Need help finding a few games

[Amiganiac73]

Hi Brolly I am uploading some games from the list at the Zone

[Amiganiac73]

Hi again brolly

Hope it fills some part of your request
Some games come in compilation disks.

Well, i have more search to do with my list.

I will upload more games of your request list as I find.

Thankyou for pinball wizard 2.0

[mai]

Originally Posted by brolly

mai : Did you try running DUNE?

Yes i did, and even checked whole content of the disk for checksum errors, all files are undamaged.

Originally Posted by brolly

About Amazed, yeah probably does, but I don't really like having stuff with virus around so would prefer to get a clean copy of it. After virus removal it doesn't work though, unless the game needs a very specific config to run.

At least i got it working using WinUAE config:

1.2ROM, OCS Agnus, 512kb Chip RAM + 512kb Slow RAM

BTW. Where are the many replys to the requested games in my thread?
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=63863

[brolly]

wow thanks a lot Amiganiac73, I see I have quite a few games to try tonight
I'll let you know if I find anything else from your list as well.

mai : That's weird, maybe I'm doing some stupid mistake. Are you running the editor or the DUNE executable file? The editor seems to run fine, it's when running DUNE that I get the crc error. You need to run it from WB right? Are you mounting the dms image as a floppy or are you uncompressing it to disk?

Thanks I'll try that config for Amazed, but I believe I used it already.
I guess your thread doesn't have replies because those are games are pretty damn hard to find , your best bet is probably for someone in Germany to have those and dump them for you, I tried searching for all of them and no luck.

[Amiganiac73]

More goodies in to the Zone

[brolly]

Thanks! Where have you been digging these up? Very impressive.
I still didn't have time to test all the others, really busy week... can't wait for the weekend to finally sit down and try all these

Btw any chance you could upload All Guns Blazing, Cyadonia and Kid's Academy - Alvin's? Just noticed you managed to find those.

[brolly]

Updated my list above. Amiganiac73 thanks again for the help, couldn't get a couple of the games running though (Mace and Conversations with a computer) while a couple of others weren't the correct versions, but it helped a lot

Many of the remaining missing games are on the Amiga Spielesammlung Band 2 compilation, if only I could find it.

mai, no luck on getting Amazed to work with that same config or any others I tried. Even tested the adf with virus and same exact problem. After the title screen I hear the music and doesn't go past it

[Amiganiac73]

Hi broly,

Your very welcome,

there is some info update to make work Mace and Conversation with a Computer
Conversation with a computer got it fixed and is in the Zone.
Use with Kick v1.2 The disk is selfboot
Once in the workbench, Start the program with the START-IT Icon
It will do a chainload with all other basic modules automatically.

Mace Need the following configuration to start
Here are the parameters:

Real hardware : Amiga 500

KS ROM v1.3
68000 OCS PAL
Chip 512k
Slow 512K
------------------------------------------------------------
Emulation winuae and Gamebase

kickstart_rom=v1.3
nr_floppies=1
floppy0type=0
floppy1type=-1
floppy2type=-1
floppy3type=-1
immediate_blits=false
ntsc=false
chipset=OCS
collision_level=full
fastmem_size=2
bogomem_size=2
chipmem_size=2
cpu_speed=real
cpu_type=68000
cpu_compatible=false
cpu_cycle_exact=false
cycle_exact=true
statefile=savestates\Mace.uss

KS ROM v1.3 (A500,A1000,A2000) rev 34.5 (256k) [315093-02]
------------------------------

[brolly]

Thanks, Conversation with a computer works fine now

Mace on the other hand seems to bit hit or miss, I've tried those exact settings and on about 10 attempts the game started only twice. On the others it always crashed after pressing the mouse button on the title screen. Does the actual game start fine everytime for you?

Updated my list to remove a couple of titles found, also added 2 licenceware games I can't find anywhere (Bouncer from 5th dimension and Greenies).

[s2325]

Games by Downunder Software were always with bugs.

