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Short: R-Type Hard Drive Installer
Author: girv@girvnet.demon.co.uk (John Girvin)
Uploader: girv@girvnet.demon.co.uk (John Girvin)
Type: game/patch
Replaces: game/patch/RTInstall.lha
Requires: 1.5Mb RAM, 900K hard drive space, Installer, R-Type ;)
TITLE
RTInstall
VERSION
1.00
Latest version always available from my homepage:
http://www.girvnet.demon.co.uk/
AUTHOR
John Girvin
E-Mail: girv@girvnet.demon.co.uk
WWW: http://www.girvnet.demon.co.uk/
SnailMail:
John Girvin,
25 Moorgate Street,
Belfast BT5 5BZ,
Northern Ireland,
United Kingdom.
DESCRIPTION
This is a hard drive installer for the classic Factor 5 blaster
"R-Type".
Please read this document *thoroughly* before attempting to use
the installer! There are some important points you may miss if
you just dive right in, so much as it may be against your nature,
I REALLY DO THINK YOU SHOULD READ THIS FILE. You have been warned!
ARCHIVE CONTENTS
RTInstall.info
RTInstall/.info
RTInstall/Install_R-Type
RTInstall/Install_R-Type.info
RTInstall/RTBoot
RTInstall/RTInstall.doc
RTInstall/RTInstall.doc.info
RTInstall/RTMakeDat
RTInstall/R-Type_HD
RTInstall/R-Type_HD_icon
RTInstall/R-Type_icon
INSTALLING THE GAME
Read the "SPACE REQUIREMENTS" and "BUGS/CAVEATS" sections of
this document NOW! They are important. Really.
Workbench or CLI use.
Installation is best handled by using the "Installer" program
from Commodore, which should have been provided with your
original system disks. It is also available from Aminet as:
util/misc/Installer-43_3.lha
(NB: the version number might have changed!)
After installation is complete, you may delete the directory
produced by extracting this archive ("RTInstall"). All files
required for running the game will be found in the "R-Type"
directory created during installation.
FROM WORKBENCH:
---------------
Extract all files in the archive to your system.
They will be extracted to a drawer called "RTInstall"
Open the newly created "RTInstall" drawer and double click on
the "Install_R-Type" icon found there.
Follow the instructions given to you by the Installer program:
- all trainer and trainer-GUI related choices are *default* values
only and may be changed after installation by editing the
icon tooltypes of the "R-Type_HD" program or using the
trainer GUI.
- when asked to insert your game disk, do so and wait for the
floppy activity light to go out before clicking the 'Proceed'
button.
The game will be installed to a directory you select on your
hard drive. You will be alerted if installation fails for any
reason.
FROM CLI/SHELL:
---------------
Extract all files in the archive to your system.
They will be extracted to a directory called "RTInstall"
CD to the "RTInstall" directory created when you extracted
the acrhive.
Type "Installer Install_R-Type" and press RETURN.
Follow the instructions given to you by the Installer program:
- when asked to select a "User Level" you *must* choose "Expert".
- all trainer and trainer-GUI related choices you make will only
apply if you start the Zeewolf_HD program from Workbench. If
you start the trainer program from CLI (or from a script) then
these options will be ignored.
- all trainer and trainer-GUI related choices are *default* values
only and may be changed after installation by editing the
icon tooltypes of the "R-Type_HD" program or using the
trainer GUI.
- when asked to insert your game disk, do so and wait for the
floppy activity light to go out before clicking the 'Proceed'
button.
The game will be installed to a directory you select on your
hard drive. You will be alerted if installation fails for any
reason.
CONFIGURING THE GAME
The R-Type_HD program icon has a number of tooltypes which may be
modified at any time to change the way in which it operates. Note that
if you start the program from CLI then options saved in the program's
tooltypes are ignored.
"NOGUI"
-------
Specify this tooltype to disable the trainer GUI. If the GUI is
disabled then the game will run with the default options specified
in the other tooltypes.
If the NOGUI tooltype is not present then the trainer GUI will appear.
"INF_LIVES"
"INVULNERABLE"
--------------
Specify any combination of these tooltypes to set the default state of
the corresponding trainer. For example, if you specify the "INF_LIVES"
tooltype then the infinite lives trainer will default to being active.
If either of the above tooltypes are not present, then the corresponding
trainer will default to being inactive.
PLAYING THE GAME
Read the "BUGS/CAVEATS" section of this document NOW!
FROM WORKBENCH
==============
From Workbench, open the "R-Type" drawer created during installation
and click on the "R-Type_HD" icon.
IF YOU OPTED TO USE THE TRAINER MENU
------------------------------------
Read this if you did not specify "NOGUI" in the icon tooltypes.
The trainer window will open allowing you to select the trainers you wish
to use while playing the game. Initially both trainers are set to the
default values specified in the program tooltypes.
To activate a trainer, e.g.: Infinite lives, you must click on the
appropriate gadget. A checkmark (tick) will appear in the box beside
any activated trainer; if the box is empty then the trainer is inactive.
