Warlock the Avenger trainer

[asle]

Hello,

I've struggle to extract the trainer (by Supplex) for the game Warlock the Avenger.
I understand the bootblock read 0x1000 from 0x400, but ...
ah, well, if anyone can make an exe out of it

I've put the first 0x1400 bytes in the following file :
http://asle.free.fr/exotica/diskheader.raw

Thanks
Sylvain

[StingRay]

I just had 30 seconds to waste and created an executable version of that very trainer. You can find it here: http://stingray.untergrund.net/supplex.exe

In case you're interested, this is all that I needed to do:

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	lea	d+$400(pc),a0
	pea	$30000
	move.l	(a7),a1
	move.w	#$1000/4-1,d7
loop	move.l	(a0)+,(a1)+
	dbf	d7,loop
	rts	


d	incbin	windoze:diskheader.raw

As you can see it's not exactly rocket science.

[asle]

ok, well, indeed, it's not "rocket science". Still it's not something I can do . So THANKS!. This prod was now added on Kestra :
http://kestra.exotica.org.uk/demo.php?id=24849

By looking at the binary, I see you simply don't care about what's in the bootblock. You just add something in front of it. Basically, this :

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41 FA 04 16 48 79 00 03 00 00 22 57 3E 3C 03 FF
22 D8 51 CF FF FC 4E 75

Ok, I repeat, I can't do that, simply because I don't read/write 68k.
Still, I've had some luck in the past with various other bootblocks by taking data from a "look alike" sequence :

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48 E7 FF FE

Then, by simply adding a standard EXE header, it would work. Ah well, anyway. Thanks again for this. I'll try to repeat this if some other case appear.

With regards,
Sylvain

[StingRay]

Ok, I repeat, I can't do that, simply because I don't read/write 68k.

Of course you can, it's not hard. Here's what I did:

I disassembled the bootblock of your file, to do that I just created a small source which looked like:

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d incbin windoze:diskheader.raw

after assembling it, I just typed "dd+12" in Asm1 to disassemble (+12 to skip the first 3 longs, i.e. the bootblock header).
the code looked like this:

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movem.l	d0-a6,-(a7)			; save regs
move.l	#$1000,$24(a1)		; length in bytes
move.l	#$400,$2c(a1)		; start offset
move.l	#$30000,$28(a1)		; destination address
move.l	$4,a6
jsr	-456(a6)				; call Exec's DoIO() routine, i.e. load the file
move.w #$8100,$dff096		; enable bitplane DMA
jsr	$30000
movem.l	(a7)+,d0-a6

Now, if you compare that to the code I pasted above you shouldn't have problems to understand what I did and why I did it. Basically I just "emulated" the loading from disk by copying the data to the right location. Whenever you see code like that you can easily create an executable. You need to know 3 things:
1. the start offset [-> $2c(a1)]
2. the length [-> $24(a1)]
3. the destination address [-> $28(a1)]

Once you have that info you can just adapt my "copyloop" above with the right parameters and it should work. Hope that helps, if something is unclear feel free to ask. =)

[asle]

is there a doc of this, somewhere ?