For the tc i'm working on i need the player to do some missions which make him board shďps which aren't ships. Now when our dear player doesn't fly as well as he should, he'd get a message saying "You're moving too fast to board this ship", which I of course do not want cause it ain't no ship he's boarding. I wanted to replace this standard sentence by "You're moving too fast for stable contact".

I found the sentence in the DATA resource in the EVO app, so i tried copying that DATA resource to a plug file and changing the text. No effect. Then i tried replacing it directly in the EVO app itself. Once again, no effect. I don't understand. If changing that DATA resource doesn't make a difference, EVO must not be getting the sentence from that resource. But if it doesn't get it there, what's that thing doing there?

your servant,
continuing to explore that DATA resource to see if there's more then one copy of that sentence,
-s

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Try the data fork. If you're executing on a PPC system the code is stored in the data fork (use BBedit or something). DATA resources are used for 68k computers. Unfortunately I dont know any copyright/IP laws, but I have a feeling that what you're doing is illegal.

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Oh i'm pretty sure it isn't.
In the EV Bible, Matt says something along the lines of: you can override every single resource in the data/graphics files (the same goes for the resources of the EV application itself). I was just trying to override a resource. Ain't nothing illegal about that. Thank you for your 68K/PPC explanation, now at least i understand what's going on. I won't try to alter the data fork itself, i'll just give up here.
your servant,
-s

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I tried something of the sort a while back. I beleive it becomes illegal if & only if you distribute the modified file. If you have some way of making a patch, then you could distribute the patch. The other problem to look out for is that you cannot change the length of the text. Well, you can, but then EV/O won't run. EV3 should fix much of this, by moving most such text into strings that can be more easily edited. We hope.

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