David Cook
Well-known member
I ran across something I have never seen before. Maybe someone else has.
This is a commercial FWB floppy disk. I assumed it had the FWB Hard Disk Toolkit for SCSI drives. Nope. It was an earlier product (?) offered by FWB to crack (?) software so that it could be moved to and used on a hard disk?


Hard Disk Util v3.0e Notes 3/28/90
© 1985-1990 FWB Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Duplication Illegal.
Program patchable through normal patching procedure: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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4th Dimension 1.0.4 Intl, 4th Dimension 3.0/3.2.4/4.0 (French), 4th Dimension Intl Runtime, Airborne , Alkaatib 1.1, Animal Kingdom , ArchiCAD 3.1.eng.full.ii/3.3, Art of War at Sea , Atlas 1.2/1.4, Balance of Power 1.03, Balance of Power 1990 , Bibliolink 1.0, Brattacus , Breach , Brock Keystroke 1/8 3/22, Bulk Mailer 1.15-2.14, Business Filevision , Calculator Construction Set , Cause 1.0, Chequebook , Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer , Colony , Compugraphic DMS , Crystal Quest , Cutthroats , Deja Vu (Mindscape), Deja Vu (Rubicon), DeskToppers , DietMac 1.0, Dollars and $ense 1.3, Electric Checkbook 1.1, Enchanted Scepters , Ensemble 1.0, Experlisp 1.04, Ferrari Grand Prix 1.27-1.37, Filevision 1.0, Fokker Triplane , Forecast 1.0-1.2, Front Desk 3.0, Futuria , Geometry old, Grid Wars , Griffin Terminal , HabaCheckminder , HabaComm , Habadex 1.0/2.0, Hayden Speller 1.0-1.2c, Hex , Hippo Almanac , Hippo Jokes , Hippo Lock , HitchHiker's Guide , Home Accountant 1.01-2, I Know its Here Somewhere , ][ in the Mac 1.0/2.0, KidTalk 1.0, King's Quest 1 & 2 v1.1, King's Quest 3 & Color, Leisure Suit Larry , Lode Runner 1.0/1.2, Lunar Rescue , Mac-a-Mug 1.0, MacBackup 3.0-3.5, MacDrums , MacFATS 1.0, MacFortran 2.0, MacGolf 1.0/2.0/3.0 Classic, MacIndexer 1.0, MacInfoSystem 1.1B, MacOneWrite A/R 1.2, MacOneWrite Cash 2.2, MacOneWrite G/L, MacPlot 1.6/2.0/2.2, MacPlots// 1.01/2.0-2.5, MacPlots// Draft 2.51, MacPublisher II 2.0-2.69, MacRacquetball 1.0, MacRobots, MacSafe 1.03, MacSpin 1.0/1.1/1.11, Mavis Beacon Typing , MegaFiler 2.0, MegaForm 2.1, Megamerge 3.0, MGM Plot Install , MGM Station 1.0/1.01, MicroPlanner 4.4, MicroPlanner+ 5.2-5.7, Might and Magic , Moebius , MouseWrite 1.0-2.17, MS-Chart 1.0, MS-Excel 1.51 Italian, MS-File 1.0-1.04, MS-Flight Sim 1.0/1.02, MS-Multiplan 1.02-1.1, MS-Word 1.0-1.15, MS-Word 3.01 (French), MS-Word 3.01 Italian, MS-Word 3.01 Spanish, My Office , myDiskLabeller 1.1, Ogre , Omnis 3+ 3.21/3.22, OverVue 1.0/2.0a, PageMaker 1.1/1.2, Penguin's Revenge , Performer 1.21/1.22, Personal Accountant , PFS File/Report A.03, PrintShop 1.0-1.2, Professional Bibliographer 2.5-2.6, Professional Composer 1.0/2.0, Psion Chess 1.0/1.5/1.6, Puppy Love , Quartet 1.0, Quik Circuit 2.0, Ragtime 1.0, Ragtime 2.01 Dutch, Rambo , Ready Set Go 3.0 Hebrew, Road Racer , Rogue , Salary Magic , Sargon /// , Scriptwriter 1.01-1.22, ShadowGate , Sierra Boxing , Smart Eyes , Space Quest , Space Quest II 2.0D, SpaceEdit 1.5/2.0, Speller Bee 1.0-1.21, Studio Session 1.1/1.2, The Mist , The Uninvited 4/24 7/8, ThinkTank 128 , ThinkTank 512 1.1/1.2, Triple Play 1 , Typing Intrigue , Typing Made Easy 1.4, Turbo Turtle , Ultima /// , Universe II , Utopia , Verificateur 1.8, VideoWorks , View to a Kill , Wizardry 1.10, Word Attack 1.0, Word Challenge II
