Patching extra functionality into <gamemd.exe>

[jonwil]

I was playing YR with the latest (1.04b) patch installed and got the attached except.txt crash early in the loading of the Massivesoft mission.

In addition to your patch, I also have the latest version of the Terrain Expansion addon installed.
No other mods or patches are installed as far as I know.

BTW, great patch (I found out about it because I saw the Terrain Expansion news on planetcnc and installed RA2 and YR again to play with it. Then I saw about the game expansion packs because I was reading the Terrain Expansion and DeeZire message boards which lead me here). And I know all about except.txt files (they are great debugging tools , I deal with them all the time for another westwood game, Command & Conquer Renegade (I am the primary coder of a similar project to yours that ads extra functionality and unlocks stuff that didnt work right in the renegade engine). In fact, it appears to be identical code between RA2 and Renegade for spitting out except.txt files

Also, I was very active back in the day in the TS/RA2 modding sceneand was (and still am in fact) friends with Olaf Van Der Spek of XCC mixer and Matze of FinalAlert. In fact, it was me that did a large part of work to figure out the TS/RA2 .SHP format way back when (and other stuff like the filenames of files in the various mix files)

I do things differently to you though, what happens is that I load an extra dll into the renegade memory space which then patches the dezired offsets. This lets me work in a mixture of inline assembler and C (and the odd bit of machine code here and there where I need to write actual machine instructions directly to renegade memory space)

Hopefully you can tell me if this crash is caused by your patch or something else.