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- From: vsn@cc.ic.ac.UK (Vartan Narinian)
- Subject: Re: Problem with F117 demo
- Message-ID: <9208231747.AA23589@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: Imperial College Computer Centre
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:47:16 GMT
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- >I just tried to run the F117 demo and ran into a problem. As soon as the
- >demo starts it asks me if I have a joystick. At this point my PC locks up
- >and I have to reboot. Anyone have this happen? Suggestions?
- >
- >Jim Feeney
-
- Do you have a monochrome VGA perhaps?
-
- After some debugging me and a friend of mine found the following:
- At the start of the game there is a routine which outputs stuff to
- the VGA ports. The routine which does this works in combination with
- a timer routine which is different for the color and monochrome VGA.
- The monochrome VGA timer routine has a terrible bug: It pushes three
- registers on entry but only pops two on exit and hell breaks loose at the
- RET.
-
- Of course, this applies to the full game but if the routines come
- from a library, there is a great chance that the demo has the same problem.
-
- In the process of finding this out, I have also patched out the
- Aircraft Identification Quiz and I'll post both patches together with
- a decompressor for files compressed with PKLITE and LZ91 so that
- patches can be applied.
-
- Vartan
-
-