Small problem with TELEWAR ((c) Scott Lamb 1987)

[andreas]

Yes, that seems to be a very rare one, not even in the MIA oder in the HAVE list from Cody.
Seems I just dug out another rarity...

Anyway there's a SMALL problem with the mouse pointer. Toni, hopefully you can fix this and/or find the reason if it's something in the startup-sequence preventing this game from working.
I tested it on 0.8.8 R8 and 0.8.17 R2 - the latest version doesn't show the pointer either.
However, there IS a way - you can move the mouse to the upper right corner and click around near the two window-to-front/window-to-back gadgets - in most cases, the mouse pointer will appear.
But I'm interested in the cause of WHY it's hidden. (Winfellow does display it properly.)

This game requires a VERY special configuration - A500 configuration with 1 MB Chip Mem, and don't use any fast or slow mem.
You must use Kickstart 1.2, no matter if you're using WinFellow or WinUAE.
It's in the zone. :)

[Toni Wilen]

Anyway there's a SMALL problem with the mouse pointer

I think this is simply caused by stupid crack intro that does not re-enable sprite dma. I have also seen other programs with this problem. The easiest way to fix this is to press Amiga+N. (KS rewrites DMA control register every time screen position/depth is modified)

Can anyone test this game with real KS 1.2 A500? (I only have KS 1.3 A500) Of course it is always possible that this problem is caused by UAE timing error.

This game requires a VERY special configuration - A500 configuration with 1 MB Chip Mem, and don't use any fast or slow mem.

Works with KS1.2, 0.5B Chip + only 1 floppy drive. (every enabled floppy drive takes about 20KB of chip RAM for buffers)

[andreas]

It crashed with 512K Chip PLUS 512K Slow mem.
So maybe your config will also crash if you add some slow mem. AFAICS, I wouldn't recommend this.

The easiest way to fix this is to press Amiga+N.

Ah, thanks for this! Yes this works fine for me! :)