THIS PACKAGE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO USE, RESULTS AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE PACKAGE IS ASSUMED BY YOU AND IF THE PACKAGE SHOULD PROVE
TO BE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR OTHER REMEDIATION.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, CAN THE AUTHOR BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE
CAUSED IN ANY USUAL, SPECIAL, OR ACCIDENTAL WAY, ALSO IF THE OWNER OR A THIRD
PARTY HAS BEEN POINTED AT SUCH POSSIBILITIES OF DAMAGE.
This install applies to "Megademo" 1989 Royal Amiga Force.
Requirements:
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This install requires WHDLoad and RawDIC to be in the path.
These programs can be found in the WHDLoad package.
To install from a different drive than DF0: select installation mode Expert.
The installed demo requires 0.5 MB ChipMem (+1.4 MB OtherMem for preload)
It can be quit by pressing F10 (key can be changed with Tooltype "QuitKey=").
Features:
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- Full load from HD (real files!)
- Illegal copperlist entries fixed (too many to count!)
- All system stuff patched (InitBitMap/InitRastPort ect.)
- Blitter wait added
- Self-modifying code fixed
- Access fault fixed
- CPU dependent delay loops fixed (x3)
- Timing fixed
- Graphics problems in end part fixed (incomplete copperlists)
- All decrunchers (ByteKiller) relocated to fast memory and error check added
- DMA wait in replayer fixed (x17)
- Byte write to volume register in replayer fixed (x8)
- Interrupts fixed
- NewIcon (created by me)
- Source code included as usual
- Quit option that works on 68000 machines (default key is 'F10')
This patch should have been finished long ago (2010) but I somehow completely
forgot about it. Some days ago someone asked if this patch had been released
and since it wasn't for obvious reasons I restarted the patch from scratch
as I couldn't find my old code anywhere. It was better anyway as I now
made the patch using real files whereas the old one used disk images.
Still an entertaining demo even though it doesn't feature any advanced
code. Worth to mention though is that the "filled vector graphics" part
uses matrices to calculate the rotations, not too common back in 1989!
The code had a lot of small problems, specially the coppperlists were
quite buggy. I also had to emulate/recode quite a few routines which
used graphics library functions for drawing/screen setup etc. but that
wasn't too hard to do anyway.
Enough said, enjoy yet another classic demo from HD, the loader tune
by Felix Schmidt/Suntronic is excellent!
The demo can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/R/Royal_Amiga_Force/RAF-Megademo-A.DMS
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/R/Royal_Amiga_Force/RAF-Megademo-B.DMS
Have a nice weekend everyone, more patches will follow soon.
Sting, 19-Jun-2014
Greetings to all in Scarab and Scoopex, the WHDLoad team, PMC,
Musashi5150, Skan, Slummy, Loaderror, Frequent, Wayne Kerr, Mr.Spiv,
Alpha One, CFou!, Paradroid and all the other usual suspects. :)
Special greetings to all Golf MK1 fans worldwide and all classic
car owners/drivers. :)
Extra greetings to the usual suspects on #amigascne, see you all at
Revision 2015! :)
History:
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version 1.01 (15.07.2014)
- fixed bug in InitBitMap patch (accidentally used a word instead
of byte for depth) in filled vector part which made the part
crash on 68000 machines, thanks to Yulquen74 for reporting
version 1.00 (19.06.2014) done by StingRay:
- initial version
- source code included
Contact:
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If you have problems with this installation please try and get a newer
version of this package from the WHDLoad WWW-Page. If that doesn't help try
some Tooltypes like NOCACHE, NOAUTOVEC, EXPCHIP, NOMMU, PAL or NTSC. If
that also fails, please inform the author via the Bug-Report-Form which
can be accessed on the WHDLoad WWW-Page.
For the full WHDLoad package, other installs and updates refer to:
http://www.whdload.de/
or aminet:dev/misc/whdload#?
and aminet:game/patch/ |
