN THIS COMBINATION BY
PRESSING CTRL AND THE 4 LOWEST GREY KEYS. BUT THIS NOT ALWAYS WORKS !!
NOTE ALSO THAT THIS PROGRAM WORKS ON TRACKS, SO IF A SCREEN STARTS IN THE
MIDDLE OF A SECTOR (THIS DID NOT HAPPEN IN PACMANIA, AND I DONT THINK IT
WOULD BE TOO WISE TO PUT A SCREEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRACK !!) IT CANNOT
BE SHOW PROPERLY. IF I WILL FIND SOME GAME WHICH DOES THIS .. PERHAPS I
WILL DO AN UPPATE OF THIS UTILITY !!
NOW ONCE THAT YOU HAVE FOUND (IN A MATTER OF SECONDS !!) ON WHICH TRACK THE
SCREEN STARTS, THE REST IS UP TO YOU .. COME ON YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT !!!
THAT'S ALL FOLKZ FOR NOW ... HOPE YOU LIKE THIS UTILITY AND HOPE YOU WILL
FIND IT USEFUL ... AT LEAST I WOULD NOT HAVE SPENT 3 HOURS IN VAIN !!!
OOOOPS ALMOST FORGOT ... WRITE YOUR GRUMBLES ETC. TO :
101 - THE MALTESE HACKERS
PO BOX 529
VALLETTA
MALTA