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⬅️ Previous capture (2023-01-29)
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Although whoever cracked it did a tremendous job, the title page is not
something I want seen around my house (because of the "brought to you by
F.U.C.K. appearing rather blatantly on the screen), so I looked through the
boot block quickly with the intention of taking the page out, or at least not
making it "viewable":
get out block warden and edit block $0000
change byte:
$17 from $8D 29 C0
to $EA EA EA This NOPs the linearization of the SHR screen
$42 from $8D 29 C0
to $EA EA EA This NOPs the linearization of the SHR screen
edit block $0001
change byte:
$42 from $AD 00 C0 30
to $20 62 09 60 This avoids the pauses for the keypresses
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This in no way removed the title page, or prevent it from loading. All it does
is merely skip the part where it makes it viewable and waits for a keypress or
mousestroke or joystick button. I spent about all of 3 mins doing this. It
does what I want and I am sharing the information. If you want it to do
something more than this, don't bitch.
andy