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FASTBREAK GS by Accolade
From: mhackett@vaxxine.com (Michael Hackett)
stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
> Problem is, that it does not load properly. It gets to the second or
> third opening screen, then recycles through it all again.
>
> The article on this software in COMPUTIST magazine states that Accolade's
> copy protectioon scheme is defective and that what has happened is common
> on originals.
Just before I sold my copy recently, I found that my original wouldn't
boot either when my Zip was enabled. My deprotected disk worked fine,
though.
Here's my personal crack. It's very simple. With a block editor, make
the following changes to the FASTBREAK.SYS16 file (on a copy, of
course):
byte $3E0 (block 2, byte $1E0): change $22 to $AF
byte $3E7 (block 2, byte $1E7): change $F0 to $80
Note that those offsets are relative to the start of the FASTBREAK.SYS16
file. If your block editor does not support editing files, the actual
block number was $000A on my disk, but this may change from disk to
disk.
Let me know if that helps.
Michael