🚀 go-pugleaf

On 7 Dec 1996 08:28:07 GMT, "vaughn" <co...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>help ... My darling lifetime partner has dictated that the behaviour of the
>bad guys and the good guys is not appropriate. So, she has activated the
>parental lock. If anyone has some hints on how to de-activate please advise
>as quickly as possible as I considering filling for divorce on Monday.
>
Well you could just re-install it, but I noticed that you have an
Australian return email address.   A re-installation probably won't
work because the Aussie version (at your government's insistence) has
the parental lock permanently turned on.  I suggest you divorce your
politicians in the next election.  As to your wife, well, that's up to
you.  Blame her if you like, but Down Under the game comes out of the
box with the lock locked on. 

Regardless, there is a way to hack the files to disable the parental
lock in the Aussie version.   I suggest you back up any important Duke
files you have before you use it, just in case you mess up. Or keep
the CD handy.

Fix for the Australian censored version:

1.	backup the original duke3d.exe incase of a mistake
	eg.  copy duke3d.exe duke3d.bak

2.	Rename duke3d.exe to duke3d.bin
	eg.	ren duke3d.exe duke3d.bin

3.	Run debug program from DOS
	eg.	debug duke3d.bin

3a.	Enter these commands
	-E 200 58
	-E 210 58
	-W
	-Q

4.	Rename duke3d.bin back to duke3d.exe
	eg. ren duke3d.bin duke3d.exe

5.	Type edit duke3d.cfg
	Look for the line that says
	Environment = " "
	and change it to
	Environment = "" (ie.remove the space between talk marks)
	Look for the line that says
	Out = 1
	Change it to
	Out = 0 (thats a numeric zero)

Save the file, exit back to DOS and run duke3d

(The Aussie fix was copied from a post by the ever-helpful Vanth).

wb
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"[T]here's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
-- Bill Gates to the Associated Press, November 1996.