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Short: HD Installer for Speedball 2 & fix V1.3
Author: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre)
Uploader: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre)
Type: game/patch
Install-Script & HD-loader & Fix © 1996/1997 Jean-François FABRE
Speedball 2 is ©1991/92/93 Renegade.
--- Speedball 2 Hard Disk Installer ---
This installer requires the Speedball 2 original disk, or Speedball 2 CD32 original CD.
Four versions are supported:
- 'IMAGEWORKS PRESENTS' (PAL)
- 'RENEGADE PRESENTS' (PAL) (the re-edition)
- 'IMAGEWORKS PRESENTS' US version (NTSC, edited by Konami)
- 'RENEGADE PRESENTS' CD32 version (beta) (separate installer)
FLOPPY VERSIONS:
Features:
- Loads fully from HD
- Convenient Installer script
- Possibility to quit the game during the intro or the game part (F10)
- MOVEP instructions converted (crashes for 68060 users).
- Copy-protection caused 68060 crashes. Removed.
- Load/Save goals,league,cup data from hard drive, with bank selection (not for US NTSC version)
To do:
- HD saves for Konami US version.
The HD-Patched game will need about 2Mb of memory.
It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs (up to '060).
US version users should select the NTSC tooltype at startup.
Renegade & Imageworks version users should select the PAL tooltype at startup
if they use the game on a NTSC amiga.
Report me any bugs you'll find.
F10 : Quit the game
0-9 : Choose save/load file (in the load/save menu)
IMPORTANT, READ THIS (PAL VERSIONS ONLY):
It is possible to save and load your games
from HD. There are 10 positions each for cup, league and goal saves.
Instead of printing 'INSERT GAME SAVE DISK', the game will ask 'SELECT SAVE THEN PUSH FIRE'.
Press key 0 to 9 (not on the numeric keypad) to select the position. Then press fire
with the joystick button. If you simply press fire without entering a number, the last
position entered will be selected (default 0).
The screen will go black and the hard drive will be accessed. I introduced a Delay
for saves, because the buffers are not flushed at once. So avoid copyback disk caches.
If the drive light stays lit and the screen remains black, just press F10 and the game
will exit without harm. DO NOT REBOOT in this case: this can corrupt your disk.
WARNING: Do not press keys during hard disk access: this can lock the machine, which means
a possible disk corruption if you're saving a game (not very serious, but annoying).
I took the maximum care I could to avoid those problems, and I tested those features
a lot because I know they are critical. Use it at your own risk. If you don't trust
the program, run the game from a test partition or a ramdisk. If you're not happy with
it, nevermind. I worked hard for this and it works for me :-)
Because of the Delay after a write to the disk (file open then close in read mode then
4 seconds waiting), I think disk crashes are very improbable. I did not test my program
with a very slow hard drive or a floppy, but I never crashed my disk with this system.
If you don't want to write/read the hard disk for game saves, you can disable
the HD accesses by activating the NOOSWAP tooltype.
The full HD version will not work with machines equipped with only 2 MB of
memory. Use the NOOSSWAP tooltype/argument to enable floppy saves.
To convert floppy saves to hard disk saves, use the makeHDsaves program provided.
CD32 VERSION:
I just adapted a patch to remove the check for the CD during the game.
This allows to play from hard drive without having to insert the disk.
This patch is still beta. The installer is separate from the 3 other versions.
-----
Note: I created and tested this package with a A1200/060/50 16Mb, so there should
be no problems for all 680x0 CPUs (caches,chipset...). It degrades display properly
so Multiscan users won't have any sprite or screen problem.
You can modify the installer script to install disks from DF1:, DF2: or DF3: instead
of DF0: by changing the unit in the disk2file arguments.
If you find some bugs, or the game crashes, please e-mail me (specify your
configuration).
I'm also looking for people who could send me original disks for me to patch them
for 680x0 or write HD-Installers (please, not for cracked versions).
E-mail me if you're interested, or if you simply like this installer.
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DISCLAIMER:
I'm not responsible for any damage caused directly or indirectly by this piece
of software.
DISTRIBUTION:
This patch can be distributed freely, but I'd appreciate that you drop me a line
if you include it in a coverdisk or PD collection.
However, FFD (France Festival Distribution) is not allowed to include it in any
of its PD disks (if you read usenet in fr.comp.sys.amiga, you'll know why).
It's the only exception for the distribution.
ME:
Visit my patch page, where all my HD work is gathered, along with some other
quality installers (all for original software), and some other interesting
freeware stuff:
http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/patches.html
And my home page (totally stupid stuff):
http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/ (english)
http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/index_fr.html (french)
E-mail: jffabre@ensica.fr
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Enjoy this GREAT game from The Bitmap Bros. on your HD
(now I think I covered all legal versions :-) )
Jeff
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
7052 6730 4.5% 07-Feb-97 18:32:20 +disk2file
1428 552 61.3% 13-Feb-97 23:07:08 +Install-SpeedBall2
1890 1030 45.5% 27-Jan-97 23:57:56 +Install-SpeedBall2.info
1727 674 60.9% 13-Feb-97 23:06:04 +Install_SpeedBall2CD32
1911 1041 45.5% 27-Jan-97 23:57:56 +Install_SpeedBall2CD32.info
8232 7894 4.1% 08-Dec-96 12:40:10 +makeHDsaves
2339 919 60.7% 27-Jan-97 23:57:56 +makeHDsaves.info
1676 1192 28.8% 27-Jan-97 19:21:02 +patchsb2
3485 1569 54.9% 28-Jan-97 00:03:02 +sb2.hints
5169 1647 68.1% 28-Jan-97 00:00:04 +sb2.hints.info
5238 2574 50.8% 27-Jan-97 23:58:42 +sb2hd.readme
5146 1623 68.4% 27-Jan-97 23:57:56 +sb2hd.readme.info
47 45 4.2% 13-Feb-97 23:05:24 +SpeedBall2CD32
3022 1039 65.6% 27-Jan-97 18:55:06 +SpeedBall2CD32.icon
352 251 28.6% 13-Feb-97 23:05:24 +SpeedBall2CD32.info
32680 31786 2.7% 27-Jan-97 23:47:34 +SpeedBall2HD
3049 1054 65.4% 27-Jan-97 23:57:56 +SpeedBall2HD.info
2273 563 75.2% 12-Feb-97 01:12:58 SpeedBall2.info
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86716 62183 28.2% 13-Mar-97 16:15:42 18 files