MOSAIC
(C) WLODEK BLACK
Championship VIRUS II: unless management works
in the game
Hello, dear users!
Firstly, I take this opportunity to thank Ilya
ZX-SHADOW for organizing a splendid entertainment, able to
encompass the whole world of Spectrum in Moscow, and far
beyond.
Trying to use the program "VIRUS II" to "Pentagon-128"
did not lead to success - management was paralyzed missing port
Kempston joystick out of an empty space which read # FF; arrow
in the game gather in the lower left corner and stuck there
forever. Here you can see the obvious flaw of the program, all
the more regrettable that the "Pentagon-128, on results of
various surveys, prevails among spektrumistov
I had to hack the program (the benefit is not difficult -
just two "ksorki") and add to it the ability to block poll
Kempston joystick. Moscow, users can simply download a me (or
from other servers, the program is already sold out), broken
version. A championship participants from other regions, I want
to offer their hands to remove glitch. Here's how it's done.
Take a blank disc and record on it the program "VIRUS II".
Next, use any disk-doctor and go to track 6,
Sector 7. Find the Bytes # 11, # 89, located at offset # C1
from the beginning of the sector, and replace them with # AD, #
6A; then write to disk the changes made. That's it! Management
in game will be on the keyboard QAORprobel.
Originally I wanted to invite you to open the game "VIRUS II"
with little utilities in BASIC, the text of which occupies two
lines, after which you would have access to the "internals"
insecure software game, but one person gave me wise advice: to
organize all over the disk-doctor so as not to tire the user to
fatten string "DATA" from the keyboard, with which I simply
could not agree more. Advantages of the proposed on the advice
approach are obvious: the number of keystrokes in the proposed
variant is much less (though, you need the disk-doctor but he
certainly has the arsenal of every computer player, and every
player, of course, knows how to use it and know how arranged
disk) any error in the actions of a disk-doctor is able to
deliver the sea thrills (for example, if the "correct" not
where they should), but even the word "virus" is already
adjusts for elevated tone, so that everything is in order, and
finally, after diskdoktora program will save the original size
of 162 sectors that can not but rejoice, because a good program
should be a lot!
Play on health, play and win, just play
so!
Sincerely, WLODEK BLACK
(Vladimir Bulchukey)
zxnet@deol.ru (095/462)
(C) OLDMAN
With hardly believe that any of the users do not have the
Spectrum ADM program, or any other disk-doctor, for example,
built-in CONVER COMMANDER (you do not set-top box
bought!), or use them to cause more difficulty than
packing lines in BASIC, and the subsequent reduction of the
dismantled game in normal form ... And yet, wishing to get
acquainted with original creations distinguished WLODEK'a
BLACK'a, namely: program in BASIC in two rows, which, according
to the author, Not only will remove the protection and
eliminate the "glitch", but will pack the game, and probably
sew it to the BASIC loader, can, may become familiar with it in
the newspaper NICRON, where WB is often shares his invaluable
experience in programming, and / or magazine ZX-REVIEW, where
from time immemorial taken to publish such amateurism ...
Attention! That would avoid the "thrill", climb the
disk-doctor only in the author's version VIRUS II (A file with
extension B - Start: 46 Length: 46, Size: 162). And change
there something _only_ in case if you find a byte # 11, # 89!
Or look for well-corrected version of this game.
Dmitry (OLDMAN)
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