In their very first Amiga adventures made during the years 1986 and 1987
Sierra used a somewhat nasty copy protection method. The game disk looked
like a standard AmigaDos disk, but on it there was one file (whose name
simply consisted of 8 spaces) with a deliberate read/write error. One
couldn't execute the game unless the broken file was available. Although
this was no problem when playing from the original disk, the unlucky user
of more recent days will not be able to install the game on hard disk at
all.

But the fix is here. This patch will modify the game executable and remove
all references to the protected file thus allowing the user to copy all
the game files wherever he or she wants to. Also the irritating problem
that the game is not able to close its screen upon quitting when using
OS 2.04 or newer is corrected. Only one version of the Space Quest 1 is
supported, namely one from the year 1987. (There might be another version
around compiled one year earlier.)

Note that this fix is only for the original Space Quest 1.

There are two versions of the patch available! One that only fixes the
problems described above, and one that additionally removes the inquiry
of the player's name in the beginning of the game. It's rather needless
because Space Quests 3 and 4 always use "Roger Wilco" as the name of our
Inter-Galactic Hero and professional space janitor!

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[generic]                   74      80  92.5% -lh5- 1791 Jul 27  1997 SQ1-fix/pointer
[generic]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d Jul 27  1997 SQ1-fix/spatch
[generic]                  454     480  94.6% -lh5- cf89 Aug 26  1998 SQ1-fix/SQ.pch
[generic]                 4204    9525  44.1% -lh5- 914b Aug 26  1998 SQ1-fix/SQ1-fix.doc
[generic]                  452     856  52.8% -lh5- 1d05 Aug 30  1998 SQ1-fix/SQ1-fix.doc.info
[generic]                  840    1568  53.6% -lh5- c06f Aug 30  1998 SQ1-fix/SQ1-fix.readme
[generic]                 1727    3244  53.2% -lh5- 6ae6 Aug 26  1998 SQ1-fix/SQ_NO_Name.pch
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