Typhoon Thompson

[turk182]

I thought the new release of UAE might have fixed it but typhoon thomson (quartex) crack still doesnt seem to work , Is it just me or anyone managed got it to work or have a working copy?.

And who remembers all those strange bits off poetry by Quartex on there cracks?

[Overdoc]

Yepp, I remember those poems :)
And also their war against Paranoimia, or 'Paralamia', as they called them.
But the idea with the poems existed also a bit earlier on the C64, when Eaglesoft always included poems in their intro scrolltexts.

[Akira]

Crystal also used a bit of poetry in some of their cracktros.

[turk182]

I guess nobody got this working or a working version.It did write to the disk directly so maybe I screwed my copy up somewhere.
boohoo :sad

[Toni Wilen]

I debugged this problem and the problem is caused by track loader that tries to load from track 80 (infinite loop in trackloader because disk DMA never finds any sync words) Game works if I make WinUAE ignore steps outside normal track range. (0-79)

Game works on real A500... Unfortunately I don't have working track display so I don't know if it really tries to load from track 80 or UAE drive emulation steps to wrong location or something like that.

[CodyJarrett]

I got it working, but I can't remember how.

[Fred the Fop]

If you really need a Typhoon Thompson fix, the Atari St version works perfectly on Winston or SainT. But music and graphics suffer , especially the music:p

[turk182]

well maybe its another switch/option that could be added on to uae
to ignore these trakcloader requests?.(i dunno maybe other games do this aswell.
codyjarret: Think damn it! :) Howd you did you get it to work!?

[CodyJarrett]

Hmmm. Perhaps I used my Action Replay to get the screenshot. I'll give it a go in the emulators.

[andreas]

Game works on real A500... Unfortunately I don't have working track display so I don't know if it really tries to load from track 80 or UAE drive emulation steps to wrong location or something like that.

You CAN watch it, even though you don't have a track display! :)
Petter Schau can save your life once again :)
He has built a track display into DOS Fellow 0.3.3, hidden inside the performance meter! ;)
You find the option here:
Various->Performance displayed on-screen: Yes

This will show track numbers instead of percentual performance values! :)
Hope this helps.

[Toni Wilen]

I meant I don't have real A500 with track display.. I wanted to compare differences between WinUAE and real A500. (= Does Typhoon Thompson step to track 80 on real A500)

[andreas]

OK. Got it.

Sorry - wanted to be of any help, but couldn't. :smileek
I hope that I can find an external floppy drive with track display someday. They're rare these days, you know.

[7-Zark-7]

Typhoon thompson does work on WinFellow.

[turk182]

So it Does cool!....until you play it for a while then bang! crashes out..
never mind!:sad

[radiation]

I had the Quartex crack of this game on my old a500, and it always used to bugger up once you got to a certain level anyway. It was weird, like I don't remember there being any disc-accessing beforehand, so i think the data was ok (this has been verified by checking my disc against the version in the tosec dats)...you simply finished one level and the game would just sit there, the animation still played, but the level wouldn't start. So unless somebody can come up with another version, i wouldn't spend too much time on this one.

[Toni Wilen]

WinUAE Typhoon Thompson freeze fixed. (yet another broken loader)

[turk182]

horrah! ,your my hero ;)