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- From: tose@unix03.dhmolde.no (Torbjoern Ose)
- Subject: Re: Formula One simulation & protected floppies.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.125557.13943@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: DhMolde - Computer Science
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- References: <1992Nov9.144725.3899@ericsson.se>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 12:55:57 GMT
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- Grant McFarlane (etlgtme@etlxd20.ericsson.se) wrote:
- : Hi Folks,
- :
- : I'm determined to get this lot installed on my hard disk, but I'm
- : going to need some help from some very clever people, and I know your out
- : there.
- : OK, so now the technical bit, which is why I posted this to comp.sys.
- : atari.st.tech as well.
- : After messing around with a few sector editors I've narrowed it down to
- : Side 0, Track 0, Sector 1. (The boot sector, I believe). It contains
- : executable code which sets the whole thing rolling at reset. I've messed
- : around with it and managed to get the icon to open up into a window but it
- : just says "0 bytes used in 0 items". Can anybody help me here? Am I wasting
- : my time? Can it be done?
- :
-
- Forget it!
-
- Installing it on a harddisk MIGHT be possible if you do some VERY serious
- hacking (involving writing your own harddiskdriver and modifying the program
- to use this one and simply copy complete disk images onto harddisk)
-
- F1GP does work on a 520 (I think) and will have to run from a VERY low memory
- location, screwing up everything (including 99% of all harddiskdrivers) and
- since it doesn't use gemdos() file access you'll have to rewrite the "file"
- routines anyway so it involves a LOT of work even for the MOST talented
- hackers. My advice is: Write a letter to the publisher and tell him why you
- won't be buying any more of their games.. Might work! :)
-
- Btw, an alternative is to get Vroom which isn't on that many disks :)
-
- Cheers,
-
- - Torbjorn
-