DamienD's WinUAE Collection - Page 51

BullyDog · 08 July 2018, 11:56

Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks?

Specksynder · 08 July 2018, 18:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

On a side note; thanks for your support / encouragement... I guess this means you are enjoying my collection and appreciate all the hard work that's gone into it

He's not the only one.

Thanks again for this wonderful work Damien!

DamienD · 08 July 2018, 18:37

Cheers guys, it's nice comments / feedback like this that makes me very happy indeed and glad that I didn't keep the collection to myself / shared with all of you

DamienD · 09 July 2018, 19:15

Following on from this post in the TOSEC Amiga Correction Thread thread:

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Heya guys,

I don't usually do compilation disks in my collection but made an exception here...

Anyway, I've noticed that this cool disk still isn't included in TOSEC:

Ice Crack & Renegades (Infernal Byte Systems).adf

...in The Zone! for you

I've decided to split the multi-game disk into separate ones

Instead of the configuration / game:

Code:

Ice Crack & Renegades (Infernal Bytes)

...you now have the following with individual title / sshots:

Code:

Ice Crack & Data Disk
Renegades (Infernal Byte Systems)

So, please do the following:

Delete the configuration file "C:\WinUAE\Configurations\Ice Crack & Renegades (Infernal Bytes).uae".
Delete the directory "C:\WinUAE\Games\Ice Crack & Renegades (Infernal Bytes)".
Download / extract the attached archive into C:\WinUAE.

jabybau · 09 July 2018, 19:56

tks Damien!!!!!

DamienD · 09 July 2018, 20:08

Thanks jabybau for your support. It's custom things like this that make my collection unique and you won't find elsewhere

I've been wanting to split this disk for a long time now but other things have gotten in the way...

I had today off work so thought I should finally make it happen

jabybau · 09 July 2018, 20:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Thanks jabybau for your support. It's custom things like this that make my collection unique and you won't find elsewhere

I've been wanting to split this disk for a long time now but other things have gotten in the way...

I had today off work so thought I should finally make it happen

You actually deserve our support since your collection lets us dream a lot of old times.....
keep it up mate!!!

BullyDog · 10 July 2018, 00:53

What does TOSEC mean?

zoodah · 10 July 2018, 01:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by BullyDog

What does TOSEC mean?

TOSEC: The Old School Emulation Center

Dunny · 10 July 2018, 02:15

TOSEC is a way to catalogue all the old games and apps. They store the checksums of disks and stuff so you can check which games you have against their database, and they also rename the files so you can see the publisher, hacks/trainers status, virus infections etc.

Personally I used to hate the naming scheme but lately I've come to appreciate it.

BullyDog · 10 July 2018, 02:27

I can appreciate it too as this is a learning process for me. I'm all new to Amiga and I like it.

I like it a lot.

BullyDog · 10 July 2018, 02:44

Damien, can you tell me what the activity bar on the bottom mean? I can see the 4 rightmost boxes as the floppy drives. What are the rest?

I loaded Diggers and I can see that the two drives were active. The music played and ended but no play screen.

At this point I had no clue whether I need to wait some more or did it stopped.

Thanks.

ransom1122 · 10 July 2018, 04:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Code:

Ice Crack & Data Disk
Renegades (Infernal Byte Systems)

So, please do the following:

Nice job.

I am not a fan of multiple games on one disk.. Games always seem to get forgotten this way.

DamienD · 10 July 2018, 05:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by BullyDog

Damien, can you tell me what the activity bar on the bottom mean? I can see the 4 rightmost boxes as the floppy drives. What are the rest?

From left to right:

CPU
FPS
Power
Hard Drive
CD Drive
DF0
DF1
DF2
DF3

Quote:

Originally Posted by BullyDog

I loaded Diggers and I can see that the two drives were active. The music played and ended but no play screen.

At this point I had no clue whether I need to wait some more or did it stopped.

Thanks.

After the language selection screen the intro will load, press the mouse button to continue here

...but there seems to be a problem. I haven't played this game since 2015 and using an older version of WinUAE. Currently if you try to watch the full intro it will freeze / crash at the following screen. This happens even if using a Quickstart A1200

It's late here, need to test more tomorrow after work...

Valken · 10 July 2018, 06:09

Thanks for the ongoing updates Damien. Enjoy your summer vacation with the ladies!

BullyDog · 10 July 2018, 14:08

Seems I got that color on the screen but no graphics then it went half black. I waited some more and realized that it's locked.

It happened twice yesterday. I got out my camera to show you this morning and the game worked. Weird. Must be my PC somehow.

Maybe a reboot is all that's needed to reset everything. I'll make a note of that. Thanks for the tip on the activity bar, very interesting. Hard drive and CD drive indeed.

DamienD · 10 July 2018, 14:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by BullyDog

Seems I got that color on the screen but no graphics then it went half black. I waited some more and realized that it's locked.

There's a slight issue with the config; it doesn't like Fast RAM so... I'll adjust this tonight and then you will see the intro graphics correctly.

...but there is currently an issue with the intro in WinUAE as detailed in post #1013

I've tried numerous settings / WinUAE versions but the same things occurs unfortunately. I need to play around more tonight once home from work but may need Toni to take a look after providing logs etc...

