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The Ultimate Degrader & Enhancer Version 1.0d by N.O.M.A.D
Documentation
Forward
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This is my latest work, since i gave up cracking in January 1994
i have been able to sort out my life and i am off to college in a
week or so, because of the nature of my course i need to buy an
IBM compatible PC, the amiga im afraid is to be sold to pay for
a 486 DX2/66.
This program has been sitting on my hardrive for a while, i HAVE
to release it in its BETA form, or it will never get released at
all, i may be able to afford to buy another amiga in a year or two
but college is my main priority.
Enjoy this program, and feel free to update it, but please remember
to at least credit me for my work on it, after all it will be my
last Amiga project for a while, in fact i may never return to the
Amiga, who knows?
To my friends in the amiga scene, and to all the crews i have cracked
(deprotected) software for:
FAIRLIGHT,MINISTRY,QUARTEX,CRYSTAL,DEFJAM & ANGELS,GENESIS,SCOOPEX
Thankyou.
N.O.M.A.D
Chapter
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1. About
2. Copyrights & Distribution details
3. TUDE options and their uses
Chapter 1.
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- About The Ultimate Degrader & Enhancer -
TUDE has been in development for a few months, i needed a degrader
type program that offered more flexibility than any of the currently
available programs (Relokick, my own RunIt, Degrader, Runlame etc.),
in one easy to use package. So TUDE was born.
Two versions of TUDE are included, a CLI version and a GUI version.
Chapter 2.
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- Copyright & distribution notices -
The Ultimate Degrader & Enhancer (TUDE) is Copyrighted material.
TUDE is copyrighted by N.O.M.A.D and is available as Freeware.
TUDE is freely distributable provided the following rules are respected:
1. No charge except reasonable media costs may be levied.
2. The program and documentation may not be modified in any way.
I am in no way liable for damages, incidental or consequential, arising
from the use or misuse of The Ultimate Degrader & Enhancer, or for any
claim by any other party.
Use this program at your own risk.
No warranty is given either expressed or implied.
Copyright and distribution terms are subject to change without notice.
Chapter 3.
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- TUDES options and their uses -
TUDEGUI is a Gadget User Interface version of TUDE
TUDE is the CLI version of tude
NOTE: TUDE must be in your C: directory for the TUDEGUI to work.
The kickstart 1.3 file (kick34005.a500) must be in your SYS:
directory or in DEVS:KICKSTARTS
HELP
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Option type:
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This option will display simple instructions for each of the options
available in TUDE, a more detailed explanation for each option is
contained in these docs.
PRIVILEGED
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Option type: PATCH
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Since the 68010, certain CPU instructions must be run in supervisor
mode or they will cause what is know as a privileged error.
This option intercepts the error and executes the instruction as
the 68000 would.
If the software you are using continually crashes with error 80000008
or just crashes for no reason, try this option.
MMURESET
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Option Type: Run Once
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If you have a 68851 or a full 680x0 CPU i.e. not the EC version, it
will have some special hardware called a Memory Management Unit, this
allows the user to remap areas of memory to another address, write
protect memory and other useful options.
This option resets the MMU to its default values so that the memory
is in its original bootup state. NOTE: If you are using the MMU to
remap kickstart to fast memory, this option will crash your machine
( for obvious reasons ! ).
There is no real way of detecting if the MMU is to blame for your
softwares failure, just try the option.
BLANKVIEW
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option resets the display to a blank ECS type screen, it will
stay in this state until the software opens its own.
Since the release of kickstart 3 and the AGA chipset, many programs
suffer a corrupt screen problem when run from HardDrive or Workbench.
This will cure the problem 90% of the time, however use of the CHIPSET
or FMODE options in conjunction with BLANKVIEW will cure the remaining
10%.
OSPATCHOLD
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Option Type: PATCH
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This option patches certain library vectors to return OS1.3 values
without the need to kickup in kickstart 1.3
Some software relies heavily on the values being returned by the OS
to be the same as kickstart 1.3, a perfect example of return value
differences is in kickstart 2.0+'s memory routines. If the software
fails due to memory problems or just fails for no reason, try this
option
NOFASTMEMORY
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Option Type: PATCH
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This option allocates all the fast memory it can, and patches the OS
so that any programs that allocate memory only get chipram.
Some programs will not run with fast memory, especially if run on
A4000/A3000 and CD32's. In the majority of cases, no error will be
given the software will just crash, just try this option if others fail.
HARDRESET
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option Resets the CPU - all attached peripherals & Execbase, your machine will be in the same state as it was when you first powered on.
If after running some software, your machine behaves weird, use this
option, saves you having to power off all the time!
As a side effect, it kills all known viruses DEAD
KICKSTART1.3
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option will "kickdown" your machine to kickstart 1.3 with ANY
of TUDES available options i.e. PRIVILEGED, CHIPMEM=512k, NOFASTMEMORY
etc. This makes it a VERY powerful option.
KICKSTART1.3 DEGRADE will be one of your most used options, if software
is going to work without alteration, this will probably do it!
MEMTOP
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option affects all TUDES PATCH options, it forces them to take
their memory from the top of the memory list.
NOTE: Kickstart 2.0 or above needed.
Even though programs can be fixed with TUDES options, sometimes
the patches will be overwritten if in lower memory, this stops that
happening by placing them high up in the available memory.
MEMCHIP
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option affects all TUDES PATCH options, it forces them to take
their memory from ChipRam. MEMTOP & MEMCHIP can be mixed.
NOTE: Kickstart 2.0 or above needed.
Even though programs can be fixed with TUDES options, sometimes
the patches will be overwritten if in FAST memory, this stops that
happening by placing them in ChipRam.
DEGRADE
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option checks the machine it is running on and selects what it
thinks are the best options to degrade the machine as much as possible.
If you have not got a clue why software fails, try this option.
ENHANCE
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option checks the machine it is running on and selects what it
thinks are the best options to enhance the machine as much as possible.
If you want to turn on all the available power in your machine, this
is for you!
OPTFILE=<filename>
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Option Type: Run Once
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This option reads in an ASCII textfile and passes it as commands for
TUDE to execute.
If you are a cli user, once you have found out what makes a particular
piece of software run, create a textfile with the options needed
and just use it with TUDE via this option.
Saves all that retyping!
FAKEFAST=[1|2|3]
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Option type: Run Once
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This option gives chipram only machines fast memory by fooling the OS
into thinking that any chipram above a