How to patch NULU 1.5 to make it start up more quickly by Jon Saxton, 30th April 1987. When NULU loads the first thing it does is an internal CRC calculation to check its own integrity. The idea is to make sure the program was loaded correctly and/or that it had not been corrupted on the disk. This is a most admirable idea and it protects you against the unforseen and unpredictable consequences of executing a bad copy of the program. Unfortunately, the checking takes time (about 2 seconds) and that can become annoying after a while. If your impatience exceeds your concern for safety then you can risk changing the jump instruction at the start of the program from JP 0146h to JP 01A2h to bypass the checking. Of course if you do that you will be completely at variance with the intentions of the author but then none of your other programs does an internal check and you're not paranoid about those, are you?