Creating your own IPFs

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by acd2001

Unofficial release with patch from Keith Krellwitz

Added A Prehistoric Tale, Renamed Agony to grolet as it is used by Unreal as well

Works fine here

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

The name of the track format is 'ordilogic'.

I think it was named 'grolet' seeing as Yves Grolet did both games, did it ever have an 'official' name other than the SPS name?

[acd2001]

disk-utilities from Jun 12, 2022 git da30e7a

Added A Prehistoric Tale, Renamed Agony to grolet as it is used by Unreal as well

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by acd2001

disk-utilities from Jun 12, 2022 git da30e7a

Added A Prehistoric Tale, Renamed Agony to grolet as it is used by Unreal as well

Most welcome sir, thank you

[BarryB]

Abaddon has now added support for:

Dragon's Lair II & III (ReadySoft / RL DOS)
Guy Spy (ReadySoft / RL DOS)
Space Ace I & II (ReadySoft / RL DOS)
World Championship Boxing Manager (Goliath Games or John Jones-Steele MFM)
Wrath of the Demon (ReadySoft / RL DOS)

No small feat adding the ReadySoft format I would guess

[acd2001]

disk-utilities 14/06/2022 git ff83fda
Add support for Dragon's Lair II & III, Space Ace I & II, Guy Spy, Wrath of the Demon,
and World Championship Boxing Manager.
Renamed Capone protecton to actionware as it is used by POW as well

[dlfrsilver]

Awesome

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by acd2001

disk-utilities 14/06/2022 git ff83fda
Add support for Dragon's Lair II & III, Space Ace I & II, Guy Spy, Wrath of the Demon,
and World Championship Boxing Manager.
Renamed Capone protecton to actionware as it is used by POW as well

[demoniac]

Let's see how long until the original Dragon's Lair format is supported.

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by demoniac

Let's see how long until the original Dragon's Lair format is supported.

Abaddon is looking at the original Dragon's Lair as it uses a different loader to the others, so we'll just have to wait on that one! He was looking at Wrath of the Demon initially and when that one was completed found Space Ace was similar so that's how all the others were supported! Only Escape from Singe's Castle was ever released as plain AmigaDOS disks!!

[Galahad/FLT]

I could probably get the source code from Randy Linden for the disk format for Dragons Lair, but the easiest way would be for Abaddon to look at the hard drive installer on Singes Castle that can image all the Dragons Lair disks as it joins both games together.

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I could probably get the source code from Randy Linden for the disk format for Dragons Lair, but the easiest way would be for Abaddon to look at the hard drive installer on Singes Castle that can image all the Dragons Lair disks as it joins both games together.

I'm sure that little gem of information will come in very handy indeed

[demoniac]

I vaguely remember someone mentioning that the Dragon's Lair format was difficult was due to the fact that it was designed for a obscure hard drive brand that very few people had.

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I could probably get the source code from Randy Linden for the disk format for Dragons Lair, but the easiest way would be for Abaddon to look at the hard drive installer on Singes Castle that can image all the Dragons Lair disks as it joins both games together.

This Randy Linden keeps propping up in one form or another recently. In other news, he made a Quake 2 port for the Gameboy Advance that was discovered on one of his flashcarts and I came to learn he also ported Doom to SNES using his own custom engine rather than the Doom engine. Genius!

[demoniac]

Randy also developed Bleem! emulators.

[Abaddon]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I could probably get the source code from Randy Linden for the disk format for Dragons Lair, but the easiest way would be for Abaddon to look at the hard drive installer on Singes Castle that can image all the Dragons Lair disks as it joins both games together.

Thanks for the info....I will take a look at the installer when I get around to looking at this format again.

I'm sure with a little effort I can figure out what the blitter data decoding routines for the game are doing. It has 3 blitter calls and it looks like the 3rd one is just copying the data to another location.

Not a fan of the Space Ace and Dragon's Lair games, just figured I test the games with the Wrath of the Demon decoder. Small tweak and the decoder worked for 6 games.

[acd2001]

Disk-utilies git 0139abb 18/06/2022
Add Mickey Mouse format and fixed typo in track types
for World Championship Boxing Manager

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by Abaddon

Thanks for the info....I will take a look at the installer when I get around to looking at this format again.

I'm sure with a little effort I can figure out what the blitter data decoding routines for the game are doing. It has 3 blitter calls and it looks like the 3rd one is just copying the data to another location.

Not a fan of the Space Ace and Dragon's Lair games, just figured I test the games with the Wrath of the Demon decoder. Small tweak and the decoder worked for 6 games.

Amazing what a small tweak can do

Originally Posted by acd2001

Disk-utilies git 0139abb 18/06/2022
Add Mickey Mouse format and fixed typo in track types
for World Championship Boxing Manager

Nice update, thanks again

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by acd2001

Disk-utilies git 0139abb 18/06/2022
Add Mickey Mouse format and fixed typo in track types
for World Championship Boxing Manager

Ah that's awesome !

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Ah that's awesome !

Do you have any dumps of Mickey Mouse or HOI Denis?

[Retroplay]

I upped a Mickey Mouse ipf yesterday to my user upload folder:
/~Uploads/Retroplay/Unofficial_ipf/Mickey_Mouse_-_The_Computer_Game_(1989)(Gremlin)[Unofficial_ipf].zip

T0.0: AmigaDOS
T0.1: Unformatted
T1.0-69.1: Mickey Mouse
T70.0-78.1: Unformatted
T79.0-79.1: Protoscan
T80.0-83.1: Unformatted