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                           Martin Kiewitz's F2BPATCH
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                             Released on 23.11.2001

                        Written and (c) by Martin Kiewitz
                      Dedicated to Maryse and Gerd Kiewitz
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        This software is 'e-mail ware'. This means, if you use it, please send
         me an e-mail or a greeting card. I just want to see, how much people
         are using it.

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  | FOREWORD |
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        Fade To Black. The game that came after Flashback.
        It has really nice graphics, is able to work in VESA 640x400 and has
         a really good storyline. But it was unable to run under OS/2 / eCS.

        Why ?
        Because many developers are just too dumb to read DPMI specifications.
        If you want more info about that bug, please get IDPATCHR.ZIP.

        First, I applied my standard "Anti-CLI" patch against it, but the game
         quit to DOS after some minutes playing with an obscure error message,
         telling that a timer is bad. Whatever.

        I nuked that part of the timing routine completly and the game seems to
         work perfectly. I played the first level and watched the complete
         demo, so I hope the rest of the game plays okay as well.

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  | F2BPATCH USAGE |
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        Simply run F2BPATCH in your Fade To Black directory.
        It will do the rest by itself.

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  | CONTACT |
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        There are several ways to contact me.
        All-time favourite is my e-mail adresse 'kiewitz@fuckMicrosoft.com'.
        Well, you can use 'martin@kiewitz.de' or 'kiewitz@netlabs.org' as well.

        OS/2 World has some content of mine.
         Look at: http://www.os2world.com/games

        Or you may visit my own private homepage.
         Surf to: http://www.kiewitz.de

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  | GREETZ AND DEDICATIONS |
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        I'm dedicating F2BPATCH to 2 different people.

        First: My daddy Gerd Kiewitz. He died some time ago and I will never
                ever stop loving him
        Second: Maryse...a really great (half-french) girl, that I'm currently
                 really missing much.

        No greetz. Just a simple patch :)

 - Martin Kiewitz