[Amiganiac73]

One thing i noticed with winuae is that you need to unprotect the disk so the game can be played.
If the file is zipped winuae manage the unzipped file in to a directory called SaveImages
Saveimages keep track of all the changes you do to game when saving.
So the zipped file don't suffer any changes.

Would be a good thing you check the Saveimages directory inside winae directory and delete the mace.adf image with a size of 2,104,892

Also Dependig on your version of Winuae the function "blitter_cycle_exact= " in the newer versions change to "cycle_exact= " true or false

Remeber in Gamebase GEMUS manage any command you type in to each game "key=value" pairs, so all commands most be registered
in to the main GEMUS command list.

You can change the command in your Gamebase Amiga GEMUS
for Winuae 2.3.3 and up by pressing Shift+F1

Look for

"Set_CFG_Value(%dbpath%\GameBase Amiga.uae||blitter_cycle_exact||%blitter_cycle_exact_value%)"

change to

"Set_CFG_Value(%dbpath%\GameBase Amiga.uae||cycle_exact||%cycle_exact_value%)"

without quotes

save changes pressing OK button

Look for Mace in the gamebase mainlist
Then pressing F2 change your "key=value" pairs

Look for
blitter_cycle_exact="value"

change to

cycle_exact="value"

in this case use cycle_exact=true


hope it works for you.

[brolly]

I don't use Gamebase, like you say it's configs are based on an older WinUAE also they tend to not use cycle exact on most configs. I'm actually working on a complete new setup for Hyperspin.
I always use cycle exact set to true, changed it in this one to false in order to match your config above. I'm also running the game from an unzipped adf. What I find weird is that with the same exact config the game only loads sometimes. Does it load every single time for you? Might be a good game to ask Toni to have a look at, something fishy going on with it.

[Amiganiac73]

yes it does , every time i do start the game and it pass the intro screen, let me play.
Actually I am using winuae 2.3.3

I believe the key to make it work is the RAM configuration.
It's kind of crazy config but it works every time

This is my config:
-------------------
Memory Sttings:
Chip=1MB
Fast=2MB
Slow=512K
Advanced Memory settings all to none
------------------
Chipset settings:
Chipset=OCS
Chipset Extra = Generic
Collision Level= Full
------------------------
Blitter Options:
Cycle-exact
------------------------
KCKSTART= KS1.3 Rev 34.5(256k)

[brolly]

Tested those settings and same issue, this is the error I get most of the times:


How are you getting past the intro screen btw? I'm suspecting might be a bug related to it, after clicking on it one time the music starts playing and a text message shows up on the top saying "close here after clicking below" and I click there. Usually after waiting a bit I get the error message above followed by a guru meditation error (Illegal Instruction). It usually starts on the next try after the guru reboot.
Also any chance you could attach your config file so I can test with yours?

[Amiganiac73]

hi broly

this is my config file

just change the paths and ready to go

I attached some screenshots of the game after passing intro screen.

[brolly]

Thanks, but still no luck I have the exact same problem.
I still think this has to do with how you close the intro screen, do you wait for the music to start? Press the left or right mouse button? My last attempt, and then I'll probably just forget this one

[Amiganiac73]

I press the right mouse button any place on the screen then press the left mouse button in the top left side of the screen and the intro fades out along with the music.

I guess your copy of Mace is broken or modified, i will upload the version that works for me and see if works for you.

This time try loading the game with disk protected.

Dont forget to use the memory configuration:

Chip=1MB
Fast=2MB
Slow=512K

Hope that works

[brolly]

I got my other copy from you already
The crc of both files match so it hasn't been modified. No luck, still the same problem, oh well I give up. Thanks for the help, don't really know what's going on. It's really weird I even tried on 2.3.3 since that was your version and nothing

[Amiganiac73]

Your Welcome

try no sound but emulated in the winuae sound configuration
and if starts at once, for at least 3 times then it may be sound driver problem in your pc.

[Tweeky]

i have original of thomas the tank engine, but it makes me problems to get a working adf from it i will try again soon

ADI junior helps with Reading 4-5 is in the Zone (as said in other thread i need some time to scan booklets for codes)