HFS+ (and iMac) Patch for D-Day: America Invades!

Recently a gamer who found my Monopoly patch asked if I could write a patch for Avalon Hill's "D-Day: America Invades!" game, which also stopped working when he bought his iMac.

I thought I'd post the patch for the general benefit. I don't own this game, so I haven't been able to test it, but the original requestor says it worked fine on his copy.

I make no warranty on this and it could do bad things to your D-Day: America Invades program, even though I think it fixes the problem and there have been no reported side effects.

1. Download the file (above). The file is encoded in BinHex format; if you're left with a file ending in ".hqx" or ".sit", and you don't have a file called "America Invades patch", you'll need to decode the file first. The easiest way is to open it with StuffIt Expander, which comes with most Macintosh systems. (Many web browsers will automatically decode it, so you don't need to worry about this step.)
2. Install the America Invades game on your hard drive. (If you're at this page, you probably already did.)
3. Double-click the file "America Invades patch". It's an application, so it should run and display a dialog telling you about the patch (actually I didn't bother to fill in the dialog, so you'll simply see "About this patch").
4. Click the "Patch" button. You'll be asked to locate the original America Invades program. This is the copy you installed on your hard drive, not the copy on the CD. Navigate to the folder where you installed the game, click on the file "America Invades!", and click on the "Patch" button.
5. Your copy of America Invades will be updated. (The original file will still be saved, and once you verify that the patched version works, you can delete the original. After all, it's still on the CD.)

D-Day: America Invades was developed by Atomic Games, and is published by Avalon Hill, which is now a division of Hasbro. This page is not endorsed by any of them.

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