Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.usergroups Subject: Re: Trouble loading softw From: jeff.blakeney@canrem.com (Jeff Blakeney) Path: news.uiowa.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!istar.net!news1.toronto.fonorola.net!news1.toronto.istar.net!news.toronto.istar.net!news.crso.com!canrem.com!jeff.blakeney Distribution: world Message-ID: <60.2805.3269.0N20D518@canrem.com> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 12:40:00 -0500 Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario) Lines: 71 Subject: Re: Trouble loading software > Can someone please tell me how to load GBA Championship Basketball, > Silent Service, Mean 18, Paintworks Gold. I can make a copy of them and > they run, but only if booted from slot 5 disk 1. Its probably something > real simple, but I don't know it. I've got a RamFast rev D an a Fujitsu > hard drive. Oh ya, its hooked up to a an Apple II GS rom 03, running > system 6.0.1 Any help would be appreciated.:) Here is a message I saved from comp.sys.apple2 about patching PaintWorks Gold to run from a hard drive. I tried it and it worked for me. ----- Start included message ----- Path: portnoy!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!uunet!in2.uu.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU freenet.vcu.edu!freenet.vcu.edu!not-for-mail From: twyant@freenet.vcu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Running Paintworks Gold from a Hard Disk Date: 9 Aug 1995 16:55:11 -0400 Organization: Central Virginia's Free-Net Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <40b7bf$hai@freenet.vcu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet.vcu.edu Thanks to all who responded; most of the following comes from correspondance with John P. and Leif Strand. My apologies to them if I have mangled their information. The problem originally posted was "Running Paintworks Gold on a hard disk," or some variant on that theme. It turns out that apparantly the problem is not putting it on a hard disk per se, but changing versions of the O.S. (which you must to to get to the hard disk). The specific symptom is that PWG displays the splash screen and then crashes. Apparantly Paintworks Gold (V1.5) calls on the operating system for a goodly chunk of memory, requesting it at a fixed location which is never available in any modern version of GS/OS. This problem was diagnosed by Jason Harper, and a patch published on AOL (back when they spoke to A2 types). The patch involves looking in the program for the string of hex bytes C9 08 00 D0 CE 00 4C, and changing the second byte from 08 to 7F. This string appears only once. This apparantly causes the memory allocation request to ask for memory wherever it can be found, and allows it to succeed. Although PWG claims to run in 1.25 meg (and will as distributed), Jason recommended at least 1.5 meg to run from a hard disk, to allow for SCSI driver and expansion of GS/OS. Just to close things out; my PWG no longer crashes as soon as it displays the splash screen; instead it crashes about 15 seconds later. I suspect that the problem now is that I haven't got that extra 256K. Even 5.0.4 without the finder (using MicroWings instead) does not cut it. Guess I'll have to fork out for that memory expansion after all. Thanks to everyone for the help! Tom Wyant Opinions expressed in this document are my own, information in it is not guaranteed correct, your milage may vary, and all the other usual weasel words. ----- End included message ----- Hope this helps. * 2qwk! 2.01 * Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. Path: news.uiowa.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.usergroups Subject: Re: Trouble loading software Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:10:34 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 46 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ij29a$mfb@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4i2r0c$jlm@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader In article <4i2r0c$jlm@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>, dx199@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Felix Rosario) writes: >.... >Can someone please tell me how to load .... Paintworks Gold. In article <60.2805.3269.0N20D518@canrem.com>, jeff.blakeney@canrem.com (Jeff Blakeney) replies: >.... >Apparantly Paintworks Gold (V1.5) calls on the operating system >for a goodly chunk of memory, requesting it at a fixed location >which is never available in any modern version of GS/OS. This >problem was diagnosed by Jason Harper, and a patch published on >AOL (back when they spoke to A2 types). The patch involves >looking in the program for the string of hex bytes C9 08 00 D0 >CE 00 4C, and changing the second byte from 08 to 7F. This >string appears only once. This apparantly causes the memory >allocation request to ask for memory wherever it can be found, >and allows it to succeed. Although PWG claims to run in 1.25 meg >(and will as distributed), Jason recommended at least 1.5 meg to >run from a hard disk, to allow for SCSI driver and expansion of >GS/OS. .... It works! Using Copy II Plus 9.1 (Copy 3.5 Sector Editor's Search function), I found C9 08 00 D0 CE on Block $3C5 starting at byte $1DF. To avoid messing up the diskette, it was copied to RAM5. On RAM5, C9 08 00 D0 CE in Block $3C5 was changed to C9 7F 00 DO CE. Clicking PW.GOLD.SYSTEM (from the System6 Finder) started Paintworks Gold without a hitch. I copied PW.GOLD.SYSTEM and the whole PAINTTOOLS folder from RAM5 to a folder on hard disk. It runs fine from there, too. You will notice that the Open File dialog box is missing part of the box outline; but, this causes no problems. Loading and Saving files worked fine. THANKS! (or _Thanks!_) to Jason Harper and Jeff Blakeney for cracking an ancient IIgs puzzle and getting the news out. Rubywand