Re: Qix - Filecracked! (With Caveats)

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:50:40 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> Replying to myself again.  I got it to load without compressing; it still 
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> needs 2 stages, and can now use a BASIC loader instead of requiring a TEXT 
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> loader.
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> http://1.buric.co/qixfile.zip
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> It still has the same garbled title screen issue.  It loads remarkably 
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> fast compared to the standard version, probably because it doesn't display 
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> THREE DHGR GRAPHICS (plus a Taito logo over the first one) while starting 
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> up.
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> Included are:
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> 1. qixfile.dsk - the actual disk image.
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> 2. qix1c.a65 and qix2c.a65, plus listings of their assembly.
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>     (These are QIXLC and QIXGO on the disk image.)
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> 3. qix-base.bin - A dump of the contiguous 48K of memory at the startup
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>     point, created with AppleWin.
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> 4. The remaining 8 files are a dump of the D000-FFFF block of memory in
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>     every bank (C = alternate D; "2" is assumed to be the main bank), as
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>     generated with the help of ApplePC (yes, I still use this from time to
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>     time) and EDM.
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> What may be possible is that some of the language card data is tampered 
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> with by the monitor and this could be responsible for the title screen 
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> issue.  The next attempt will be to write a tool, loadable from the 
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> AppleWin debugger, to save this memory without the assistance of EDM.
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> -uso.

If you point me in the direction of the nibblized version, I'll send you the memory dumps of the title screen.  :-)

-B