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Bubble Ghost from Accolade
REQUIREMENTS:
512k Apple//GS
3.5" Disk copier
3.5" Disk editor
To remove the annoying "What level is this?" question (pirate protection)
make the follow these easy steps:
1. Make a copy of the Bubble Ghost game disk
2. Make the following edit to the copy only
(rel block 78, rel bytes $9B74, $9B77, $9BA2 for Block Warden)
BLK BYTE FROM TO
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$17A $174 AD 00 00 9C 00 00
$177 F0 2E 80 2E
$1A2 22 00 00 00 AF 00 00 00
3. Write the block back to the copy
4. Play off the newly deprotected copy
Once again, the whole requestor screen/routine is totaly bypassed! However the
program was not hard disk compatible! I then set out fix this little problem.
All files were being loaded like this: /Bubble/WAVE. I thought I could use
the ProDOS 16 "1/" to make the program accept the current device. I now had to
change all the "/Bubble" to something, so I came up with "1/Ghost" so Bubble
Ghost will load ALL needed files off the current volume in the subdirectory
GHOST. Use a copy of Bubble Ghost for the following steps:
Make the edit From "/Bubble" (2F 42 75 62 62 6C 65 in hex)
To "1/Ghost" (31 2F 47 68 6F 73 74 in hex)
at ALL the following locations:
Any block editor Block Warden ([F]ollow /BUBBLE/BUBBLE.SYS16)
Block Byte Rel Block Rel Bytes
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$129 $9C 47 $5C9C
$B8 $5CB8
$CA $5CCA
$171 $0F 67 $840F
$2B $842B
$87 $8487
$9F $849F
$B7 $84B7
$CF $84CF
$E7 $84E7
$FF $84FF
$172 $143 68 $8743
$158 $8758
Now get out a blank disk and format it with a name something like BUBBLE.GHOST
or what ever. At this point I DELETED all unneeded files like the FINDER.DATA
files, P8 in the system subdirectory, and FINDER.ICONS in the icons
subdirectory.
Copy the PRODOS file and the SYSTEM and ICONS subdirectories to the new disk.
Copy BUBBLE.SYS16 to the new disk.
CREATE a new subdirectory called GHOST on the new disk.
Copy the WAVE and GHOST.SCR files into the new GHOST subdirectory.
Copy the DESSINS and SONS subdirectories into the new GHOST subdirectory.
A tree directory (other than PRODOS, SYSTEM and ICONS) would look something like this:
File Type
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BUBBLE.SYS16 S16
/GHOST DIR
WAVE BIN
GHOST.SCR TXT
/DESSINS DIR
GHOSTGS.CGS S16
GS1.CGS S16
GS2.CGS S16
GS3.CGS S16
GS4.CGS S16
GS5.CGS S16
GS6.CGS S16
/SONS DIR
LESSONS BIN
Now to upload Bubble Ghost to your hard drive use COPY ][+, the finder, or
other file by file copier and copy BUBBLE.SYS16 and GHOST. The copy program
will copy all this files and subdirectories in GHOST. Then copy the GENE.ICONS
to your volume/ICONS subdirectory. To play the game simply luanch BUBBLE.SYS16