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Short: HD Installer for Cannon Fodder 2 V1.0
Author: fabre@supaero.fr (Jean-François Fabre)
Uploader: fabre@supaero.fr
Type: game/patch
Install-Script & HD-loader © 1996 Jean-François FABRE
Cannon Fodder 2 is Copyright © 1993 Sensible Software.
This installer requires the Cannon Fodder 2 original disks (there are 3).
The HD-Patched game will need about 4Mb of memory. 512K of chip should
be enough. It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs (up to '060).
The game was also patched for NTSC users.
Report me any bugs you'll find.
INSTALLATION:
Click on the Install_Cannon2 icon to install the game.
Due to a problem with overlapping files, I had to include 2 small files from the game.
Don't try to install the game 'by hand', because some annoying bugs could occur
(soldiers not at the right place, etc...)
MAKING A SAVE DISK:
The in-game 'FORMAT' option still works but it's slow because it formats all the sectors.
It's also randomly reliable.
If you've got already formatted disks and you want to create save game disks from them,
use the MakeSaveDisk script. It's much faster and much safer.
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.
Some users reported me bugs at startup. This should be fixed now cos I found
(and corrected) lots of bugs in my general HD-Install code.
For the moment, this version loads all the files in memory, and the games saves are
stored on floppy as the original did.
I'm sorry I still cannot make real HD versions, and with quit options.
I'm working on it, though.
This version loads really fast, because I succeeded in relocating the main
program in fast memory by removing the absolute memory allocation useful only
for 1Meg machines (the OS is destroyed)
I had lots of problems with this game, and I hope you'll appreciate the work.
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 (NOT FOR CRACKED VERSIONS).
E-mail me if you're interested, or if you simply like this installer.
JOINING THE AUTHOR
You can still try to e-mail me before october 96 at:
fabre@cert.fr
or
fabre@supaero.fr
and from october:
fabre@ensica.fr (for sure)
Thanx go to:
- Kenneth C. Nilsen for his general purpose assembler startup code.
- Dave Clarke for providing me the original disks.
- Sentinel for his installer script I adapted mine from.
Enjoy this great game from Sensible on your HD.
Jeff
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
5976 5680 4.9% 01-Aug-96 14:41:00 +Cannon2
1014 546 46.1% 17-Jul-96 14:18:12 +Cannon2.info
2674 1422 46.8% 23-Jul-96 16:15:54 +cannon2hd.readme
5146 1619 68.5% 17-Jul-96 14:08:10 +cannon2hd.readme.info
1 1 0.0% 01-Jan-80 00:00:00 +CFSDISK
2058 677 67.1% 23-Jul-96 16:19:52 +Install_Cannon2
1892 1026 45.7% 17-Jul-96 14:08:10 +Install_Cannon2.info
79 77 2.5% 23-Jul-96 16:03:38 +MakeSaveDisk
1828 965 47.2% 23-Jul-96 16:02:58 +MakeSaveDisk.info
91 91 0.0% 01-Nov-94 11:34:02 +MAPM1.SPT
1160 1160 0.0% 02-Nov-94 19:50:28 +MAPM37.MAP
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
21919 13264 39.4% 24-Aug-96 10:08:10 11 files