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  • What I love about AI...

    From nelgin@1:103/705 to All on Sat Oct 24 00:45:37 2026
    is how dumb it is.

    I started with Gemini asking it to create a patch to mark an abandonware game as registered and it refused.

    After several attempts at forcing it, Gemini did off to assist me using a debugger to look at code and after a few hours of experimentation, not only did it write me the assembly code to patch the binary, it also wrote me a very nice lay persons guide on how it is accomplished on a generic basis.

    This could open the door to finding ways to finally get abandonware games that cannot be registered by usual means into a registered status.

    If anyone has any games they'd like me to attempt then let me know:
    1. Download location of the latest version of the game
    Note, these should be 16 bit DOS games. I'm not trying to do Windows
    binaries.

    2. That you have made a good faith effort to find the owner of the game

    3. If the owner finds you and asks for payment, you pay up, once you've
    confirmed they're legit, of course.

    I'm also interested in games that are not running properly under DOSEMU2.

    Thanks,

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 20:37:57 2026
    Subject: Re: What I love about AI...
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    nelgin wrote to All <=-

    This could open the door to finding ways to finally get abandonware
    games that cannot be registered by usual means into a registered
    status.

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.


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  • From nelgin@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 25 04:54:37 2026
    Re: Re: What I love about AI...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 2026 20:37:57

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.

    Download link for the latest version?

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  • From nelgin@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 25 05:16:42 2026
    Re: Re: What I love about AI...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 2026 20:37:57

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.

    I think I found it. Telix 3.51 for DOS? I'll take a look.

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to nelgin on Sun Oct 25 09:16:11 2026
    nelgin wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: What I love about AI...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 2026 20:37:57

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.

    I think I found it. Telix 3.51 for DOS? I'll take a look.

    Cool, I'm interested in this also.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to nelgin on Sun Oct 25 09:56:21 2026
    Subject: Re: What I love about AI...
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    nelgin wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: What I love about AI...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 2026 20:37:57

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.

    Download link for the latest version?

    https://archive.org/details/TLX3211_ZIP

    Interested to see what you could do with it...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to nelgin on Sun Oct 25 09:56:21 2026
    Subject: Re: What I love about AI...
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    nelgin wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: What I love about AI...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 24 2026 20:37:57

    Not a game, but I'd love a nag-free TELIX. I bought it back in the day,
    lost my key. There's a patch that runs to get rid of the nag screen at
    exit, but it still blinks UNREGISTERED in the status line.

    I think I found it. Telix 3.51 for DOS? I'll take a look.

    I thought 3.21 was the newest, but if memory serves, they changed the
    company name and incremented the version. Either should be roughly the
    same...



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