Program patchable through normal patching procedure: (Floppy compatible only)
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AlterEgo Male, Borrowed Time , Certificate Maker 1.0-1.5, DragonWorld , Gato 1.3, Hacker , Luscher Profile , Mac+// 3.0, MacAttack 1.0, MacCommand , MacJack II/Poker II , Math Blaster , MegaDesk , Mind Prober 1.5, MindShadow , Mouse Stampede , Negotiation Edge , Pensate , Racter , Shanghai , Sherlock Holmes , Skyfox , Song Painter , Star League Baseball 1.0, Strategic Conquest+ , Temple of Aphasi , The Quest , Trivia Fever , Ultima ][ , Winter Games , Wishbringer , Xyphus
Additional Hard Disk/RAMDisk/floppy compatible programs:
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Am. Hist. Adv , Baron , All OLD Human Edge Circa 1984, All Old InfoComs , Klondike , MacPhone , Millionaire , Mighty Mac , Personal Accountant , ProPrint , Reading Adv 1 , SoftMaker II , Softech Fortran , TeleChess , ThinkFast , TK! Solver ,Tycoon , UCSD Pascal
(Use the Transfer Files option from the File menu in the Hard Disk Util program, after having made a backup copy with Copy a Disk, to upload these programs to a hard disk. Most of them simply contain invisible files duplicatable with our Transfer Files option.)
Opti-Mods (Optimization modifications.)
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Copy II Mac , Fedit Plus 1.0.7, MacDraw 1.9, MicroPhone 1.0
(These patches enhance the speed of the products by removing startup delays. These patches are also not encrypted and can be converted to TEXT files and viewed.)
Program patchable through Trojan Horse I: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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ABsCences , Balance of Power 1.03 (128K file size version), Crossword Magic , Deluxe Music Constr 2.0, First Shapes , Fontographer 2.1, KidTalk , MacPaint 2.0 Italian, MacWrite 5.01 Italian, Master Tracks Pro 1.02, MathTalk , Mean 18 , MiniCad 3.3/3.31/4.0X, Opcode Patch Lib/Edit 3.25 CZ101, Opcode Patch Lib/Edit 3.25 DX7, Opcode Patch Librarian 3.2-3.25, Professional Composer 2.2/2.3, ResumeWriter 1.0, Sequencer 2.5-2.54, SmoothTalker 2.1, SoftSynth 1.0, Sound Designer 1.12, Toy Shop 1.1, Truth and Betryal 1.05
Program patchable through Trojan Horse II: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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Alchemy 1.1/1.2/1.2a, Beaverton D-50 Ed/Lib 1.0/2.0, Beaverton ESQ-1 Editor , Beaverton FB-01 Editor , Beaverton M1 Ed/Lib 3.5, CAD Mover 2.1/2.2, Design Dimension Smoothy, Design Dimensions 2.05, Design Dimensions Presenter .9, DrumFile 1.0a/1.1/1.2, Evelyn Wood Reader V5-1.0, EZ-Draft 1.0, Illustrator 1.0/1.1, LetraStudio , MacCad PCB Design 3.1-9/2dp & 3.1-9/2dpp, MacCad Schematic 2.0c/2.3-2.4D-3.0/3.01/3.1c, MacCad SMT/PCB 2.0/2.0a, MacPatch 1.0, McCAD PCB ST Pro 1.07/1.09, MeasureUp 1.1b, MGM Generic , MGM Mill 1.5/1.81, MGM Station 2.07-2.09II, Mindsight 1.1, Movie Magic 1.10d/1.1d/1.20, Movie Magic Bugeter 1.2.1/1.3.1, Movie Magic Schedueler 1.0/1.0.9, Navigate 1.2/2.0c, Nexpert Object , Pirates! 674,067K, PowerDraw 1.0/2.0/DXF, Production Scheduleler 2.2/2.5/4.0, Rendezvous 1.5/1.6, Scriptor 1.4, Scriptwriter 1.27/1.30/1.31, Stella 1.2/2.0, Xpress 1.0-1.04/2.0/2.11
