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Re: Thexder

In article lstrand@ics.uci.edu (Leif Strand) writes...
>
>I heard that joystick control was an "easter egg" in the original
>version of Thexder -- one holds down 'J' while loading the program or
>something.  In version 2.7 (?), activating joystick control is simply
>a matter of pressing the joystick button at the title screen, I think.

	My version of Thexder (S16 file dated September 1987) by 
default works by keyboard control, although to invoke the joystick
you simply pressed 'J' any time during gameplay. It was very jerky
control however, so I never used it. This was the first 10 programs
I bought for my IIgs back in 1987 (before it even arrived) so I'm
fairly sure it's the very original release version.

	I recently tried installing it on my hardrive, but it has
key-disk protection. Does anyone out there know which bytes to
patch to so I don't have to insert the original each time I launch
it? (Copy II Plus didn't seem to work).

>--Leif

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca