Typhoon Thompson

turk182 · 22 September 2001, 10:11

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 · 22 September 2001, 13:35

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.

Amiga1992 · 22 September 2001, 18:20

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

turk182 · 25 September 2001, 19:09

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

Toni Wilen · 25 September 2001, 19:34

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 · 25 September 2001, 19:35

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

Fred the Fop · 25 September 2001, 20:17

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

turk182 · 25 September 2001, 20:25

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 · 25 September 2001, 20:58

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

andreas · 26 September 2001, 01:48

Quote:

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 · 26 September 2001, 07:49

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 · 27 September 2001, 01:52

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 · 27 September 2001, 16:38

Typhoon thompson does work on WinFellow.

turk182 · 28 September 2001, 23:23

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

29 September 2001, 02:07

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 · 18 May 2002, 12:11

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

turk182 · 19 May 2002, 14:54

horrah! ,your my hero

22 September 2001, 10:11	#1
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Posts: 188	Typhoon Thompson 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?

25 September 2001, 19:35	#6
CodyJarrett Global Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: UK Age: 46 Posts: 6,160	Typhoon Thompson I got it working, but I can't remember how. Last edited by CodyJarrett; 13 March 2007 at 09:32.

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22 September 2001, 13:35	#2
Overdoc Commodore Collector Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Austria Age: 53 Posts: 944	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.

22 September 2001, 18:20	#3
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Crystal also used a bit of poetry in some of their cracktros.

25 September 2001, 19:09	#4
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Posts: 188	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

25 September 2001, 19:34	#5
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,505	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.

25 September 2001, 20:17	#7
Fred the Fop flaming faggot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Versailles Age: 55 Posts: 2,808	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

25 September 2001, 20:25	#8
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Posts: 188	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!?

25 September 2001, 20:58	#9
CodyJarrett Global Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: UK Age: 46 Posts: 6,160	Hmmm. Perhaps I used my Action Replay to get the screenshot. I'll give it a go in the emulators.

26 September 2001, 07:49	#11
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,505	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)

27 September 2001, 01:52	#12
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	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.

27 September 2001, 16:38	#13
7-Zark-7 Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brisbane/Australia Posts: 1,270	Typhoon thompson does work on WinFellow.

28 September 2001, 23:23	#14
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Posts: 188	So it Does cool!....until you play it for a while then bang! crashes out.. never mind!

29 September 2001, 02:07	#15
radiation Posts: n/a	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.

18 May 2002, 12:11	#16
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,505	WinUAE Typhoon Thompson freeze fixed. (yet another broken loader)

19 May 2002, 14:54	#17
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Posts: 188	horrah! ,your my hero

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