Program patchable through Stealth: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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4th and Inches , Alchemy 2.0a-2.0c, Calculus , Defender of the Crown , Deja Vu II , Geometry , Jam Session , MacCad Schematic DS 3.2, Master Tracks Pro 3.01/3.32/3.4, Opcode D-50 Ed/Lib 5.3, Opcode DxTx Ed/Lib 5.32, Opcode M1 Ed/Lib 5.3, Opcode M6 Ed/Lib 4.03, Opcode M6 Ed/Lib 4.03, P-51 Mustang 2.04, Performer 2.3/2.31/3.0/3.1, Physics , Q-Sheet A/V 1.01, Shufflepuck Cafe 1.0, Sim City 1.0, SoftSynth 2.1, Sound Designer 1.12, Sound Designer 1.12Emu, Sound Designer 1.12 Prophet 2000, Sound Designer 1.5, Sound Designer II 1.0/1.1, Turbosynth 1.0/2.0, UpBeat 1.2, Vision 1.02/1.02A, Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego , Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Changes with version 3.0b
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Stealth:
Classic Spice 1.1, MacCad PCB ST 1.1b, MacCad Schematic 3.2, Sound Designer 1.12Emax, Sound Designer 1.12 Universal, Sound Designer II 1.1, Star Wars 1.0, Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego 1.0
Changes with version 3.0c
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· We now will try to include the size of the original program on more difficult programs.
Normal patching procedure:
Kings Quest II Color 1.50 5/23/88, MicroStation Mac 3.5, Pipe Dream 1.0, Pool of Radiance 1.0, Sculpt 3D 1.0
Trojan Horse II:
Pirates! 674,041K, PowerDraw 2.0 5/30 661,916K
Stealth:
Fokker Triplane 2.05, Grand Prix Circuit , MacCad PCB ST 1.1c, MacCad Schematic DS 3.2a, MacCad Schematic 3.2a, MasterTracks Pro 4.05
2/1/90 Maintenance release:
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More universal patches for Opcode DX7II Ed/Lib 5.32, ShadowGate , Sound Designer 1.12 (2000). Sim City 1.1, Playmaker Football
Changes with version 3.0d 3/1/90
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Patches:
Titan B&W and Color
Trojan Horse II:
Movie Magic Schedueling 1.25
Stealth:
Crossword Magic 4.0, MacPaint 2.0T (Italian), Opcode Korg M1 Ed/Lib 5.41, Opcode Multi-D Ed/Lib 5.34, Opcode Proteus Ed/Lib 5.41, Reader Rabbit 2.0
Changes with version 3.0e 3/28/90
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More universal patch for The Uninvited .
Trojan Horse II:
ResumeWriter Pro 1.0
Custom Patching
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If you have a program that FWB does not currently support, you should call FWB before sending it. FWB performs custom patching on specialized applications with costs depending on program complexity. Consult FWB on these special applications.
BBS
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Only registered owners of Hard Disk Util v3.0 or higher can purchase memberships on our BBS to receive on-line updates to patches. Be sure to register your copy to obtain this unique service. Consult the manual for the BBS phone number.
