Subject: Re: G.I. Joe won't run...
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:31:45 GMT
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In article <39A2FC76.B5A4ED1A@germanynet.de>,
  Manuel Polik <101.36834@germanynet.de> wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> And once more an epyx related thing. From this last working (asian)
> asimov mirror I got 'G.I. Joe'. No I can't run it properly on any
> emulator. So far I tried applepc, applewin & oasis. It's the same
> picture everywhere: A cracking intro is shown, I press 'space' or
> 'return' and the game starts to load... and loads... and loads... I
> waited up to 10 minutes on every emulator until I finally gave up.
>
> Now, am I doing something wrong? What can I do to fix this? Is there
any
> known emulator/configuration combination that will run the image on a
> win95/dos emulator?
>
> Any help appreciated.
> If it is not possible to run it on win/dos at all, maybe someone could
> do/provide screenshots anyway (using linux or a mac probably...)?
>
> Manuel
>

I have found a file in my harddisk (it maybe download from asimov
or newsgroup).  It tells how to fix this:

    To get GI Joe to run, change the bytes D0 F1 to EA EA at
    offset $0125 (track 0, sector 1, byte $25) of the disk image
    for side 1 of the game.
    Without this change, the disk will spin forever after displaying the
    cracker's title page.  This worked for AppleWin, so perhaps it will
    work for the other emulators as well.

Hope this helps.

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