Short: List of patches to remove protection from software Author: Mark Knibbs Type: game/patch Amiga Patch List release 2.0 (20-Jan-1996) NOTE TO SYSOPS/MODERATORS: If you are concerned about the legality of this document, bear in mind that FreeCopy, which performs a similar function to the patches given here, is widely available - for example on Aminet FTP sites. This file contains a list of various patches for commercial Amiga software, to remove manual- and disk-based copy-protection. It is freely distributable. The 73 programs covered in this release are: A Mind Forever Voyaging (Infocom) Art of Chess (SPA) Back to the Future II (Images/Imageworks) Balance of Power 1990 (Mindscape) Barbarian - The Ultimate Warrior (Palace) Battle Command (Realtime Games/Ocean) Beast Busters (Images Design/Activision) Birds of Prey (Argonaut/Electronic Arts) Breach (Omnitrend/Artronic) Brian the Lion AGA (Reflections/Psygnosis) Budokan (Electronic Arts) Bureaucracy (Infocom) Castles (Interplay Productions) Champions of Krynn (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) Chess Player 2150 (Oxford Softworks) CJ in the USA (Genesis Software/Codemasters) CJ's Elephant Antics (Genesis Software/Codemasters) Colorado (Silmarils/Action 16) Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware) Demon's Tomb - The Awakening (Silhouette Software/Melbourne House) Dennis AGA (Ocean) D/Generation (Mindscape) Dizzy Collection (Codemasters) DragonStrike (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) Emerald Mine (Kingsoft) E-motion (The Assembly Line/US Gold) Epic (Digital Image Design/Ocean) Escape From Singe's Castle (ReadySoft) ESWAT (U.S. Gold) Extensor (Golden Games/Smash 16) F/A-18 Interceptor (Electronic Arts) Formula One Grand Prix (Geoff Crammond/MicroProse) Frontier (David Braben/Gametek) Gods (Bitmap Brothers/Renegade) Gridrunner (Llamasoft) Gunship (MicroProse) Kelly X (16 Blitz) Knights of the Sky (MicroProse) Kult (Ere Informatique/Exxos) Line of Fire (Creative Materials/U.S. Gold) M1 Tank Platoon (MicroProse) Magnetic Scrolls Collection Volume 1 (Magnetic Scrolls) Mindfighter (Abstract Concepts/Activision) MovieSetter (Gold Disk) Ogre (Origin) Oscar AGA (Flair) Pool (Icon Design/Mastertronic) Ports of Call (Aegis) PowerMonger (Bullfrog Productions/Electronic Arts) Pro Tennis Tour II (Blue Byte/Ubi Soft) Railroad Tycoon (MicroProse) Scroller 2 (The Soft Alternative) Seymour Goes to Hollywood (Codemasters) Silent Service (MicroProse) SimEarth (Maxis) Sorcerer (Infocom) Spellbreaker (Infocom) Starglider (Argonaut Software/Rainbird) Stationfall (Infocom) Storm Across Europe (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) Super Seymour Saves the Planet (Codemasters) Super Tetris (Spectrum Holobyte) Sword of Aragon (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) The Amazing Spiderman (Oxford Digital Enterprises/Empire) Theme Park Mystery (Joined Up Software/Imageworks) The Settlers (Blue Byte) Thunderboy (Time Warp Productions) Vaxine (The Assembly Line/US Gold) Wings (Cinemaware) Wizball (Ocean) Wonder Dog (Core Design) Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls) Zool 2 AGA (Gremlin Graphics) Version History 1.0 Initial release (not widely distributed). 1.1 Various minor changes, and the following new patches: AMFV release 79 Frontier 'Version to Gametek (Release 4) 1.05' Sorcerer releases 13, 18 Stationfall release 107 Thunderboy 1.2 More minor changes, and the following new patches: Breach 1.02e Kult Mindfighter Ogre 1.06 The Settlers Corrected version of Frontier to 1.05 in patch list. Added information to (hopefully) allow any version of Frontier to be patched. 1.3 More minor changes, and the following new patches: Budokan Emerald Mine (three versions) Epic 3.17 Extensor Gods 1.00 MovieSetter 1.0P Starglider Bug fix! Added another word to alter for 'The Settlers' patch. The old patch in v1.2 of this list was incomplete, and meant that the machine would crash after a while. 1.4 More minor changes, and the following new patches: Champions of Krynn 1.0 Demon's Tomb - The Awakening 1.00 DragonStrike 1.0 ESWAT Gridrunner 28/2/90 Line of Fire Storm Across Europe 1.0 Sword of Aragon 1.0 1.5 The following new patch added: Colorado 1.6 Yet more minor changes, and the following new patches added: Back to the Future II Theme Park Mystery 1.7 The following new patches added: CJ in the USA Dizzy Collection 1.8 Converted list to AmigaGuide format. Reformatted text to 77 columns. Added note to sysops/moderators. More minor changes. Changed my addresses. Removed Rob Northen flame. Changed AMFV and Sorcerer patches. The idea is to preserve gameplay as much as possible - now the game always asks for the same number or sequence of buttons; you are able to enter an incorrect number or sequence as in the original versions. Added note for Infocom patches. Changed name to Amiga Patch List; there aren't only games any more. The following new patches added: Barbarian - The Ultimate Warrior UK PAL Version 24/03/88 Beast Busters Brian the Lion AGA A1200 Computer Combat version Bureaucracy release 116 Castles CJ's Elephant Antics Dennis AGA Gunship 832.03 Oscar AGA Pro Tennis Tour II Scroller 2 1.01 Seymour Goes to Hollywood Silent Service 825.03 SimEarth Spellbreaker release 87 Super Seymour Saves the Planet Wizball Wonder Dog Zool 2 AGA A1200 Computer Combat version 1.81 Very minor changes (not released, as far as I can remember). The following new patch added: Pinball Fantasies AGA 1.9 More changes. Information on how to bypass protection in Chess Player 2150 added (there's a 'backdoor'), and the following new patches added: Super Tetris 2.0 Added 'Where to find tools' section. The following new patches added: E-motion Astra Pack version Kelly X PowerMonger ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 79268 24953 68.5% 20-Jan-96 15:06:44 +AmigaPatchList2.0.guide 5846 2604 55.4% 20-Jan-96 15:06:16 +AmigaPatchList2.0.readme 3344 1938 42.0% 22-May-94 15:29:54 +ByteKiller1.3 4223 2080 50.7% 01-Mar-00 18:31:14 +ByteKiller1.3.doc 3344 1934 42.1% 02-Oct-95 12:56:50 +ByteKiller1.3.noforbid 4104 3038 25.9% 28-Feb-92 10:57:58 +CRC 268 241 10.0% 02-Nov-95 21:08:08 +Head 24 21 12.5% 02-Nov-95 21:12:20 +Tail 40 38 5.0% 31-Jul-94 20:29:54 +Part1 12 12 0.0% 31-Jul-94 20:30:50 +Part2 16 16 0.0% 31-Jul-94 20:31:30 +Part3 -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 100489 36875 63.3% 28-Jan-96 12:20:20 11 files