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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 18:50:33 -0400
From: "Aaron Giles"
Subject: Rebel Assault PowerPC patch
Rebel Assault PowerPC Patch
written by Aaron Giles
September 10, 1994
IMPORTANT: This patch is neither sanctioned by nor produced by LucasArts
Entertainment Co. It is a homebrew patch to speed up pixel doubling on PowerPC
machines. It may crash your machine; it may cause other problems. USE IT AT
YOUR OWN RISK!! Both LucasArts Entertainment and the patchÕs author, Aaron
Giles, disclaim any responsibility for data loss or other damages incurred
through the use of this patch.
This patch is a quick and dirty attempt to provide some speed gains when playing
Rebel Assault on a PowerPC machine. It replaces some of the emulated
direct-to-screen drawing functions with native PowerPC code. Note that it only
works for some window modes: you must have DIRECT SCREEN BLAST ON and LARGE
IMAGE SIZE. However, you will get acceleration regardless of the settings of
the Skip Video Rows and Vertical Stretch options.
This patcher has been successfully used to update both version 1.0 and version
1.0.2 of the Rebel Assaultª application.
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Aaron Giles (giles@med.cornell.edu)
Power Macintosh & Newton Developer, Cornell University Medical College
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