Assorted Cracks 1 Wings of Fury, VCR Companion, CrossWord Magic 4.0, Tetris, RoboCop, Ikari Warriors Plus Dream Zone Great Western Shootout Task Force Hard Ball From: Michael Kelsey Wings of Fury, VCR Companion, CrossWord Magic 4.0, Tetris, RoboCop, Ikari Warriors, etc. etc. I have a solution. It took many days to come across this one. First, you need Copy II+ 6.5 or later, or the equivalent of a Bit Copier with a Nibble Editor and then some patience. Also, it is much easier if you have a Sector Editor with a string or hex search mode. If you don't have a sector editor then skip this step. If you do, go to the mode to patch the sector editor. Change all the YES's to NO's. Copy II+ will overlook any checksum errors this way. Next, start from track $00, sector $00 and scan for these bytes: AC 00 AC 00 In short this consists of periods and control-@'s. Write down the track of the occurrence. If you get a "string not found" error than this method won't work. Next, go into the Bit Copier and set it to edit mode. For those of you who have Copy II+ press "/" when right before the copy process begins. Type in "0B" and then "02" and . By the way, only copy that track where the occurrence is found. Once the drive light stop spinning on the original drive type "f" (I think that is the command) and enter: E7E7E7 If you see this pattern repeated many times than you have found the copy- protection. Starting from the first E7 (and including) count skip over six of them and press "C" when on the seventh. Now type the following: AF F3 FC EE E7 FC EE E7 FC EE EE FC Press "Q" to quit the editor mode and continuing with Copy II+ like normal. DO NOT COPY ONTO YOUR ORIGINAL!!!!! That is a very unwise thing to do especially if the program doesn't use exactly this protection scheme. Now, (if you like) got to you sector editor and read from that Track and Sector that you wrote down earlier. If your Custom Patch settings have not been changed then read that spot. No error should occur unless a disk drive copied poorly. Now, go back to the PATCH screen and change it to DOS 3.3 PATCHED. Escape back to the sector editor (the place with all the numbers and characters) and write the sector to you BACKUP disk. Reboot, you are done. This works with many Broderbund, Epyx, and other programs where Roland Gustaffson implemented his floppy drive routine. If you have questions, comments, send them to mkelsey@eecs.wsu.edu . ___________________________________________ From: jnichol@tso.cin.ix.net (Jim Nichol) Dream Zone: Change 22 DB C4 00 to AF DB C4 00 at all 4 of the following locations on Disk 1: Block $1B7, Byte $A9 Block $1B7, Byte $DF Block $1BC, Byte $F6 Block $1BC, Byte $12C This supposedly is a HD compatible patch. *************** Great Western Shootout: Block Byte From To ----- ---- ---- --- $593 12B 20 00 BF 80 3A 09 2C 00 BF EA EA EA $596 01B B0 1D EA EA $596 02C D9 00 14 D0 08 B9 00 14 EA EA *************** Tower of Myraglen: Block $40F, Byte $72, change $22 CB 1B 00 to EA EA EA EA *************** Task Force: To make a deprotected copy of Task Force, you must enter a little program to read the block into memory, then save the data to disk, etc. 1. Make a copy of both disks 2. Get into BASIC and BLOAD TF.READ.B63F,A$1000 3. Insert your ORIGINAL Task Force Disk 1. 4. Type the following: CALL-151 1000G (insert temp storage disk) BSAVE TF.BLOCK.63F,A$1800,L$200 5. Insert your COPY of Task Force Disk 1, and do the following: BLOAD STARTUP.SYSTEM,A$2000,TSYS 2026:A9 00 0E 2034:4C 43 0A 20C9:5C 88 41 02 2243:A9 FF 01 A2 00 2248:14 A0 00 98 54 02 00 4B 2250:AB 18 4C 37 08 EA<2255.2290Z 2291:18 (insert disk with TF.BLOCK.63F) BLOAD TF.BLOCK.63F,A$2C00 (reinsert the copy of Task Foce Disk 1) BSAVE STARTUP.SYSTEM,A$2000,TSYS,L$E00 I have a further handwritten note that says: "The memory-clearing routine for Battle Chess is needed to make Task Force work on a hard disk with 6.0.1, etc." *************** Hard Ball: Block Byte Change to ----- ---- --------- 31D 009 2C 5D 6B 24 31D 014 2C 5D 6B 24 31E 054 60 321 1A3 08 60 329 07D 60 32C 1EE 18 60 32F 0FF 18 60 335 1DE 60 339 067 60 33D 109 04 This supposedly is hard disk compatible. Jim