This is a commercial FWB floppy disk. I assumed it had the FWB Hard Disk Toolkit for SCSI drives. Nope. It was an earlier product (?) offered by FWB to crack (?) software so that it could be moved to and used on a hard disk?


Hard Disk Util v3.0e Notes 3/28/90
© 1985-1990 FWB Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Duplication Illegal.
Program patchable through normal patching procedure: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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4th Dimension 1.0.4 Intl, 4th Dimension 3.0/3.2.4/4.0 (French), 4th Dimension Intl Runtime, Airborne , Alkaatib 1.1, Animal Kingdom , ArchiCAD 3.1.eng.full.ii/3.3, Art of War at Sea , Atlas 1.2/1.4, Balance of Power 1.03, Balance of Power 1990 , Bibliolink 1.0, Brattacus , Breach , Brock Keystroke 1/8 3/22, Bulk Mailer 1.15-2.14, Business Filevision , Calculator Construction Set , Cause 1.0, Chequebook , Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer , Colony , Compugraphic DMS , Crystal Quest , Cutthroats , Deja Vu (Mindscape), Deja Vu (Rubicon), DeskToppers , DietMac 1.0, Dollars and $ense 1.3, Electric Checkbook 1.1, Enchanted Scepters , Ensemble 1.0, Experlisp 1.04, Ferrari Grand Prix 1.27-1.37, Filevision 1.0, Fokker Triplane , Forecast 1.0-1.2, Front Desk 3.0, Futuria , Geometry old, Grid Wars , Griffin Terminal , HabaCheckminder , HabaComm , Habadex 1.0/2.0, Hayden Speller 1.0-1.2c, Hex , Hippo Almanac , Hippo Jokes , Hippo Lock , HitchHiker's Guide , Home Accountant 1.01-2, I Know its Here Somewhere , ][ in the Mac 1.0/2.0, KidTalk 1.0, King's Quest 1 & 2 v1.1, King's Quest 3 & Color, Leisure Suit Larry , Lode Runner 1.0/1.2, Lunar Rescue , Mac-a-Mug 1.0, MacBackup 3.0-3.5, MacDrums , MacFATS 1.0, MacFortran 2.0, MacGolf 1.0/2.0/3.0 Classic, MacIndexer 1.0, MacInfoSystem 1.1B, MacOneWrite A/R 1.2, MacOneWrite Cash 2.2, MacOneWrite G/L, MacPlot 1.6/2.0/2.2, MacPlots// 1.01/2.0-2.5, MacPlots// Draft 2.51, MacPublisher II 2.0-2.69, MacRacquetball 1.0, MacRobots, MacSafe 1.03, MacSpin 1.0/1.1/1.11, Mavis Beacon Typing , MegaFiler 2.0, MegaForm 2.1, Megamerge 3.0, MGM Plot Install , MGM Station 1.0/1.01, MicroPlanner 4.4, MicroPlanner+ 5.2-5.7, Might and Magic , Moebius , MouseWrite 1.0-2.17, MS-Chart 1.0, MS-Excel 1.51 Italian, MS-File 1.0-1.04, MS-Flight Sim 1.0/1.02, MS-Multiplan 1.02-1.1, MS-Word 1.0-1.15, MS-Word 3.01 (French), MS-Word 3.01 Italian, MS-Word 3.01 Spanish, My Office , myDiskLabeller 1.1, Ogre , Omnis 3+ 3.21/3.22, OverVue 1.0/2.0a, PageMaker 1.1/1.2, Penguin's Revenge , Performer 1.21/1.22, Personal Accountant , PFS File/Report A.03, PrintShop 1.0-1.2, Professional Bibliographer 2.5-2.6, Professional Composer 1.0/2.0, Psion Chess 1.0/1.5/1.6, Puppy Love , Quartet 1.0, Quik Circuit 2.0, Ragtime 1.0, Ragtime 2.01 Dutch, Rambo , Ready Set Go 3.0 Hebrew, Road Racer , Rogue , Salary Magic , Sargon /// , Scriptwriter 1.01-1.22, ShadowGate , Sierra Boxing , Smart Eyes , Space Quest , Space Quest II 2.0D, SpaceEdit 1.5/2.0, Speller Bee 1.0-1.21, Studio Session 1.1/1.2, The Mist , The Uninvited 4/24 7/8, ThinkTank 128 , ThinkTank 512 1.1/1.2, Triple Play 1 , Typing Intrigue , Typing Made Easy 1.4, Turbo Turtle , Ultima /// , Universe II , Utopia , Verificateur 1.8, VideoWorks , View to a Kill , Wizardry 1.10, Word Attack 1.0, Word Challenge II
