Short: Universal IPS patcher - patches ROM files Author: Steve Nickolas, drunk AOS4 port by Spot'n'Booger/Up Rough Uploader: Spot/Up Rough Type: util/misc Requires: AOS4 an IPS patch file and a ROM file. Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0 This is an IPS patcher. I don't guarantee that it works, but it seems to. I have included a binary for MS-DOS, which will also work under Windows 98 Second Edition and should also have no problems on NT-based systems, since it doesn't do anything "dirty". It's ANSI C, to the best of my knowledge, so it should compile on almost anything. I have also included a Linux ELF statically-linked (against whatever glibc Red Hat 8.0 Linux uses) binary. To run it, first MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FILE YOU ARE PATCHING. This is VERY important! UIPS will NOT preserve your original file, and since it uses a "modify-in-place" system, it will overwrite the file as it stands, meaning that you cannot use an "undelete" program of any kind to recover your lost file. Back up first. Then type: uips filename.ext patch.ips AOS4 port by Spot'n'Booger/Up Rough ---Original ReadMe bellow!--- where "filename.ext" is the name of the data file you intend to patch, and "patch.ips" is the name of the patch file. You must include the extension of .IPS if present, since UIPS will *not* add it on automatically. I hope you know what you're doing. You should see a little copyright blurb, then the command prompt should return. If you got no messages except the blurb you should be fine. Test and see. There are a lot of "maybes" when using IPS. As I said, UIPS should compile on almost anything. However, I have only a PC running Win98SE and a modified Red Hat 8.0 Linux to test on, and I have only done minimal testing, using these binaries. Please let me know if you have trouble compiling UIPS especially on a non-Intel system. If you have gcc (djgpp, mingw32, cygwin, etc.), try typing "gcc -o uips uips.c". Steve Nickolas 2003.0428 2004.0112