Putty Squad ????

[RetroMan]

I was at a friend some weeks ago and we played Super Putty CD32. Today I downloaded the Putty Squad Demo and what´s that ??? The levels seem to be the exact same ?? May it be that Putty Squad was never released to bring it for the CD32 with a different name ??? Shame my friend is on holiday, so I cannot clearly compare, does anyone got any screenshot of the CD32 version of Super Putty ??????

[Mark]

I have completed the eight level demo, it has taken me about six months.
Does it or doesn't it exist, the saga of Putty Squad lives on.:laughing

[Marky boy]

Hi,

Amiga Power previewed this in issue 40 with a couple of screenshots.
I know it was reviewed later in a couple of mags.
Maybe you can compile a list of all the sightings of this game in the various mags.
I can confirm AP40 (August '94) Preview.

Good luck in your search.

BTW anyone know what happened to the review copies?

[Mark]

Retroman, I have found the .iso file for the cd32 version of super putty, I am not sure what can be done with it apart from looking at it and wishing I had purchased a cd32 all those years ago. If anyone wants it I can forward it to them.

Marky Boy, the issue you mention is where the demo I completeed came from.

The game was released by Alive Mediasoft in 98 ?, but it appears the company went tits up.
Before or after it was available commercially, I do not know.

The search continues..............

[Shatterhand]

The Augustu 94 issue of The One has a review of Putty Squad, and it says "Out in September" ...

Dunno if you guys (or Akira for that matter) are interested, but I have Putty Squad for SNES .....

[Drake1009]

I'd like to see the putty squad for SNES at any rate.

[RetroMan]

Originally posted by Mark
Retroman, I have found the .iso file for the cd32 version of super putty, I am not sure what can be done with it apart from looking at it and wishing I had purchased a cd32 all those years ago. If anyone wants it I can forward it to them.

Marky Boy, the issue you mention is where the demo I completeed came from.

The game was released by Alive Mediasoft in 98 ?, but it appears the company went tits up.
Before or after it was available commercially, I do not know.

The search continues..............
Hmmm, the CD32 isos I know aren´t very big in size (for example the Elite2-Frontier iso was 400KB :D) any chance it fits to THE ZONE ?

[Drake1009]

Even if it exceeds the limit size of a file it could be split right?

But if it's larger than 10 MB (Probably a lower limit) I'd say RCK should at least give his approval first right?

[RCK]

No problem for me guys, you can upload what you want there.
The 3 days auto kill limit was done for that.

[Mark]

I hope this is of use to someone, unfortunately as far as I know I can't do anything with it ?

[Frog]

You can use it with the WHDLoad install for Putty.

If you own a real amiga, you can also use the CD32emul from Idefix package. I think there's some others CD32emul on amiga but I've no idea if they run on UAE.

[Ian]

I have uploaded a CD32 emulator into the zone, maybe it'll work with the iso:)

I haven't tried this emulator? so I don't know if it works.

Theres one way you can find out;)


BTW it's an ADF NOT a PC based emulator

[RetroMan]

@Ian

That Emu you uploaded (CD³²) is in fact the version that comes with CacheCDFS, I know cause I got it installed on my real A1200 :D just wanted you to know ;)

[Drake1009]

Is there a way to emulate a CD-drive on the Amiga from an ISO file? Sort of like Daemontools for the PC?

I don't have a CD drive for my Amiga but I'd like to try this game out. Is it at all possible? Or could WinUAE do it? Or does someone know how to copy CD32 games to HD and could do so? Like for example the game Humans where the CD32 version was copied?

[RetroMan]

Originally posted by Drake1009
Is there a way to emulate a CD-drive on the Amiga from an ISO file? Sort of like Daemontools for the PC?
Try MountISO.lha from Aminet, I never tried, cause my A1200 got a CDROM Drive ;) but this *should* do the trick :)

[Paul]

I tried to create a CD from the ISO image, which was successful, and have uploaded the files from the CD into the zone.

Only problem is I still was not able to get the game to run in WinUAE. It was worth a try anyway.

If anyone can get this game to run please could you attach the config or patch.

[RetroMan]

Just wait for Toni to release his unofficial WinUAE-CD³²-Version :D:D:D

[Mark]

The demo of Putty squad was AGA and does not run under emulation, I'll transfer all the files to my miggy 1200 and give it a go.
I'll let you know how I got on later.

