Infection (Old Amiga Format Free Cover Game)

11 June 2006, 12:43

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone possibly had this game as an ADF to play on my PC emulator.

It was called infection (or possibly infestation).

It was a free PD game on the front of an old Amiga Format cover disk.

It had 4 courners each with little circles and the goal was to get the other circles as your colour by moving your circle near the others which will infect the others to become your own.

Its a bit hard to describe but was highly addictive.

Anyone possibly know where to find it.

Thanks
Anth

Retro-Nerd · 11 June 2006, 12:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anth

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone possibly had this game as an ADF to play on my PC emulator.

It was called infection (or possibly infestation).

It was a free PD game on the front of an old Amiga Format cover disk.

It had 4 courners each with little circles and the goal was to get the other circles as your colour by moving your circle near the others which will infect the others to become your own.

Its a bit hard to describe but was highly addictive.

Anyone possibly know where to find it.

Thanks
Anth

Do you meant this one?

http://hol.abime.net/3590
http://www.pressibus.org/charge/ataxx/emuinfection.zip

DamienD · 11 June 2006, 12:52

Hello Anth,

Welcome to EAB

You could try searching http://www.planetemu.net/ to see if it's there.

Also for cover disks try these sites:

http://nthdimension.emuunlim.com/

http://amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com/

Edit: looks like Retro-Nerd beat me to it

12 June 2006, 10:58

Thank you ever so much for finding this for me RetroNerd.

I thought it was literally going to be impossible mission to get a hold of this.

Also after looking through my old hard copies of my big pile of Amiga Magazines i have kept it was Amiga Power the game free with. Which amazes me even more that you knew the game i was refering to and found it for me.

Thank You
Anthony

andreas · 12 June 2006, 20:15

Hmmmm...
Quoting HOL ...

Quote:

The Amiga version was found in 2000 and also released in 2 versions, one for real Amigas and a special version for emulators. The Amiga version is actually broken, with a missing file (bmaps/copdata) which causes the title screen to appear as a rolling screen of random data. You can still click on various spots on the screen to get it to work.

The author thought this error was due to poor emulation and removed the title screen animated version and compiled another version. This version is the one used to obtain the screenshots for this entry.

That's very disappointing.

Well that was in 2000, but now we have 2006 with a much more advanced emulator!
Why didn't that joker of an author not release the version *WITH* that missing BMAP file?!

I must admit, the "title screen" looks very "empty".

Codetapper · 12 June 2006, 23:01

Because he didn't realise the file was missing! He obviously did not have access to a real Amiga at the time, and guessed the disk version he had would work on a real Amiga.

andreas · 12 June 2006, 23:09

Thanks for the clarification.
I see, well that might not be unimportant to add in the notes. The notes rather give the impression that the author said "bleh, the emulator can't do that" and so compiled a version "optimized for emulators" (yuck). As this disease has originated from first steps C64 emulation times roughly 10 years ago (0.1x versions of VICE-Linux) I'm a bit more than averagely interested to not fall into this again.---

To cut a long story short, wouldn't it be possible in 2006 to contact the author again to supply the original version of his software with that BMAP in? I wager that due to Toni's numerous copper code fixes for demos, this will work perfectly now! This is not WinUAE 0.8.21 anymore!

And we could get a title screen scan in HOL.

Codetapper · 13 June 2006, 10:51

I tried to contact him when I did the WHDLoad patch and got no reply. You are welcome to retry!

andreas · 13 June 2006, 13:14

Thank you for that.

Well OK, I can try.

11 June 2006, 12:43	#1
Anth Posts: n/a	Infection (Old Amiga Format Free Cover Game) Hi, I was wondering if anyone possibly had this game as an ADF to play on my PC emulator. It was called infection (or possibly infestation). It was a free PD game on the front of an old Amiga Format cover disk. It had 4 courners each with little circles and the goal was to get the other circles as your colour by moving your circle near the others which will infect the others to become your own. Its a bit hard to describe but was highly addictive. Anyone possibly know where to find it. Thanks Anth

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11 June 2006, 12:52	#3
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Hello Anth, Welcome to EAB You could try searching http://www.planetemu.net/ to see if it's there. Also for cover disks try these sites: http://nthdimension.emuunlim.com/ http://amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com/ Edit: looks like Retro-Nerd beat me to it

12 June 2006, 10:58	#4
Anth Posts: n/a	Thank you ever so much for finding this for me RetroNerd. I thought it was literally going to be impossible mission to get a hold of this. Also after looking through my old hard copies of my big pile of Amiga Magazines i have kept it was Amiga Power the game free with. Which amazes me even more that you knew the game i was refering to and found it for me. Thank You Anthony

12 June 2006, 23:01	#6
Codetapper 2 contact me: email only! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Auckland / New Zealand Posts: 3,182	Because he didn't realise the file was missing! He obviously did not have access to a real Amiga at the time, and guessed the disk version he had would work on a real Amiga.

12 June 2006, 23:09	#7
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Thanks for the clarification. I see, well that might not be unimportant to add in the notes. The notes rather give the impression that the author said "bleh, the emulator can't do that" and so compiled a version "optimized for emulators" (yuck). As this disease has originated from first steps C64 emulation times roughly 10 years ago (0.1x versions of VICE-Linux) I'm a bit more than averagely interested to not fall into this again.--- To cut a long story short, wouldn't it be possible in 2006 to contact the author again to supply the original version of his software with that BMAP in? I wager that due to Toni's numerous copper code fixes for demos, this will work perfectly now! This is not WinUAE 0.8.21 anymore! And we could get a title screen scan in HOL.

13 June 2006, 10:51	#8
Codetapper 2 contact me: email only! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Auckland / New Zealand Posts: 3,182	I tried to contact him when I did the WHDLoad patch and got no reply. You are welcome to retry!

13 June 2006, 13:14	#9
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Thank you for that. Well OK, I can try.

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