Newly Hacked Games Now Enable Them to Run from a Mass Storage Device!

[Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com>]

Hi all,

I’m a pretty happy camper at the moment. After buying IIGS games like 
Mean 18, World Games and Winter Games some 25 years ago, I can now 
finally play them from a hard drive, thanks to some instructions I 
found on the TABBS CD-ROM. Thanks to Speccie for making TABBS available 
to all and for some guidance on using Byte Bagger and understanding 
sector editing!

The article by Joe Jaworski can be found here:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/MOVING_DEPROTECTED_SOFTWARE_TO_HARD_DISKS.txt 


which was originally taken from the file called ‘PATCHES.IIGS’ on the 
TABBS CD-ROM.

It’s enabled me, a complete non-programmer and even worse sector 
editor, to change the hard paths of some games that couldn’t just be 
copied to a hard drive (or any mass storage volume) and run from there 
without requiring the original (deprotected) floppy disk volume being 
mounted.

You can download these now hard drive friendly games here:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/Games_with_Path_Mods.zip

I ended up using Salvation Supreme – Deliverance to sector edit.

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/salvation-supreme

It includes some neat features like find and replace, with a case 
sensitivity option. Replacing all instances of paths in a couple of 
clicks is wonderful and potentially saved me many frustrating hours of 
going line by line of the represented ASCII data.

While I’m happy with what I have made work, there are still a few games 
that resist hard drive/mass storage installation. Dream Zone is 
particularly of interest, and from the TABBS CD-ROM, I’ve found a 
specific article detailing how to make that title hard drive 
installable – but it sounds like too much work for me as a novice 
sector editor. Anyone who can breeze through a sector editor want to 
give it a go?

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/DREAM.ZONE.TXT

I’ve logged my successes and failures, with additional notes here on 
all the games I’ve tried:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/files/Path_Name_Changes_Log.txt

If anyone else thinks they can add to this list of successes, let me 
know. Otherwise, I’ll add these newly hacked games as a new volume to 
download from ‘What is the Apple IIGS?’ shortly.

- Alex
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