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- Unprotect for 'The Games (Winter Edition)'
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- BE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR 'THE GAMES' DISK BEFORE STARTING AND USE THE
- BACK UP FOR THE UNPROTECT.
- Modify only the backup copy!!!
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- First you should rename the file or files
- GAMES.EXE TO GAMES
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- Ex. C>rename games.exe games
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- Next Load program into debug...
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- Ex. C>debug games
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- Then Follow the sample debug session:
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- -s 0000 ffff 0b c0 74 01 : Search for the protection pattern
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- XXXX:YYYY : The search will return one address.
- If more than one is returned
- this unprotect may not work.
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- ZZZZ=YYYY-0005 : Sub 5 from the address found
- (These numbers are in hex. If you are
- unfamiliar with the adding of hex
- numbers don't attempt this patch)
-
- -e ZZZZ eb 03 90 90 90 31 c0 : Edit the contents of the computed
- address
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- Now write the new games game back to the disk:
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- -w <Enter>
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- Writing XXXX bytes
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- Then Quit Debug:
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- -q <Enter>
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- Now it is time to rename games back to games.exe
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- C>ren games games.exe
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- Now try to run the new (Hopefully) unprotected version of The Games
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- C>games
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