For now, just click the left mouse to skip the intro

BullyDog · 10 July 2018, 18:22

The mouse clicks works no problem there. All I did was fast loads. Rest are defaults.

Might be in the configs. When I had a problem with C64 Forever where this one game (Bonecruncher) had garbled graphics I tried changing configs to no avail. Then I hit reset to defaults and everything worked including this game.

I mentioned to the author that the startup defaults may not match the reset defaults after I had the problem with the game. He made updates and sent me one.

DamienD · 10 July 2018, 20:25

...so have been playing around and no matter what settings / options are set; I cannot get the "intro" in the floppy disk version to work correctly

No matter; tested the WHDLoad version and the "intro" works perfectly

...only issue, as reported in the following thread, is that only English is supported: Diggers [AGA] - WHDLoad - Languages

So, please do the following:

Delete the directory "C:\WinUAE\Games\Diggers AGA".
Download / extract the attached archive into C:\WinUAE.

ross · 10 July 2018, 21:20

Only a quick view, but I wonder how the intro of this game can work even on a real machine (probably by chance).
The 'tunnel' is generated by a series of bfset instructions indexed by a register dx.w on which the boundaries are not checked;
the writing field is less than [-32768,32767] so at the borders there may be some undesidered memory writes.
And indeed it happens: part of the ilbm images of the superimpressed titles are modified and once real-time decompressed
(since even in that case the decompressor does not control the limits..) begins to overwrite all the memory.
Great..

10 July 2018, 20:25	#1019
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Diggers [AGA] ...so have been playing around and no matter what settings / options are set; I cannot get the "intro" in the floppy disk version to work correctly No matter; tested the WHDLoad version and the "intro" works perfectly ...only issue, as reported in the following thread, is that only English is supported: Diggers [AGA] - WHDLoad - Languages So, please do the following: Delete the directory "C:\WinUAE\Games\Diggers AGA". Download / extract the attached archive into C:\WinUAE. Last edited by DamienD; 23 August 2018 at 22:00.

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08 July 2018, 11:56	#1001
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks?

08 July 2018, 18:37	#1003
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Cheers guys, it's nice comments / feedback like this that makes me very happy indeed and glad that I didn't keep the collection to myself / shared with all of you

09 July 2018, 19:56	#1005
jabybau Registered User Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Italy Posts: 130	tks Damien!!!!!

09 July 2018, 20:08	#1006
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Thanks jabybau for your support. It's custom things like this that make my collection unique and you won't find elsewhere I've been wanting to split this disk for a long time now but other things have gotten in the way... I had today off work so thought I should finally make it happen

10 July 2018, 00:53	#1008
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	What does TOSEC mean?

10 July 2018, 02:15	#1010
Dunny Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Scunthorpe/United Kingdom Posts: 1,977	TOSEC is a way to catalogue all the old games and apps. They store the checksums of disks and stuff so you can check which games you have against their database, and they also rename the files so you can see the publisher, hacks/trainers status, virus infections etc. Personally I used to hate the naming scheme but lately I've come to appreciate it.

10 July 2018, 02:27	#1011
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	I can appreciate it too as this is a learning process for me. I'm all new to Amiga and I like it. I like it a lot.

10 July 2018, 02:44	#1012
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	Damien, can you tell me what the activity bar on the bottom mean? I can see the 4 rightmost boxes as the floppy drives. What are the rest? I loaded Diggers and I can see that the two drives were active. The music played and ended but no play screen. At this point I had no clue whether I need to wait some more or did it stopped. Thanks.

10 July 2018, 06:09	#1015
Valken Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amiga Posts: 465	Thanks for the ongoing updates Damien. Enjoy your summer vacation with the ladies!

10 July 2018, 14:08	#1016
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	Seems I got that color on the screen but no graphics then it went half black. I waited some more and realized that it's locked. It happened twice yesterday. I got out my camera to show you this morning and the game worked. Weird. Must be my PC somehow. Maybe a reboot is all that's needed to reset everything. I'll make a note of that. Thanks for the tip on the activity bar, very interesting. Hard drive and CD drive indeed.

10 July 2018, 18:22	#1018
BullyDog Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Texas USA Age: 73 Posts: 184	The mouse clicks works no problem there. All I did was fast loads. Rest are defaults. Might be in the configs. When I had a problem with C64 Forever where this one game (Bonecruncher) had garbled graphics I tried changing configs to no avail. Then I hit reset to defaults and everything worked including this game. I mentioned to the author that the startup defaults may not match the reset defaults after I had the problem with the game. He made updates and sent me one.

10 July 2018, 21:20	#1020
ross Defendit numerus Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Crossing the Rubicon Age: 53 Posts: 4,468	Only a quick view, but I wonder how the intro of this game can work even on a real machine (probably by chance). The 'tunnel' is generated by a series of bfset instructions indexed by a register dx.w on which the boundaries are not checked; the writing field is less than [-32768,32767] so at the borders there may be some undesidered memory writes. And indeed it happens: part of the ilbm images of the superimpressed titles are modified and once real-time decompressed (since even in that case the decompressor does not control the limits..) begins to overwrite all the memory. Great..

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