Megatraveller slave

[BlueAchenar]

Originally Posted by prowler

Hi BlueAchenar,

Good luck with that from me too!

prowler

Thanks mate!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

I already know what the problem is, that's why I saw it coming.

Ah, a predetermined breaking point No offense mate I know how such things work and it's always good to have some testers for these situations Don't worry if you have no time right now. I'll test it further once you've fixed the bug

[BlueAchenar]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Ah, a predetermined breaking point No offense mate I know how such things work and it's always good to have some testers for these situations Don't worry if you have no time right now. I'll test it further once you've fixed the bug

The problem goes like this. I've made a detection routine which should quit to the OS when the user presses 'Quit' in the game, instead of quiting to the emulated 1.3 OS. The problem is the game is divided into several executables which call each other and quit to release control to the next executable. So, it seems like GROUND.EXE called SPACE.EXE, quitted, and the slave thought it was quitting time, so it quitted.

[TCD]

Hehe, I see There must be a 'best practise' way to deal with this situation. Maybe you should make a new thread and ask for it

[BlueAchenar]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Hehe, I see There must be a 'best practise' way to deal with this situation. Maybe you should make a new thread and ask for it

There's actually a "sure thing" way of dealing with this which is the one I'm going for now.

So my question is: what it the OS legal way of detecting a left mouse click, as opposed to "btst #6,$bfe001"?

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

So my question is: what it the OS legal way of detecting a left mouse click, as opposed to "btst #6,$bfe001"?

You need to check the IDCMP messages, i.e. IDCMP_MOUSEBUTTONS in your case. For that you'd need a pointer to the userport of the current window to receive the message. Check if there are any GetMsg() calls within the game and intercept them. For better understanding here's a code snippet from a diskmag engine I coded years ago:

.LOOP    move.l    win(a4),a5
    move.l    wn_userport(a5),a0
    move.l    $4.w,a6
    jsr    _LVOWaitPort(a6)

    move.l    wn_userport(a5),a0
    jsr    _LVOGetMsg(a6)
    tst.l    d0
    beq.b    .LOOP
    move.l    d0,a1
    move.l    im_class(a1),d6
    move.w    im_code(a1),d7
    jsr    _LVOReplyMsg(a6)
    moveq    #-1,d0
    lea    .TAB(pc),a0
.search    addq.w    #1,d0
    cmp.l    (a0)+,d6
    bne.b    .search
    move.w    .TAB2(pc,d0.w*2),d0
    jsr    .TAB2(pc,d0.w)
    CHECKERROR    .error
    tst.b    quit(a4)
    beq.b    .LOOP

    ....

.TAB    dc.l    IDCMP_RAWKEY
    dc.l    IDCMP_VANILLAKEY
    dc.l    IDCMP_MOUSEMOVE
    dc.l    IDCMP_MOUSEBUTTONS

.TAB2    dc.w    HANDLE_RAWKEYS-.TAB2
    dc.w    HANDLE_VANKEYS-.TAB2
    dc.w    HANDLE_MOUSE-.TAB2
    dc.w    HANDLE_MOUSEBUTTONS-.TAB2

Hope that helps.

[BlueAchenar]

Thanks StingRay. I tried another way.

Here you go TCD, I wouldn't leave my only tester with nothing to do. Copy it over your slave file in the game drawer.

[TCD]

Okay, getting in the ship works and also back to the planet. The quitkey correctly gets back to WB. Seems like it's fixed Will read the manual tonight and play again tomorrow

[BlueAchenar]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Okay, getting in the ship works and also back to the planet. The quitkey correctly gets back to WB. Seems like it's fixed Will read the manual tonight and play again tomorrow

Actually, is the "Quit" menu options that should work and not the quit key (which always works), but I've tested them and they work. I'm 99% sure the game is finishable now. The other 1% is for CPU model related bugs.

[BlueAchenar]

How's that going TCD? Any crashes yet?

[TCD]

Erm, nope because I haven't played it yet I will test it tonight when I'm back home mate

[BlueAchenar]

As soon as you finish MT1, MT2 will be waiting for you TCD. Only the quit detection patch is left to do, and the installer of course.

Edit: And maybe a way to skip that damn long intro Oh, and support for the german version.

[TCD]

Wow, that's fast mate I won't have much time to test MT1 this week, so maybe someone else can take the job for MT2 Looks like you really like this
Btw : No bugs showed up today

[BlueAchenar]

So, TCD... any bugs yet? I actually found an improvement to do, but nothing important. Hope you finish it soon so I can submit my first slave to Wepl

[BlueAchenar]

Anyone finished it yet?

[TCD]

For me : nope I'm still on it (well at least kinda ) and no problem on WinUAE so far. Might be a good idea if someone could test this one on his real Amiga

[Rixa]

Any news on this?

It seems that the version in Space Legends compilation differs. Think you'll have a look at that one too? I got me that compilation because it contains the only supported version of Elite. Then it'd just be Wing Commander left..

[Mad-Matt]

Space Legends contains the Copylock version. I sent images sometime ago, so one day may be supported. Give psygore a prod for wing commander