Evil's Doom - Page 3

DamienD · 23 September 2019, 20:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

You don't need to access a dungeon to save the game. You can try this right out from start (but oddly, the game will ask you to choose a character before as this is in the "camp" option).

It might be something to do with the save dir. Maybe it doesn't work when empty, i'll do more tests.

Using a WB 3.1 .HDF with "68030 / AGA / KS 3.1 / 2MB Chip & 4MB Fast".

"RealSave" directory is exactly the same as in the archive:

Tried deleting everything under "RealSave" but then the game crashes before starting.

If you want to take a look at my self-booting / bare bones .HDF to see if you can work out the issue is then grab it from here: Evil's Doom AGA HDF.rar

meynaf · 23 September 2019, 20:54

You must have a "DIR" file in sub-dir "SAVE". Do you have it ?
There must also be several single-letter dirs in here.

DamienD · 23 September 2019, 20:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

You must have a "DIR" file in sub-dir "SAVE". Do you have it ?
There must also be several single-letter dirs in here.

Yes, here's another screenshot

Also as mentioned, the "RealSave" folder contains everything that in the archive.

Muadib · 23 September 2019, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

The game doesn't crash ? What was that "HALT3" indicated by winuae then ?

Sorry, the HALT3 is on UAE, yet the 'non-crashing' behaviour I mentioned above is on my real A1200.

meynaf · 23 September 2019, 21:05

Got it ! HALT3 !
So no, i doubt everything present in the archive is in your game.
At least, not the empty directories. There must be one per save slot. Be sure you use the relevant options when extracting the game somewhere !

meynaf · 23 September 2019, 21:12

Ok, to be more precise, you have to create single-letter dirs from A to P.
Dir Y is already here and seems to contain original game state. It MUST be here and contain its normal files otherwise the game doesn't start.
In my version there was an empty X dir but it doesn't seem necessary.

DamienD · 23 September 2019, 21:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

So no, i doubt everything present in the archive is in your game.
At least, not the empty directories. There must be one per save slot. Be sure you use the relevant options when extracting the game somewhere !

Is this a comment directed to me?

It's been quite sometime since I created this .HDF... definitely extracted the contents from an archive; possibly this "Here's v1.9 with Meynaf patch" or one by "dlfrsilver" in WinUAE.

Do you have another archive or is the above yours?

Edit: just seen your new post... Can you please provide "your" archive my friend?

DamienD · 23 September 2019, 21:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

Ok, to be more precise, you have to create single-letter dirs from A to P.

Ok, created empty "dirs from A to P" fixes this. Thank you

...but I now don't trust the archive that I used originally.

Would be great if you could post your original v1.9 archive somewhere meynaf

Muadib · 23 September 2019, 21:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

Ok, to be more precise, you have to create single-letter dirs from A to P.

So you mean that the SAVE dir must have 16 empty directories, aside from Y and the 'dir' file?

Muadib · 23 September 2019, 21:39

YES! BY CROM, IT WORKED!
Thank you, Meynaf!

Then the archives should be updated or they are omitted by the decompressor somehow...

meynaf · 23 September 2019, 21:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Is this a comment directed to me?

Not in particular. But someone must have made a mistake some day...

(And it can't be me

)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

It's been quite sometime since I created this .HDF... definitely extracted the contents from an archive; possibly this "Here's v1.9 with Meynaf patch" or one by "dlfrsilver" in WinUAE.

Do you have another archive or is the above yours?

It's certainly not mine. I don't archive Amiga stuff in ZIP format.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Edit: just seen your new post... Can you please provide "your" archive my friend?

I don't seem to have an archive anymore. I could remake one i guess, but as you know how to fix the problem it does not seem necessary.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ok, created empty "dirs from A to P" fixes this. Thank you

...but I now don't trust the archive that I used originally.

Would be great if you could post your original v1.9 archive somewhere meynaf

It's just some archiver which removed empty dirs. Nothing to worry about, just redo some archive and verify everything is there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muadib

So you mean that the SAVE dir must have 16 empty directories, aside from Y and the 'dir' file?

Yes, exactly.
One empty directory per letter, which gives one directory per save slot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muadib

YES! BY CROM, IT WORKED!
Thank you, Meynaf!

Then the archives should be updated or they are omitted by the decompressor somehow...

The decompressor, or the compressor, i don't remember which one must have the option. Perhaps both.

DamienD · 23 September 2019, 21:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by meynaf

Not in particular. But someone must have made a mistake some day...

(And it can't be me

)

It's certainly not mine. I don't archive Amiga stuff in ZIP format.

It's just some archiver which removed empty dirs. Nothing to worry about, just redo some archive and verify everything is there.

Well, I too would never make .ZIP file archives for Amiga games

...it's was dlfrsilver who made this

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muadib

Then the archives should be updated or they are omitted by the decompressor somehow...

Already on it!!!

dlfrsilver · 23 September 2019, 23:01

Ok, my bad :/ I should have used LHA then.

Strange

DamienD · 24 September 2019, 00:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muadib

Then the archives should be updated or they are omitted by the decompressor somehow...

