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- Article 5952 of comp.sys.amiga:
- Path: xanth!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce
- From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Bug fixes for Amiga Infocom products
- Message-ID: <8706100144.AA14715@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 10 Jun 87 01:44:59 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- [ Amiga 500 ]
- Several of the Infocom interactive fiction art-forms for the Amiga have
- some common "bugs". What follows is patch to fix these. It is known to
- work for Hitchiker's Guide, Starcross and Spellbreaker. It probably is
- applicable to all Infocom products that open a window on the workbench.
-
- Now, if I could only get the rock to eat or get the roc the leave the
- nest. Yes, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly... (Spellbreaker spoilers welcome)
-
-
- Search for: (find $0280, look backwards)
- 70003d40 ffd03d40 ffd2303c 02803d40
- ffd4303c 00c83d40 ffd6422e ffd81d7c
- 0001ffd9
-
- Replace with:
- 70012D40 FFD03D7C 0280FFD4 3D7C00C8
- FFD63D7C 0001FFD8 3D7C00C8 FFF63D7C
- 0032FFF8
-
- Search for:
- 00001007
-
- Replace with:
- 00021007 ;Flags+NOCAREREFRESH
-
- Search for:
- 3d40fff6 3d7c0032 fff83d7c 0280fffa ????????
-
- Replace with:
- 3D7CFFFF FFFA3D7C FFFFFFFC 4E714E71 4E714E71
-
-
- The bugs:
-
- Those of us with an expanded display find that Infocom set the maximum
- window size to 640*200. Shame, shame. Anyone with morerows, interlace,
- PAL, or an add-on large display has more space to play with. The
- interresting point is that internally the Infocom software already
- compensates for any size screen. With this patch installed just grab the
- sizing gadget and pull away... the text will wrap to match!
-
- Second bug: They did not know to set the NOCARREFESH flag in the NewWindow
- structure. If you resize the window without the patch, then pull down a
- menu or move another window, the borders will flash. This problem really
- gives a performance hit for all other windows on the screen.
-
- Third "bug": The window obscures the title bar, so I drop it a pixel.
- This results in the exact same number of available lines of text.
-
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- Ack! (NAK,EOT,SOH)
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