THIS PACKAGE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO USE, RESULTS AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE PACKAGE IS ASSUMED BY YOU AND IF THE PACKAGE SHOULD PROVE
TO BE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR OTHER REMEDIATION.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, CAN THE AUTHOR BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE
CAUSED IN ANY USUAL, SPECIAL, OR ACCIDENTAL WAY, ALSO IF THE OWNER OR A THIRD
PARTY HAS BEEN POINTED AT SUCH POSSIBILITIES OF DAMAGE.
This install applies to "Miami Vice Theme" © 1987 Swiss Cracking Association.
Requirements:
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This install requires WHDLoad to be in the path.
It can be found in the WHDLoad package.
To install from a different drive than DF0: select installation mode Expert.
The installed demo requires 512k ChipMem (+3.5 MB OtherMem for preload).
It can be quit by pressing F10 (key can be changed with Tooltype "QuitKey=").
Features:
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- Full load from HD
- OS stuff patched
- Interrupt fixed for 68040/60
- Custom1 can be used to loop the demo
- Reset at end patched to quit demo
- Power LED/Lowpass filter toggling disabled
- NewIcon (created by me, if you have better icons feel free to send them)
- Source included
- Quit option that works on 68000 machines (default key is 'F10')
"And now for my next number I'd like to return to the classics"
This is indeed a classic, released by SCA in April 1987.
This patch was requested yesterday by Retroplay on EAB and rightly
so because this demo has a very small yet very annoying problem.
See below.
I'm quite surprised how clean the code actually is, especially considered
the release date and that SCA originally was a C64 group. Most C64
coders that changed to Amiga used all sorts of tricks such as
self-modifying code, direct ROM jumps etc. that were useful and perfectly
fine on 6502/10 CPU's on the Amiga too. You know, old habits rarely change.
Only problem: on Amiga these tricks were mostly causing more harm than
good and most of the time they were completely unnecessary anyway.
SCA did quite a good job here, very clean code that had only one major
flaw: the LED was toggled constantly, no problem on old A1000's that
don't have a lowpass filter, on all other machines it completely spoils
the demo. I have of course fixed this so you can now enjoy the sound
the way it was meant to be enjoyed.
I also think that the 4th disk is broken, the file is too short!
Each big data file contains the mumber of chunks in the first word,
for part1 this value is 24 which means the file size is 24*32768+2
bytes. If you check the sound1 file in the data directory you'll see
that it has exactly that size: 786434 bytes.
For disk 4 this value is 19 so the sound4 file should be 622594
bytes long, however it only has a size of 504104 bytes which makes
me believe that the file is incomplete.
Originally, the demo would load 2 bytes from each data file to get
the number of chunks and then it would stream the data. I have
changed that, in this patch the demo reads these values from an
internal table which results in less OS swaps.
I also added an option to loop the demo, use Custom1=1 to enable it.
If you don't enable the loop feature the demo will simply quit at
the end (the original code would simply reset the Amiga).
Enjoy this classic from HD now. More patches for real classic
demos will follow soon!
You can download the demo here:
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/S/SCA/SCA-MiamiViceA.adf
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/S/SCA/SCA-MiamiViceB.adf
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/S/SCA/SCA-MiamiViceC.adf
ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/S/SCA/SCA-MiamiViceD.adf
Update 17.11.2015:
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Retroplay has provided a working disk 4 image so the workaround for the
broken file on disk 4 has been removed! I have uploaded the working disk
images to the Amigascne FTP, see the links above.
I have also updated the patch to use WHDLoad v17+ features which means
the loop mode can now be enabled in WHDLoad's splash window.
Happy New Year,
Sting, 08-Jan-2012.
Greetings to all in Scarab and Scoopex, the WHDLoad team, PMC,
Musashi5150, Skan, Slummy, Loaderror, Frequent, Wayne Kerr, Mr.Spiv
and all the other usual suspects. :)
Extra greetings to the usual suspects on #amigascne, see you all at
Revision 2012! :)
History:
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version 1.02 (17.11.2015)
- workaround for broken disk 4 removed as Retroplay provided a
working disk 4 image
- WHDLoad v17+ features (config) used so the Loop mode can be easily
enabled in WHDLoad's splash window
version 1.01 (08.01.2012) done by StingRay:
- access fault fixed, thanks to nujack for reporting
- volume problems fixed
- file loader corrected, skips first 2 bytes now
version 1.0 (07.01.2012) done by StingRay:
- initial release
- source code included
Contact:
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If you have problems with this installation please try and get a newer
version of this package from the WHDLoad WWW-Page. If that doesn't help try
some Tooltypes like NOCACHE, NOAUTOVEC, EXPCHIP, NOMMU, PAL or NTSC. If
that also fails, please inform the author via the Bug-Report-Form which
can be accessed on the WHDLoad WWW-Page.
For the full WHDLoad package, other installs and updates refer to:
http://www.whdload.de/
or aminet:dev/misc/whdload#?
and aminet:game/patch/ |