Program patchable through normal patching procedure: (Floppy compatible only)
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AlterEgo Male, Borrowed Time , Certificate Maker 1.0-1.5, DragonWorld , Gato 1.3, Hacker , Luscher Profile , Mac+// 3.0, MacAttack 1.0, MacCommand , MacJack II/Poker II , Math Blaster , MegaDesk , Mind Prober 1.5, MindShadow , Mouse Stampede , Negotiation Edge , Pensate , Racter , Shanghai , Sherlock Holmes , Skyfox , Song Painter , Star League Baseball 1.0, Strategic Conquest+ , Temple of Aphasi , The Quest , Trivia Fever , Ultima ][ , Winter Games , Wishbringer , Xyphus
Additional Hard Disk/RAMDisk/floppy compatible programs:
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Am. Hist. Adv , Baron , All OLD Human Edge Circa 1984, All Old InfoComs , Klondike , MacPhone , Millionaire , Mighty Mac , Personal Accountant , ProPrint , Reading Adv 1 , SoftMaker II , Softech Fortran , TeleChess , ThinkFast , TK! Solver ,Tycoon , UCSD Pascal
(Use the Transfer Files option from the File menu in the Hard Disk Util program, after having made a backup copy with Copy a Disk, to upload these programs to a hard disk. Most of them simply contain invisible files duplicatable with our Transfer Files option.)
Opti-Mods (Optimization modifications.)
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Copy II Mac , Fedit Plus 1.0.7, MacDraw 1.9, MicroPhone 1.0
(These patches enhance the speed of the products by removing startup delays. These patches are also not encrypted and can be converted to TEXT files and viewed.)
Program patchable through Trojan Horse I: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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ABsCences , Balance of Power 1.03 (128K file size version), Crossword Magic , Deluxe Music Constr 2.0, First Shapes , Fontographer 2.1, KidTalk , MacPaint 2.0 Italian, MacWrite 5.01 Italian, Master Tracks Pro 1.02, MathTalk , Mean 18 , MiniCad 3.3/3.31/4.0X, Opcode Patch Lib/Edit 3.25 CZ101, Opcode Patch Lib/Edit 3.25 DX7, Opcode Patch Librarian 3.2-3.25, Professional Composer 2.2/2.3, ResumeWriter 1.0, Sequencer 2.5-2.54, SmoothTalker 2.1, SoftSynth 1.0, Sound Designer 1.12, Toy Shop 1.1, Truth and Betryal 1.05
Program patchable through Trojan Horse II: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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Alchemy 1.1/1.2/1.2a, Beaverton D-50 Ed/Lib 1.0/2.0, Beaverton ESQ-1 Editor , Beaverton FB-01 Editor , Beaverton M1 Ed/Lib 3.5, CAD Mover 2.1/2.2, Design Dimension Smoothy, Design Dimensions 2.05, Design Dimensions Presenter .9, DrumFile 1.0a/1.1/1.2, Evelyn Wood Reader V5-1.0, EZ-Draft 1.0, Illustrator 1.0/1.1, LetraStudio , MacCad PCB Design 3.1-9/2dp & 3.1-9/2dpp, MacCad Schematic 2.0c/2.3-2.4D-3.0/3.01/3.1c, MacCad SMT/PCB 2.0/2.0a, MacPatch 1.0, McCAD PCB ST Pro 1.07/1.09, MeasureUp 1.1b, MGM Generic , MGM Mill 1.5/1.81, MGM Station 2.07-2.09II, Mindsight 1.1, Movie Magic 1.10d/1.1d/1.20, Movie Magic Bugeter 1.2.1/1.3.1, Movie Magic Schedueler 1.0/1.0.9, Navigate 1.2/2.0c, Nexpert Object , Pirates! 674,067K, PowerDraw 1.0/2.0/DXF, Production Scheduleler 2.2/2.5/4.0, Rendezvous 1.5/1.6, Scriptor 1.4, Scriptwriter 1.27/1.30/1.31, Stella 1.2/2.0, Xpress 1.0-1.04/2.0/2.11
