Re: Dos App hangs with DPMI / PIC problem

Ryan Underwood
2004-09-15T21:00:44Z

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:54:17PM +1200, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, anon permutation wrote:
>
> >
> > >The other thing is that you can try patching the conditional jump
> > >immediately after that comparison that never succeeds:
> > >c316:9036 F64408FF test [si+0x8],0xff
> > >c316:903a 7408 je 9044
> >
> > how do i "patch" this jump?
>
> in dosdebug type:
>
> e c316:903a 75
>
> that will change the "je" to jne. I had to do something similar for
> command keen 4, it was hanging in a very similar way.

Are you speaking about during the system features detection (the first
screen)? I have a hang there too, and in fact any similar ID/Apogee
game which has a screen like that. I haven't any idea what it's sitting
there waiting on....

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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