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                           Martin Kiewitz's HOLMESFiX
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                             Released on 28.10.2001

                        Written and (c) by Martin Kiewitz
                         Special Thanx to Daniel Caetano
                      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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        Well.
        This is a patcher for 'The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes'.
        A really nice adventure game from Electronic Arts.

        We got 2 bugs in here.
        The 1st one is our beloved Soundblaster-delay bug.
        The 2nd is something really special.
         The coders didnt know ANYTHING about doing an IRQ-routine, so they
         guessed how everything works. Well. THEY GUESSED WRONG.

        Under WinDos it works. Why ?
         Because the WinDos Dos-Box is inaccurate.
         Normally you have to ack an IRQ *one* time. And this means *JUST ONCE*.
         The WinDos Dos-Box ignores this...not so the OS/2 VDM."
         The coder's guessed routine just acks *any* IRQ, even if it does not
         process it.

        I just fixed those bugs, now it works perfectly using OS/2 Warp / eCS.

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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 dedicated HOLMESFiX to 2 different people.
        Maryse is a really great (half-french) girl and I like her a lot.
        Gerd Kiewitz is my father, he died some time ago :(
         I will never stop loving him.

        - No Greetz this time, sorry -

 - Martin Kiewitz
