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Posted by: Bod/STAX
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Jun,20.2012-21:23
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I was having a bit of a think the other day to some old game cracks.
Back in the day a lot of crakers used to have lots of little files on disk where they had converted the game back to files. They would set up a ram disk and load each of these various files into that ram disk which is why you used to get a bit of loading, background colour flash (depacking), a bit more loading, colour flash etc and then the game would run.
As I recall a couple of games I had (can't remember the names, I think they were on a Pompey Pirates menu) had one file on disk (only room on disk for one game) that was a 700K .PRG and when you copied that .PRG the whole 700K would copy but when you ran it the first few KB would load and run and then these few KB would handle the loading of various parts of the rest of the .PRG
I was wondering this was done. The handling of the loading of the .PRG from within the code is relatively straight forward as all you need to know is the relevant offsets and lengths of data to load but how to you let GEMDOS know to just load those first few KB of the program?
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,20.2012-21:23
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Klaz
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Jun,20.2012-22:03
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,20.2012-23:06
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ggn
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Jun,20.2012-23:22
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Pete
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Jun,21.2012-06:30
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,21.2012-11:39
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showaddywaddy
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Jun,22.2012-17:54
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,22.2012-21:51
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,23.2012-00:24
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,23.2012-00:39
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,23.2012-12:39
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ggn
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Jun,23.2012-21:59
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ggn
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Jun,23.2012-22:05
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,23.2012-23:48
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,23.2012-23:53
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ggn
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Jun,24.2012-00:11
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,24.2012-11:19
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Showaddywaddy
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Jun,24.2012-11:26
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,24.2012-12:00
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ggn
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Jun,24.2012-12:52
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Showaddywaddy
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Jun,24.2012-13:31
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defjam
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Jun,24.2012-17:25
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Bod/STAX
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Jun,24.2012-18:04
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