Lamborghini American Challenge from Titus

[dlfrsilver]

Happy new year everyone, health, jobs, and chicks

Let's start this year right with The original version of Lamborghini American Challenge with its atari ST protected track

In teh zone ! Enjoy

[dlfrsilver]

No one like this game ?

[zipper]

Must have a test - never got Crazy Cars III to work via WHDLoad.

[Arnie]

It's like a juced with the betting. Got as far as that and gave up. I hate games you have to spend (what seems like an eon) setting up.

Unfortunately for me it's not playable in default WinUAE settings. You have to change port 1 to keyboard b to select player 2 on my laptop.

Crazy Cars III has a better soundtrack for sure, with the perfect mood for the style of game.

The option to bet against your rivals in the race adds a great dynamic feature to single player mode which unfortunately you never see adopted in modern racing games.

The game is a bit too slow in two player mode on a basic A500 but fast on a A1200 .
I transfered it yesterday and it is worth playing in 2 players mode definitively^^.

[liviux76]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Happy new year everyone, health, jobs, and chicks

Let's start this year right with The original version of Lamborghini American Challenge with its atari ST protected track

In teh zone ! Enjoy

Hello all!
Would it be possible to re-upload this file in the zone?

I wasn't able to find it in the FTP server... thanks!

[Retroplay]

It's still there:
http://grandis.nu:81/eabsearch/searc...xclude=&limit=

[liviux76]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

It's still there:
http://grandis.nu:81/eabsearch/searc...xclude=&limit=

Apparently I missed it... I am not able to open the link now, I'll try later when I get home, thanks!

[liviux76]

I downloaded the file and I would like to write it back in a floppy (my original disk 1 doesn't work anymore).

I tried to convert the adf file to ipf file with disk-analyse (a free Linux tool I found here) but it gives me an error.

I also read that PowerCopy is able to write extended adf file but I don't know hot to do that since I have to choose a path as "source device" not a file...

Could anyone suggest me what to do? Thanks!

[dlfrsilver]

Lamborghini Challenge use a long track, which can't be copied back. If you want to copy it back, just download a cracked version

[liviux76]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Lamborghini Challenge use a long track, which can't be copied back. If you want to copy it back, just download a cracked version

Thanks, I've already found an adf without cracktro that looks like the original but I was curious if it was possible to "convert" some way an extended adf (not just for this game but with different games as well).

I read that it is possible to do something using MFMWarp or WWarp but I don't know ho to use those programs (and if they really help for my "purpose").

[dlfrsilver]

Lamborghini use a long track, which is $19XX long, when a standard drive can only write $1871 (something like that).

[Supamax]

Originally Posted by liviux76

I tried to convert the adf file to ipf file with disk-analyse (a free Linux tool I found here)

Very interesting!!!

I read that it "Converts From & To: SPS/IPF, SPS/CTRaw, ADF, Extended ADF, LibDisk (.DSK), Supercard Pro (.SCP), ImageDisk (.IMD), Sector Image (.IMG)".

Is it really able to convert, for example, from Extended ADF to IPF ??

Is there a Windows version?

[Retroplay]

I tried to convert and was also unsuccessful.
The game needs to be added in formats database in disk-analyse it seems.
Keir you reading this ? (oh and nice job with HFE support)

pilfinger@pilfinger-VirtualBox ~/Shared $ disk-analyse -fprobe_amiga Lambo1.adf Lambo1.ipf
T0.0-78.1: AmigaDOS
T79.0: Unformatted*
T79.1-83.1: Unformatted
** WARNING: 1 tracks are damaged or unidentified!

Using 'all' parameter isn't any good either:

pilfinger@pilfinger-VirtualBox ~/Shared $ disk-analyse -fall Lambo1.adf Lambo1.ipf
T0.0-78.1: AmigaDOS
T79.0-82.1: Raw SD
T83.0-83.1: Unformatted
disk-analyse: IPF: Switching to SPS encoder.

The image boots and seems to work, but as soon as you are about to start a race, it locks up and crashes after a short while.

[dlfrsilver]

The copy protection of Lamborghini is not handled by disk-analyse, because it's an ST/IBM protection track, not an amiga one

That's why disk-analyse reports it as 'unformatted'.

[Supamax]

I would like to test it with some programs/formats, too , but I don't have/want Linux.

Could someone be kind enough to compile a Windows executable of disk-analyse and Zone it?

[liviux76]

Originally Posted by Supamax

I would like to test it with some programs/formats, too , but I don't have/want Linux.

Could someone be kind enough to compile a Windows executable of disk-analyse and Zone it?

There is a Windows version of disk-analyse (that, initially, it seems was called mfmparse) I have no idea if it works or not But you can read more here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=62217and here
http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=324

Windows version of disk-analyse is in the zone (I don't remember where I took it from and I never used it since I don't use Windows systems).

[Supamax]

Thank you very much, liviux76 .