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Frontier2AGA
What you've been waiting for a long time...
What is it?
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When I got my new 17" monitor I found out that literally _any_ game I
own fails to run without having the old 15kHz-display available.
Being bored by always having to hook up my old 1081 for playing
Frontier, I wrote Frontier2AGA.
This program patches your Frontier-executable to use one of the
VGA-friendly modes. Don't be surprised by the clumsy display, it's
still 320x200 :) (except for the mouse pointer).
How do I use it?
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Frontier2AGA simply takes one argument: the name of (a copy of) your
Frontier executable, which will be modified:
> Frontier2AGA dh2:games/Frontier
The displaymode which the patched program uses somehow depends upon
the setting of the current foremost screen (in most cases the
Workbench screen). If your Workbench runs using DblPAL, Frontier will
do so either. If you are using DblNTSC, Frontier will use DblNTSC.
However, the upper left corner of the display Frontier uses is
hardcoded, and will _only_ be in the right place if you placed
'VGAonly' in your sys:devs/monitors drawer. Otherwise some part of the
display may remain invisible. I recommend using DblNTSC and VGAonly.
You can even play Frontier in 70Hz using e.g. the Euro72-productivity
mode, however, I did not yet bother to adapt the copperlist for that
case. Besides, the music plays quite fast in 70Hz...
Compatibilty
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Frontier2AGA doesn't rely on a certain version of Frontier, it tries
to find the correct positions to be patched dynamically.
Frontier2AGA also harmonizes with Teemu Suikki's FrontierPatch (which
adds an exit-function to versions not having one, and without which I
certainly wouldn't have finished Frontier2AGA :)
Future
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If there's enough response (and motivation), you may convince me to
add some options for varying the display's position, or for
compatibility with Euro72-mode etc.
Distribution:
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The whole archive Frontier2AGA.lha may be copied and given away freely
as long as no change is made to it and no money is taken for it.
Suggestions & Comments
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If you like and use this - just drop me a message. I *love* getting
mail, and getting the impression having done something useful for
mankind also isn't too bad :)
email to: arost@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Of course, if you don't have email access, you can also drop me an
A4000, chocolates, ca$h,... (see above, "motivation" :-)
mail to: A. Ost / Bayreutherstr. 35b-6 / D-91054 Erlangen
Have fun,
alex