Program patchable through Stealth: (Fully hard disk compatible)
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4th and Inches , Alchemy 2.0a-2.0c, Calculus , Defender of the Crown , Deja Vu II , Geometry , Jam Session , MacCad Schematic DS 3.2, Master Tracks Pro 3.01/3.32/3.4, Opcode D-50 Ed/Lib 5.3, Opcode DxTx Ed/Lib 5.32, Opcode M1 Ed/Lib 5.3, Opcode M6 Ed/Lib 4.03, Opcode M6 Ed/Lib 4.03, P-51 Mustang 2.04, Performer 2.3/2.31/3.0/3.1, Physics , Q-Sheet A/V 1.01, Shufflepuck Cafe 1.0, Sim City 1.0, SoftSynth 2.1, Sound Designer 1.12, Sound Designer 1.12Emu, Sound Designer 1.12 Prophet 2000, Sound Designer 1.5, Sound Designer II 1.0/1.1, Turbosynth 1.0/2.0, UpBeat 1.2, Vision 1.02/1.02A, Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego , Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Changes with version 3.0b
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Stealth:
Classic Spice 1.1, MacCad PCB ST 1.1b, MacCad Schematic 3.2, Sound Designer 1.12Emax, Sound Designer 1.12 Universal, Sound Designer II 1.1, Star Wars 1.0, Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego 1.0
Changes with version 3.0c
-----------------------
· We now will try to include the size of the original program on more difficult programs.
Normal patching procedure:
Kings Quest II Color 1.50 5/23/88, MicroStation Mac 3.5, Pipe Dream 1.0, Pool of Radiance 1.0, Sculpt 3D 1.0
Trojan Horse II:
Pirates! 674,041K, PowerDraw 2.0 5/30 661,916K
Stealth:
Fokker Triplane 2.05, Grand Prix Circuit , MacCad PCB ST 1.1c, MacCad Schematic DS 3.2a, MacCad Schematic 3.2a, MasterTracks Pro 4.05
2/1/90 Maintenance release:
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More universal patches for Opcode DX7II Ed/Lib 5.32, ShadowGate , Sound Designer 1.12 (2000). Sim City 1.1, Playmaker Football
Changes with version 3.0d 3/1/90
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Patches:
Titan B&W and Color
Trojan Horse II:
Movie Magic Schedueling 1.25
Stealth:
Crossword Magic 4.0, MacPaint 2.0T (Italian), Opcode Korg M1 Ed/Lib 5.41, Opcode Multi-D Ed/Lib 5.34, Opcode Proteus Ed/Lib 5.41, Reader Rabbit 2.0
Changes with version 3.0e 3/28/90
--------------------------------
More universal patch for The Uninvited .
Trojan Horse II:
ResumeWriter Pro 1.0
Custom Patching
---------------
If you have a program that FWB does not currently support, you should call FWB before sending it. FWB performs custom patching on specialized applications with costs depending on program complexity. Consult FWB on these special applications.
BBS
---
Only registered owners of Hard Disk Util v3.0 or higher can purchase memberships on our BBS to receive on-line updates to patches. Be sure to register your copy to obtain this unique service. Consult the manual for the BBS phone number.