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Article #13965Re: Activision Copy Protection - "Shanghai"
From: David Phillip Oster
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1986 05:32
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1986 05:32
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The demo version of Shanghai, recently posted to the net, does the unfriendly thing of rebooting your machine when it exits. I fixed my copy by patching the word 0xA017 to 0xA9F4. This turns the _Eject system call into _ExitToShell. So far it has not messed up my hard disk. (Many games leave the file manager in a bad state when they exit. After such games it is best to reboot anyway.) Naturally, I can make no guarantees that this fix will work for you. --- David Phillip Oster -- "The goal of Computer Science is to Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- build something that will last at Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- least until we've finished building it."
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