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Re: A little trick went horribly wrong (removing crackscreen)
- Subject: Re: A little trick went horribly wrong (removing crackscreen)
- From: "Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:41:03 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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"Moll" <Mollyzkoubou@Spam.BettyKate.Spam.Spam.Spam.Dosius.Com> wrote in
message news:5TOAd.5997$PY6.5551@trndny02...
>I decided to try to remove the crackscreen from Ms. Pac-Man. Based on the
>C64 version, I concluded, that at the title, above the marquee (where it
>says "DISKMAN PRESENTS") should read "ATARISOFT PRESENTS", and below,
>should read "� 1983 ATARI, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED". So I tried to binary-edit
>the disk to fix this (simple text replacement), and lo and behold, it broke
>it...
>
> I am not versed in 6502 very well, and don't really know how I'd figure
> out what's causing it to flake out in this instance.
>
> Anyone had better luck?
>
> Moll.
"ATARISOFT PRESENTS" is longer than "DISKMAN PRESENTS"
A binary edit would overwrite needed code most likely.
Change DISKMAN to MOLLMAN and see if that works.