When you have selected the trainers you want, click the "Play" gadget in
the lower left of the window. The game will now load and run if possible.
If you started R-Type by mistake, or have changed your mind and do
not want to play the game right now then click the "Cancel" gadget
in the lower right of the window..
IF YOU OPTED TO DISABLE THE TRAINER MENU
--------------------------------------
Read this if you did specify "NOGUI" in the icon tooltypes.
The game will load and run if possible. No trainer window will appear.
Active trainers are determined from the default values as specified by
the other tooltypes of the R-Type_HD program.
FROM CLI/SHELL
==============
Change Directory to the directory you have R-Type installed in.
To start the trainer, type "R-Type_HD" followed by the options you
wish to activate. Note that if you start the trainer from CLI then
options saved in the program's tooltypes are ignored.
"NOGUI"
"INF_LIVES"
"INVULNERABLE"
--------------
These command line options correspond to the tooltypes described in
the previous section.
For example:
R-Type_HD NOGUI INF_LIVES
would start R-Type and give the player infinite lives.
No trainer GUI would appear.
SPACE REQUIREMENTS
Requires approximately 900K of free space on your hard drive.
Please do not attempt installation if you have less than this
amount free on the partition you intend to install R-Type
on.
The "R-Type.dat" file (the big one, about 880K) may be crunched
using a packer/patch combination that modifies the dos.library
"Open" and "Read" functions eg: XData or PPData. This should save
you a few hundred Kb of hard disk space if you need it. You will
still require approximately 900K of hard drive space to do the
installation however.
The game disk is cached in memory during play, so you will
require approximately 1.5Mb of free RAM in order to play the
game. If this amount of memory is not available the loader
will report the error and quit.
Due to the stringent memory requirements, owners of 2Mb machines
may be unable to run the game while Workbench is loaded.
If, for whatever reason, the loader stops with a "could not
allocate xyz" error, then close down some applications or
commodities to free memory and try again. If this does not
work then reboot and try running the game again from a minimal
system (boot with no startup-sequence).
BUGS/CAVEATS
RTInstall is provided "as is" and is used at your own risk.
The author is not liable for any loss or damage caused by the
use or misuse of this program. It almost certainly *wont* destroy
your Amiga, but if it does (or does anything else untoward) then
I cannot be held responsible.
When running the installer it is advisable to disable any virus
checking software you may have running. The original game disk
uses a non-standard bootblock which will most likely cause your
virus checker to complain and this could interefere with the
installation process. It is not necessary to disable such programs
before playing the game once it is installed.
The installer is written in as system friendly a way as possible,
but the game is not. Owners of heavily expanded Amigas may have
problems running the game, but this is not the fault of RTInstall
and there is little I can do about it :( Try the usual system
degrading tricks if you run into difficulties, or get in touch
and Ill try to sort you out.
Multitasking is disabled while the game is running and it is not
possible to return to Workbench (or whatever) after you have
finished playing. A system reboot is necessary. Sorry, but theres
nothing I can do about it - its the way the game was written.
The original R-Type did not run on Amigas with any processor
other than a plain 68000. However, during installation the game
is automatically patched to be compatible with later CPUs.
TESTING INFORMATION
Created on A1200/68030+68882-40Mhz/8Mb/KS39.106, but should run on
any Amiga with enough RAM.
I have also tested the patched version on a vanilla 2Mb A1200.
If you have a problem running RTInstall then I WANT TO KNOW! Please,
feel free to get in touch. I *like* getting email :)
HISTORY
0.90 First version, still beta.
Released to Aminet in December 1996.
1.00 Rewrote GUI in SAS/C to make it font sensitive.
FUTURE
- I dunno! Email me if you have any inspriational thoughts!
HOST NAMES
Uploaded to wuarchive.wustl.edu (Aminet) probably in game/patch
Latest version always available from my homepage:
http://www.girvnet.demon.co.uk/
FILE NAMES
RTInstall.lha
RTInstall.readme
PRICE
One email message - RTInstall is emailware.
(if you use it then let me know :)
I'd also appreciate a postcard of your home town, especially if you
live outside of the UK! This isnt required, but it would be *nice* :)
My snail mail address is:
John Girvin,
25 Moorgate Street,
Belfast BT5 5BZ,
Northern Ireland,
United Kingdom.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
(c) 1996 John Girvin. No modifications may be made to either the
program or its accompanying documentation without my consent.
Freely Distributable, provided all files are included unchanged
in any distribution and no more than minimal handling/media
costs are charged.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
"R-Type" is (c) 1987 Irem, licensed to Electronic Arts and Factor 5.
GUI developed from code supplied by Hans Guijt
(h.guijt@inter.nl.net) as used in his fMSX-Amiga project
(Amiga MSX Emulator).
Thanks to Paul Copsey for supplying me with the 020-compatibility patch
for R-Type. Paul can be found on email or the Web as:
paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk
and
http://www.hectortd.demon.co.uk
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$VER: RTInstall documentation version 1.00 (c) 1996-1997 John Girvin