ExtendeD and myself are proud to present the first prerelease of GhostBuster, an automated patcher in the spirit of the now famous Voyage 200 Executables Patcher (also by ExtendeD), which patches programs written and/or compiled before the introduction of the new HW3 to work with the new hardware changes. The fixes done are:
* ROM_base computation (incorrect 0x600000 mask, should be 0xE00000) and assumptions that ROM_base is 0x200000 on all TI-89 variants (whereas it is actually 0x800000 on the Titanium)
* elimination of all types of 0x40000 ghost space use

I decided to call this an alpha rather than a beta because it got almost no testing at all and because the documentation could still use much improvement (but the basic usage description is there, see the readme.txt I just added).

Please report any programs that still don't work after patching them with GhostBuster unless:
* the crash is a black bar crash with no text in it and you didn't install HW3Patch. Try again with HW3Patch.
* the program is a kernel-based program and you tried it with TitaniK. Try again with HW3Patch and Iceberg.

The possible reasons for programs still not working are:
* programs using hacks incompatible with AMS 3. Those should hopefully not be too frequent. These are beyond the scope of GhostBuster (for now at least).
* GhostBuster missing a HW3-incompatible hack. In that case, we can add a detection for that specific hack, or if it is really rare, just release a patched version of the individual program.
* GhostBuster mistaking some piece of code or a data for the code to be patched, and corrupting it. In that case, we can try to make the tests more specific or to specifically detect the individual program to avoid breakage.

So, enough talking, here's the download: members.chello.at/gerhard.kofler/kevin/ti89prog/ghostb.zip.