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Article #47574Re: Videx FunPack (vintage 1985)
From: John Doner
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 05:48
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 05:48
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In article <4086@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford) writes: > >For years - good grief - I've enjoyed playing Klondike, from the Videx ... >Vagaries? The <expletive> program insists on a hard reset on quitting. It ... >Does anyone (a) remember this program and - holds breath.. (b) know of >any way I can defeat its desire to reboot every time I leave it? I do >have a kosher copy, for what that's worth; are Videx still around? I remember fixing some of their programs to be better behaved, but it was a while ago. I disassembled it, located the place where it did the hard reset (by branching to a suitable place in low memory), and then I patched the program by replacing the branch by an ExittoShell. Not very difficult if you know how to use MacNosy and FEdit, but otherwise ... John E. Doner | "The beginner...should not be discouraged if...he Mathematics, UCSB | finds that he does not have the prerequisites for Santa Barbara, CA 93106| reading the prerequisites." doner@henri.ucsb.edu | --Paul Halmos, Measure Theory
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!hub!henri!doner From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Videx FunPack (vintage 1985) Message-ID: <4233@hub.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 90 05:48:46 GMT References: <4086@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: news@hub.UUCP Reply-To: doner@henri.UUCP (John Doner) Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 25