Deathchase

hypostomus

Hi all, I was just wondering if someone out there could help me... I have the ?2.99 rerelease from 1986 and I'm trying to hack the loader. The tape has a basic loader, and then the screen$ and main program block are one long headerless block. What I'm trying to do is multiface a new copy as a backup for when the original tape goes tits up. What I'd like to do is have a pause 0 before the main program starts to preserve the loading screen. Merging the loader gives a copyright message, a randomize usr, and a line of gibberish. Presumably hidden somewhere is the data for the header which hopefully can be modified. Someone posted a link to Jon North's How To Hack articles from YS which would probably help a lot but I can't find it now. :(. Can anyone help?
Cheers
Chris

FrankT

hypostomus wrote: »

Hi all, I was just wondering if someone out there could help me... I have the ?2.99 rerelease from 1986 and I'm trying to hack the loader. The tape has a basic loader, and then the screen$ and main program block are one long headerless block. What I'm trying to do is multiface a new copy as a backup for when the original tape goes tits up. What I'd like to do is have a pause 0 before the main program starts to preserve the loading screen. Merging the loader gives a copyright message, a randomize usr, and a line of gibberish. Presumably hidden somewhere is the data for the header which hopefully can be modified. Someone posted a link to Jon North's How To Hack articles from YS which would probably help a lot but I can't find it now. :(. Can anyone help?
Cheers
Chris

Jon North's How To Hack

If you get really stuck just ask, I've deprotected this game before to get it onto a +3 disk.
Its an easy one to do.

Frank