Galaxians & Scramble (Gallagher, Kevin)

[DamienD]

Heya guys,

Following on from the posts in the Old arcade classics clones thread:

Originally Posted by nobody

i could not find trix and scramble anywhere

Originally Posted by DamienD

Not sure if it's the same game and can't currently check. Take a look on the EAB File Server under my uploads directory / Non-TOSEC; there's a file called Scramble.zip.

...today I've had time to take a look

Indeed this .ADF contains "Scramble" along with "Galaxians" by Kevin Gallagher.

It's actually already in TOSEC as, surprise, surprise; "Galaxians & Scramble (1995)(Gallagher, Kevin)[h Dracs][WB].adf"

The problem is that the disk doesn't auto-boot, display the DRACS cracktro or the DRACS menu. Plus, after looking into this disk, it would only run from KS 2 or later

Anyway, been playing around and have now created a new .ADF that:

a) Works with KS 1.3 (512KB Chip & 512KB Slow RAM).
b) Shows the DRACS cracktro (via "Sho"; cheers Dr.Bong):



c) Loads the DRACS menu afterwards:



d) Both games load successfully under KS 1.3 (after a bit of messing about).

File attached for anyone that wants it, enjoy!!!

[nobody]

Galaxians is pretty close. I think they need some extra memory, when i run it with 512kb chip and 512kb slow it hangs with out of memory message

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by nobody

Galaxians is pretty close. I think they need some extra memory, when i run it with 512kb chip and 512kb slow it hangs with out of memory message

I only get that when pressing <Help> on "Scramble" to view the built-in readme.

...but yeah, maybe they aren't supposed to be run on anything less than AGA. The problem with this though is that the "Scramble" title screen text doesn't display correctly with A1200 KS 3.0 or 3.1 ROMs...

I'm currently using a KS 1.3 configuration in WinUAE but "Scramble" also runs too slow so set the CPU as 68020.

I wonder if skipping the DRACS cracktro makes any difference memory wise? I can quickly modify and put in The Zone! for you nobody if you like?

[nobody]

yes why not, but scramble is not bad but is not so close to the arcade. I liked Galaxians more in this version

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by DamienD

I wonder if skipping the DRACS cracktro makes any difference memory wise? I can quickly modify and put in The Zone! for you nobody if you like?

Originally Posted by nobody

yes why not, but scramble is not bad but is not so close to the arcade. I liked Galaxians more in this version

...just tried; no difference with "Scramble" out of memory when pressing <Help> to view the in-built readme. Otherwise the game works fine.

When do you get this with "Galaxians" though? I played a few stages and also pressed <Help> to view the in-built readme from the title screen but no crash / error.

Also, of course I can make a single .ADF for Galaxians

[nobody]

when i start scramble in WinUAE A500 configuration 512k+512k it hangs and i get out of memory message. But when i run it with A1200 configuration it runs well. Galaxians runs well on A500 mode.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by nobody

when i start scramble in WinUAE A500 configuration 512k+512k it hangs and i get out of memory message. But when i run it with A1200 configuration it runs well. Galaxians runs well on A500 mode.

Both files were compressed using "AMOS cruncher" or something...

Have now decompressed and they still fit on disk. Now when I run "Scramble" and press <Help> to view the in-built readme; no crashes / out of memory error.

Try this new disk, I image all should also now work for you

[nobody]

It works now yes

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by nobody

It works now yes

Great

Found the perfect A500 configuration to use so that both games run well:

... OCS or ECS Agnus.
... Cycle-exact off (this is the important setting really).
... Kickstart 1.3
... 512KB Chip & 512KB Slow RAM.

[DamienD]

Hmmm, noticed that in WinUAE if I didn't have "Centering - Horizontal" ticked then the DRACS cracktro would be off screen



...guess this what it would be like on a real A500.

This seems to be a limitation of "Sho"; no centering with KS 1.3.

...so, have change the disk for the final time to use "ShowIFF". This does need 3 libraries though:

a) arp.library V39+
b) iff.library
c) icon.library

New file attached, sorry...

[DrBong]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Hmmm, noticed that in WinUAE if I didn't have "Centering - Horizontal" ticked then the DRACS cracktro would be off screen

...guess this what it would be like on a real A500.

This seems to be a limitation of "Sho"; no centering with KS 1.3.

...so, have change the disk for the final time to use "ShowIFF". This does need 3 libraries though:

a) arp.library V39+
b) iff.library
c) icon.library

I know you're gonna hate me for posting this, but there is a much older version of ShowIFF (bundled with IFFLib V15.3) that doesn't seem to need arp.library. Tis up to you whether you give it a whirl or not.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by DrBong

I know you're gonna hate me for posting this, but there is a much older version of ShowIFF (bundled with IFFLib V15.3) that doesn't seem to need arp.library. Tis up to you whether you give it a whirl or not.

No, all good. Cheers for the heads-up

...probably won't bother changing the disk again though; it running perfectly

[DrBong]

@DamienD
Didn't think you'd be overly-keen.....perfectly understandable, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Have shoved it in the resource folder here, in any case, and will give it a whirl in the coming days (fingers crossed!).