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Architecture: 68k PPC
XPress Repersonalize
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Download xpressrepersonalise.sit_.bin
(18.50 KB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
Just a little helper - would assume this works with Quark 3.x and maybe 4.x - Might also help MikeTomTom 
Architecture: 68k PPC
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I used Quark XPress solely from approx. 1989 Quark 1.0, to QXP 5.0 before switching to indesign 1.5 -- that was a very long time using only Quark for 95% of everything, and Pagemaker 4.0 - 6.5a for everything else. Having used QXP for 10 years or more, I have every tool, extension, and hack you could ever hope for... ask me for anything - InPosition (yup), Trapwise (yup), Presswise (yup, already posted), Platemaker/Platecheck (yup), etc etc.
After you see my custom 3.32r5 upload, you may wish to expand your Quark XPress horizons somewhat
Many thanks indeed. See comments and thanks.
Dang! just after I posted off my last epistal, too
Many thanks. Will DL now and look into it very soon, probably later this evening. Cheers.
@themacmeister: Hi, that's correct, the reg details are saved to floppy. However it is not an easy fix. Quark was more paranoid than Microsoft when it came to software piracy (unbelievable but true), so they went to extraordinary lengths not to let that happen
(small trivia digression here, the term "I-Patch" must predate any other "I" Apple anything by about 8 years - albeit using a capital "I".)
Anyway, out of this little excercise and because you posted up the Xpress Repersonalize "I-Patch" I was able to determine that the code for the registration is in the resource "XNST" and these XNSTs are ID 500, 501 and 502. As those are the resourses the "I-Patch" replaces.
If I had a full installer floppy that hadn't been written to I could easily make a patch for it using ResCompare... but that's putting the chicken before the egg, eh?
I don't want to upgrade to 4.0 either, thanks
I have the full install floppy, CD, serial # and manuals for 3.31, I was hoping to "virginize" the previously written to installer floppy to make it "my own", but its no big deal tho', I can still install and use it as is, in the meantime.
MikeTomTom -> just uploaded tools that will get the job done for you!
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/xpress-re-serialize-v3-4
Enjoy!
The registration details are saved to the floppy - would removing reg.dat (or whatever the file is called) reset the install, and allow you to re-install with the correct 3.31 serial number?
Just a thought.
I actually do have a floppy image somewhere... I also believe there is a simple checksum (amount of characters?) and you can change the name yourself with ResEdit, as long as there is the exact number of characters present. (DO NOT try this on the original copy!)
Back Shortly.
EDIT: hmm, don't want to upgrade to 4.0 do you?
This will need a closer look than previously thought. I know I have had to go through that nuisance entry field dialogs before, but that was probably the PC version of 3.32r5.
@xy: Yes the versions are identical, but there are a couple of other utilities there that look like a possibility. So thanks for the link too. Will look at those other apps shortly.
Here:
http://www.hackcanada.com/whacked/filelists/hacks.html
is also a download link for xpress repersonalize. I have not tested whether this version is identical to macameister's. But maybe you are lucky.
@themacmeister: I really appreciate that you had something to put up and tried to help, even if it wasn't quite right for me - it still might of use to somebody else.
I've since looked more closely at what you have posted (with ResEdit) and it really does appear to be a patch tool to repersonalize an updater floppy for QXP 3.x - I think that if there was one similar to this made for the direct full install floppy it would work on that too - even with my 3.31 version.
My apologies MikeTomTom, I am almost certain I have many other floppy images, and repersonalize tools that will do the job for you. Please wait, and I will upload these as soon as possible!
It may be optimistic to hope this will work on 4.x
Its possible that it will work on 3.0 and 3.1 successfully.
It at least did patch my 3.31 disk, but the result was it converted that installer floppy from a personalized full installer disk to an updater install disk...
This is possibly due to resource item numbers in the installer changing since 3.0 and 3.1 - Only guessing here of course.
An interesting excercise for me and others may fair better.