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Already on it!!!

Sorry for the delay, but if you're going to do a job you might as well do it properly

The following has now been done; using dlfrsilver's "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" as a base:

Created a new folder named "EvilsDoom" that also has an icon file.
Extracted everything from under the "Evilsdoom" folder from the archive "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" --> the new folder "EvilsDoom".
Created folders "A - P" under the folder "EvilsDoom/RealSave/SAVES".
From a shell, changed into the new folder "EvilsDoom" and ran "protect all #? +rwed".
Created icons for "EvilsDoomFAQ.txt" and "GameKeys.ReadMe".
Organised the location of "EvilsDoom" folder; selected "Show --> Only Icons", arranged the icons in the folder nicely and then finally took a "Snapshot":
LHA'd everything up.

Have now deleted the old archive "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" and reuploaded the new one; grab from here

hexaae · 24 September 2019, 09:25

There is no WHDLoad for the full game (can't quit back to WB)? Only the Demo ATM?

DamienD · 24 September 2019, 12:13

Not everything needs to be WHDLoad... the full game works fine on many different OSs and setups.

Ok, so you can't quit to WB. Big deal.

If you really want this as a WHDLoad slave then I guess you'll need to log a request on Mantis or something.

hexaae · 24 September 2019, 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Not everything needs to be WHDLoad... the full game works fine on many different OSs and setups.

Ok, so you can't quit to WB. Big deal.

If you really want this as a WHDLoad slave then I guess you'll need to log a request on Mantis or something.

Yeah it's annoying having to reset the Amiga for me, and the game on fast systems with gfx cards has also issues initializing screen mode and with too much hi-res laced flickering… A WHDLoad would be definitely better.
I'll open a ticket on WHDLoad Mantis

Muadib · 25 September 2019, 12:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Sorry for the delay, but if you're going to do a job you might as well do it properly

The following has now been done; using dlfrsilver's "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" as a base:

Created a new folder named "EvilsDoom" that also has an icon file.
Extracted everything from under the "Evilsdoom" folder from the archive "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" --> the new folder "EvilsDoom".
Created folders "A - P" under the folder "EvilsDoom/RealSave/SAVES".
From a shell, changed into the new folder "EvilsDoom" and ran "protect all #? +rwed".
Created icons for "EvilsDoomFAQ.txt" and "GameKeys.ReadMe".
Organised the location of "EvilsDoom" folder; selected "Show --> Only Icons", arranged the icons in the folder nicely and then finally took a "Snapshot":
LHA'd everything up.

Have now deleted the old archive "Evilsdoom [Evil doom v1.9 packaged].zip" and reuploaded the new one; grab from here

Great work, thanks Damien!

Solo Kazuki · 25 September 2019, 12:47

There is one more ZIPped version of Evil's Doom here, should be also deleted to not made mess in future.

DamienD · 25 September 2019, 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solo Kazuki

There is one more ZIPped version of Evil's Doom here, should be also deleted to not made mess in future.

Thanks Solo Kazuki; will remove from the "EAB File Server" when home tonight

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23 September 2019, 20:54	#42
meynaf son of 68k Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lyon / France Age: 51 Posts: 5,323	You must have a "DIR" file in sub-dir "SAVE". Do you have it ? There must also be several single-letter dirs in here.

23 September 2019, 21:05	#45
meynaf son of 68k Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lyon / France Age: 51 Posts: 5,323	Got it ! HALT3 ! So no, i doubt everything present in the archive is in your game. At least, not the empty directories. There must be one per save slot. Be sure you use the relevant options when extracting the game somewhere !

23 September 2019, 21:12	#46
meynaf son of 68k Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lyon / France Age: 51 Posts: 5,323	Ok, to be more precise, you have to create single-letter dirs from A to P. Dir Y is already here and seems to contain original game state. It MUST be here and contain its normal files otherwise the game doesn't start. In my version there was an empty X dir but it doesn't seem necessary.

23 September 2019, 21:39	#50
Muadib Registered User Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Stockholm/Sweden Posts: 285	YES! BY CROM, IT WORKED! Thank you, Meynaf! Then the archives should be updated or they are omitted by the decompressor somehow...

23 September 2019, 23:01	#53
dlfrsilver CaptainM68K-SPS France Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melun nearby Paris/France Age: 46 Posts: 10,412	Ok, my bad :/ I should have used LHA then. Strange

24 September 2019, 09:25	#55
hexaae Bug hunter Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Italy Age: 48 Posts: 2,161	There is no WHDLoad for the full game (can't quit back to WB)? Only the Demo ATM?

24 September 2019, 12:13	#56
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Not everything needs to be WHDLoad... the full game works fine on many different OSs and setups. Ok, so you can't quit to WB. Big deal. If you really want this as a WHDLoad slave then I guess you'll need to log a request on Mantis or something.

25 September 2019, 12:47	#59
Solo Kazuki Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Poland Posts: 1,301	There is one more ZIPped version of Evil's Doom here, should be also deleted to not made mess in future.

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