[Shatterhand]

I've just uploaded SNES' Putty Squad into the zone :)

[Paul]

Originally posted by Mark
The demo of Putty squad was AGA and does not run under emulation, I'll transfer all the files to my miggy 1200 and give it a go.
I'll let you know how I got on later.

The demo of Putty squad does Work in Winuae but you need to use the latest version

See http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=740&highlight=putty

[Toni Wilen]

I tested Putty Squad CD32 with my CD32-WinUAE. It won't work, it loads multiple sectors from CD without problems but then it stops the system and reads/writes to Akiko's address space and keeps waiting for response. I didn't detect any read or write accesses to Akiko's C2P register (0xb80038).

I guess it tries to access CD-ROM directly (Akiko is also CD32's CD controller) or maybe it tries to read the contents of NVRAM (Not sure if Akiko handles this too?)

Unfortunately Akiko documentation seems to be nonexistant which means disassembling CD32 ROMs is the only (and the most hardest and slowest) way for understanding the meaning of Akiko's registers...

[Paul]

I have just noticed that there is more data on Marks iso image than I first thought.

If I copy all the files from the CD made from the iso to the HD, the files consume only 1.79 MB of disk space.

But the CD says it has 50MB of data.

What is this other data? It's not CD Audio:confused

I guess it tries to access CD-ROM directly (Akiko is also CD32's CD controller) or maybe it tries to read the contents of NVRAM (Not sure if Akiko handles this too?)

This must be what the extra data on the CD the game is trying to load.

[Frog]

Why did you bother to make it run under CD32 or using a burning cd from iso file ?

Perhaps you miss what i've said previously but you can use the Putty slave available on WHDLoad page with the iso file.
Just copy all files and enjoy the game :)

[Paul]

Originally posted by Frog
Why did you bother to make it run under CD32 or using a burning cd from iso file ?

Perhaps you miss what i've said previously but you can use the Putty slave available on WHDLoad page with the iso file.
Just copy all files and enjoy the game :)

I did not know I could do this. Anyway I had to make a CD from the 1 ISO image file to be able to copy the game files to HD as WinUAE does not support *.iso files. Thanks for the tip as it worked.:)

Right now What I have found out.

SuperPuttyCD32 is the same a Silly Putty not the Putty Squad demo.

The SNES Putty Squad game levels are Identically the same as the Amigas Putty Squad demo.

Picture of SuperPuttyCD32 running using the WHDLOAD putty install.

[Paul]

The SuperPutty CD32 working WHDLOAD game is in the zone.

Unzip into your HD games directory. For icons make sure you have NewIcons installed.

[Amigaboy]

SuperPuttyCD32 is the same a Silly Putty not the Putty Squad demo.

DOH! Maybe I should have stepped in and said that. I thought everyone knew

[Mark]

I was playing putty squad all day yesterday on the snes, my wrists are swollen this morning ( no comments please).
Many thanks shatterhand.

[RetroMan]

I really don´t know much technical details of the CD³² but there´s one thing I don´t understand : The A1200 doesn´t have a Akiko Chip, right ? So why the hell does the CD³² Version run on my real A1200 (from CD) and not in WinUAE, could someone try to explain ?? Even Genetic Species runs fine from CD in WinUAE :confused Ok, it´s no CD³² game I admit .....

[Amigaboy]

It runs on your A1200 cause it doesn't use the Akiko chip. Most CD32 games are literally just copied onto CD from disk.

Those games that do use Akiko won't run though

[RetroMan]

:suspiciou You sure ? I´m pretty sure I allready played Microcosm on my A1200 and THAT one uses Akiko !! Hmmmm, think I´ll have to search for the CD at home :p

[Amigaboy]

Akiko emulation possibly?

Are you using the CD32 emulator for Amiga?

[RetroMan]

Since it came with my CacheCDFS package, sure I do, else I wouldn´t have all buttons to play certain games ;)

[Amigaboy]

Then that's the likely reason :)

[RetroMan]

Well, but then after all, we should perhaps test a bit around with the CD³²-Emulator that IAN posted some days (hours) ago..... It´s a standalone Version on one disk ..... maybe someone has success :)