FOR THE USERS THAT HAVE 'TK!SOLVER' TK-1(2J)/PCDOS/IBM5150
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  IF YOU HAVE A HARD DISK OR WANT TO CREATE A BACKUP COPY THAT IS NOT
TIED INTO THE 'TK!'  DISKETTE...IN CASE YOUR ONLY COPY GOES BAD
.. THIS PATCH WILL REMOVE THE COPY PROTECTION COMPLETELY.... AS WELL
AS LET TK! RUN AS A STAND ALONE PROGRAM.

  AS ALWAYS THIS IS FOR YOUR PERSONAL PEACE OF MIND ONLY
IT IS NOT MEANT TO BYPASS ANY COPYRIGHTS..YOU ARE BY LAW BOUND BY
YOUR PURCHASE LICENSE AGREEMENT.

  IF YOU HAVE A HARD DISK AND WANT TO PUT THE PROGRAM ON SUCH
WHY SHOULD YOU BE TIED TO A FLOPPY. YOU HAD TO GIVE UP A LOT OF
MONEY TO GET YOUR HARD DISK.

 FIRST OF ALL WHEN I REFER TO THE "B:" DRIVE , IF YOU HAVE A HARD DISK,
SUBSTITUTE THE APPROPRIATE DRIVE LETTER FOR THE "B:" DRIVE. I ALSO ASSUME
THAT THE ORIGINAL "TK!" IS IN THE "A:" DRIVE.

1). FORMAT 1 SYSTEM DISK UNDER DOS 2.0 OR 2.1

2). LABEL IT ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL 'TK!' DISKETTE

3). COPY THE (UNHIDDEN) FILES FROM THE ORIGINAL DISKETTE TO THE CORRESPONDING
   2.X FORMATTED DISKETTE

4). PUT THE ORIGINAL 'TK!' DISKETTE IN THE "A:" DRIVE

5). COPY CON: B:SOFTARTS.(C)

     ENTER :THAT'S ALL FOLKS!
     PRESS :CNTL-Z THEN ENTER

     YOU SHOULD SEE: 1 FILE(S) COPIED MESSAGE

     THIS TAKES CARE OF THE HIDDEN FILES.

6). I WONT  TELL YOU HOW TO USE DEBUG OR  ANY 'PATCHER' PROGRAMS.

7). FIRST I ASSUME THAT YOU HAVE DEBUG.COM ON A RAM OR C: OR B: DRIVE .

8). ENTER >DEBUG

    ENTER -N A:TK.COM
          -F CS:100 L EFFF 0
          -L
          -N B:TK2.COM
          -R CX
          :EFFF
          -W
          -Q

9). ENTER >B:DEBUG B:TK2.COM


    ENTER -E 951 90 90 90                  'THIS DISABLES BREAK POINT
          -E 957 90 90 90                  ' AND SINGLE STEP OVERIDES
          -E 511 CC

    NOTE: THE ORIGINAL TK! SHOULD NOW BE IN THE "A:" DRIVE

          -G

    NOTE: PROGRAM SHOULD STOP AT CS:511

          WHAT WE DID WAS LET TK! READ ALL THE OTHER PIECES OF HIMSELF
          FROM THE VARIOUS DISK SECTORS (THE GOOD AND BAD SECTORS),
          DO ALL THE DECRYPTING AND SET UP ALL AREAS OF HIMSELF,
          IN OTHERWORDS WE LET HIM DO ALL THE WORK FOR US. WE DIDNT
          EVEN HAVE TO FOOL WITH BAD TRACKS, OR ANY DECRYPTING OURSELVES
          OH THE REASON FOR WRITING TK2.COM WITH LENGTH OF "EFFF"
          WAS TO RESERVE THIS PROGRAM AREA SIZE SO WHEN TK! RAN HE
          WOULD BUILD ALL HIS ROUTINES IN "OUR" PROTECTED PROGRAM AREA,
          THEN  WE CAN SAVE TK2.COM AS TK3.COM WITH ALL THE
          TK! SAFELY STORED IN OUR PROTECTED TK2 MEMORY AREA.


          -E 511 E8
          -E 57C CC
          -G
          -E 57C FF
          -T
          -R

    NOTE: AT THIS POINT COPY DOWN ALL THE REGISTERS AND FLAGS SETTINGS
         A SHIFT PRTSC WILL DO IT.

          -R AX 0
          -R BX 0
          -R CX EFFF
          -R DX 0
          -N B:TK3.COM
          -W
          -R AX 0
          -R BX B230
          -R CX A000
          -R DX 5898

        NOTE AT THIS POINT  "BP" REGISTER HAD BETTER BE ZEROS

          -G


         PRESS THE "ENTER" KEY SINCE TK!SOLVER IS WAITING.

     NOTE: TK! SHOULD NOW COME UP AS IT NORMALLY WOULD


    NOW REBOOT THE SYSTEM WITH A DOS SYSTEM DISK IN A DRIVE.
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10). ENTER >B:DEBUG B:TK3.COM

     ENTER -E 951 E8 46 FF                ;RESTORE CNTL-BREAK,BREAKPOINT
           -E 957 E8 51 FF




      WHAT WE WILL DO NEXT IS BYBASS ALL THE SECTOR READ CODE, DECRYPT LOGIC
    SINCE TK! HAS ALREADY DONE THAT ONCE AND PUT IT IN OUR PROTECTED PROGRAM
    AREA THAT WAS SAVED AS TK3.COM.


                                (CODE THAT SHOULD BE GENERATED)

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     ENTER -A 252 MOV SI,1230             ;BE3012
                  MOV DI,0100             ;BF0001
                  MOV AX,0                ;B80000
                  MOV BX,B230             ;BB30B2
                  MOV CX,A000             ;B900A0
                  MOV DX,5898             ;BA9858
                  MOV SP,B2AD             ;BCADB2
                  MOV BP,0                ;BD0000
                  JMP BX                  ;FFE3


           -N B:TK4.COM
           -W
           -Q


11). PLACE YOUR ORIGINAL TK! IN A SAFE PLACE SINCE IT WILL NO LONGER BE NEEDED


12). PLACE DISK WITH TK4.COM IN "A:" DRIVE OR RUN FROM HARD DISK


    ENTER >TK4

          YOU SHOULD SEE THE ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT SCREEN AND THE PROGRAM
        WILL JUST SIT THERE. YOU MUST PRESS ENTER SINCE THE MESSAGE
        'PRESS ENTER TO START" IS NOW BEING BYPASSED.

         IF ALL WENT WELL YOU NOW HAVE AN UNPROTECTED, DECRYPTED, STANDALONE
       VERSION OF TK!SOLVER.....

NOTE: NOW ALL OF 'TK!' COPY PROTECTION IS REMOVED, AND YOU MAY DISKCOPY

     (OR COPY)  AND RENAME TK4.COM TO TK.COM.


OTHER NOTES:
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1). CHECKS FOR SPECIALLY FORMATTED TRACKS COMPLETELY REMOVED


2). YOU MAY LOAD ALL THE FILES ON THE NEWLY FORMATTED AND UNPROTECTED
   DISKETTE DIRECTLY TO HARD OR RAM DISK, IN ANY SUB-DIRECTORY YOU
   SET UP