24 December 2020, 00:04 | #1 |
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Arcticfox 100%
It's Christmas time again and, just like last year, I have finally finished a release that I started several years ago (2014 to be exact). This time it's Arcticfox which was finally cracked and fixed to run on (hopefully) all Amigas. Game was nicely protected and had certain bugs which needed to be fixed.
For more information check the .nfo file on disk. Merry Christmas everyone. |
24 December 2020, 00:08 | #2 |
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that's about time
I remember game first attempting to read the protected track with trackdisk device, and if that worked, didn't even call the protection as this was the sign of a copied disk. I also remember that those old EA protections completely fail on a 512k kickstart because somehow they're reading a zero page word and somehow expect to find $00FC there. If it's something else like $00F8, the protection fails... This kind of protection was also present on Marble Madness, Archon, Archon 2, possibly One on One... If you made fixes, maybe it would be nice to have them for the whdload version. |
24 December 2020, 00:12 | #3 |
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24 December 2020, 01:00 | #4 |
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Nice one, thanks
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24 December 2020, 02:03 | #5 |
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Great, thanks!
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24 December 2020, 02:24 | #6 |
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Great release thank you! I remember this game as a bridge between Epic and Campaign lol.
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24 December 2020, 07:50 | #7 |
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Thank you for the release, @StingRay!
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24 December 2020, 10:44 | #8 |
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24 December 2020, 10:55 | #9 |
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Nice. Great cracktro. Love it
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24 December 2020, 11:03 | #10 |
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Meister Sting0r strikes back!
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24 December 2020, 11:04 | #11 |
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Nice work Stingray.
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24 December 2020, 16:45 | #12 |
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Awesome, thanks Sting
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24 December 2020, 17:19 | #13 |
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Artic Fox and Marble Madness were the 2 games I originally wanted an Amiga for. But I never got Artic Fox in the end. Seems crazy it took so long to hack. Good work!
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24 December 2020, 21:34 | #14 |
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One of my all-time favourites, thanks and merry Christmas!
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25 December 2020, 08:59 | #15 |
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Thanks so much!
Tested quickly on my A500 NTSC KS 1.3, A3000 030 KS 2.1 and A4000 060 KS 3.1 works fine, but on A1200 Vampire 2 get black screen with music playing and game starts. Tried turtle mode too. No big deal though! |
25 December 2020, 10:47 | #16 |
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25 December 2020, 11:54 | #17 | |
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Basically, all of the work (cracking, fixing, intro coding) was done in a few weeks. These few weeks were spread over 6 years though. I may have a look, I'll most probably need your help for testing as I don't have any Vampire based machine at my disposal. |
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25 December 2020, 12:11 | #18 |
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25 December 2020, 12:38 | #19 |
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Not necessarily. It can still be a bug in the game code which was just not triggered on slow machines by pure luck. I do know where you are coming from though and wouldn't lose much sleep over this issue. However, if it's easy to fix, then why not do it?
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25 December 2020, 14:18 | #20 |
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Good work, its effort enough to crack this old shit let alone fixing it.
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