Ah this story is one of the brilliant examples of things we used to do back then to overcome tech adversity. For me it was adjusting a game executable in college to make it easier to play it used to ask for security every so often so we adjusted the timer on the executable by finding it's hex code and set it to FFFF so it asked once and that's it.
Happy fond memories, one of the reasons I still code in MSDOS and TurboC -Ed On Thu, 3 Jul 2025, 03:42 Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > This story made me smile. > I love tech so creative that even the developer did not realize included > solutions. > I have the full set of the final Norton Utilities for dos, 8 I believe. > I agree your trick would be useful, as would the program having the > ability to recognize several drives. > cheers, > Karen > > > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, Daniel Essin via Freedos-user wrote: > > > Hinall, > > > > Here's a DOS story from 1983. I had just gotten my new IBM XT It had it > had 1 floppy and an hdd. I had a DOS program that was hard-coded to access > the B: drive but, of course the XT didn't have a B: drive. I has the > original Norton Utilities. I used it to open the program file and fond B: > embedded in the executable. I changed the B to an A and saved. Problem > solved. > > > > I wrote to Peter Norton and told him how I used his program. He wrote > back saying: "wow, I didn't know you could do that" > > > > Maybe that sort of thing might still be useful today? > > > > Dan Essin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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