home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Short : Alien Breed II AGA HD-Installer
- Type : game/patch
-
- Alien Breed II AGA From Team 17 HD Installer. Written in August 1995 by JOTD.
-
- Some people complain about the fact that Team 17 games, although excellent, are NEVER
- HD installable because it's easier to crack. That's a stupid policy because the game
- will be cracked anyway by expert persons. The other reason is that Amiga users do not
- own hard disks and with trackloading it is faster than even FFS. But most of the 1200
- users have got a HD now so stop it please !
-
- To install Alien Breed II AGA on your HD, first copy the contents of the directory AB2HD
- in the target directory, then go into this directory and double-click the Install-AB2
- icon. You'll be prompted to insert the four AB2 disks and the contents of those
- disks will be copied on your HD.
-
- To play Alien Breed II, then, double-click the AB2 icon, or type 'ahd' in the shell
-
- The game will load.
-
- Note : you must have at least 4MB of fast RAM, and it is not guaranteed it will work
- if your memory is fragmented. Please do many tries but I ensure it works (not like
- the other installer for this game that I never managed to use). Anyway, the executable
- file ahd uses sytem-friendly disks reads and memory allocation, so does not the game !
- That's why it can fuck sometimes. But when this happens, it fucks in the first seconds
- and if the "Accessing Disk" message appears, you can be sure that the game will work OK.
- Generally, if the game doesn't boot, you may not have enough chipmem, so boot with no
- startup-sequence, and run the game.
- You can also replace the iconx script I wrote in AB2 by :
-
- copy s:startup-sequence s:startup-sequence.backup ; backup your original startup-sequence
- copy s:alienbreedstartup s:startup-sequence ; copy the startup for ABII
- wait 5 ; wait for the disks to finish
- reboot ; reboot the system (or do it yourself !)
-
- and alienbreedstartup could contain :
-
- copy s:startup-sequence.backup s:startup-sequence ; restore your original startup-sequence
- ahd
-
- This installer was written and tested on a A1200 68030/50 16MB RAM.
-
- It works with the cracked version by N.O.M.A.D.
-
- Many Thanx to :
-
- - N.O.M.A.D for his crack of AB2 without which I couldn't write this installer
- (I ain't got any ICE or Action Replay for A1200, so I do it by hand, and his
- crack helped me to understand some routines), and for TUDE, The Ultimate
- Degrader/Enhancer, which is not perfect but is of great help with some
- badly programmed games.
-
- - Frank Wille for PhxAss 4.18, a really cool assembler
-
- - Martin Apel for ADis V1.3
-
- - Nicola Salmoria for HexEd, a really cool Hex editor.
-
- - Team 17 for their great games (I bought many original versions from them :
- Body Blows, Project X Special Edition, Assassin, QWAK, Overdrive, Alien Breed
- Special Edition).
-
- Have fun with this cool game (even cooler on HD !)
-
- JOTD'95
-