Short : HD-Installer for Buck Rogers
Type : game/patch
Author : Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@free.fr)

Install-Script & HD-loader © 2001 Jean-François Fabre

Buck Rogers is © 1990 TSR

Features:

- Runs fully from HD using WHDLoad and KickEmu/KickDos
- Convenient patch script (you need to install the game with the original
  install first, then apply this patch)
- Fixed startup, avoids "Insert Buck2 disk" (due to non zeroed registers)
- Quit key (numerical '*', or configurable with QUITKEY)
- Password protection now fully removed
- Once patched, can be moved anywhere without having to edit the 'pathname' file
- Saves to HD
- UK & German versions supported (and possibly more...)
- Some OS swaps removed
- Nice icon by Exoticons
- Walkthrough included
- Doc file included

History:

- v1.0: this release. Fixed support for german version. Cracked versions should also
  work now :)
- v0.9: first release. Only UK version supported.

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Notes:

* First time you run the installed game, the screen remains black for 10 seconds and
  HD is accessed. This is perfectly normal. Savegames are created empty in order to
  avoid OS swaps when you load/save a game.
* This is beta, I spent already too much time on it, but I know there are bugs in the
  original game; If you experiment crashes during fights (the original game did GURU),
  please try to save the game just before a point where you suspect that it could
  happen, and send it to me. I may be able to figure the problem out.
* you NEED to install the game using the original HD installer before you can
  use this patch (this is because the executable is unpacked during the original
  install and I have no idea how it is done, so I leave it like this, since it works)
* When you save some data to disk, the game may tell you 'No room on this disk,
  try another disk?'. Just say yes, and it will work. I could not remove the message.
* Once installed, the game can be moved anywhere else, archived, etc... because the
  pathName file problem (containing original installation path) has been fixed.
  The game also used the "assign" command to set some assign, which is no longer needed
  now, so the simplest way was to create a dummy assign program, which does nothing.
* I hope Jonhatan will be happy about this one, and maybe a dozen of other people :)


Requirements:

 The game requires a installed A500 Kickstart 1.3 image.
 The kickstart image must be located in the directory "Devs:Kickstarts" and
 must be named "kick34005.A500". The image can be extracted from a A500 with
 tools like 'GrabKick' or similar which can be found on aminet.
 If the image is of wrong version or altered in any way WHDLoad will quit with
 a appropriate requester.
 Additionally the file "kick34005.A500.RTB" must be installed in the same
 directory as the kickstart image. It can be found in the archive 
 "util/boot/skick343.lha" on aminet.

Thanks to Bert Jahn for writing kickemu.s kickstart interface system.