-=> Quoting Dave Hatch to Mark Griffiths <=-

 PL>> Roger, at 14:17 on Wed, Dec 18 1996, you wrote to All ...
 
 RD>>> Just wondering what the latest SDL for the Australian USR
Couriers is?
 
 PL>> SDL_7666
 PL>> SDLPALLB
 
 DH>> ding... ding... unauthorized modem alert... ding...  :-)
 
 DH>> PALLB is the "international" version.  It won't load
into a genuine 61
 DH>> series. (IMNSHO, it's probably better than the legit one...:-)
 
 MG> The code is identical to that found in SDL_61.EXE - If you have a look at 
 MG> the ROM CRC you will see that they are the same - 7666.  I think I have 
 MG> actually loaded that code to see which version it was, 
 MG> but was disappointed
 MG> at the results...

 DH> Curiouser and curiouser.  I FTPed PALLB about a week after 
 DH> it first appeared.  It screamed bloody murder about wrong 
 DH> versions, and wouldn't load on my genuine Austel sabotaged 
 DH> version Courier.

I think that this is a new version of SDL_PALLB.EXE, although it has been 
like that for a while...

 DH> If the ROM code is in fact identical, I'm not all that much 
 DH> suprised - just disgusted.
 
If you compare the previous Austel SDL with the matching US/Domestic SDL
you will find that only a single byte is changed.  Despite this, that Austel
version was released months after the US version.  Changing this byte is 
how the following US code was "adapted" for the Austel Couriers for which 
no official Austel SDL has yet been released.  Since the 23/1/96 SDL tho, 
they have wised up and put some code in the modem ROM so that this type of 
hack no longer works...

Regards,
Mark Griffiths.
 

... Friends don't let friends buy RPI or WinModems! (or Austel Couriers :-)  
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