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- Short : Body Blows Galactic HD-Installer
- Type : game/patch
-
- Body Blows Galactic ECS 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 new
- generation amiga users have got a HD now so stop it please, else it will be soon more
- pleasant to play games on Pee Cees (where Team17 makes the games HD Installable) !!!!
-
- Moreover, I noticed that the disk loading routines are VERY SLOW, and you can even see
- it when it's on your HD. You sometimes have to wait for 2 or 3 seconds for some parts to
- load, and that's not my fault, because my loading routines are optimized enough !
-
- To install Body Blows Galactic on your HD, first copy the contents of the directory BBG2HD
- in the target directory, then go into this directory and double-click the Install-BBG
- icon. You'll be prompted to insert the four BBG disks and the contents of those
- disks will be copied on your HD.
-
- To play Body Blows Galactic, then, double-click the BBG icon, or type 'bbghd' in the shell
- If you've got a AGA machine, you'll have to disable the AGA chipset if you want to see
- the first Team 17 screen, although the rest of the game will have a proper display anyway.
- To do this, I use setchiprev, so click on the BBG_FIX icon instead of BBG.
-
- The game will load.
-
- Note : you must have at least 3MB 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.
-
- 512K free Chipmem should be enough to allow you to boot the game from Workbench without
- crashing the system, except if your chipmem is fragmented. Typically, I never had any
- problem with 2MB Chipmem to run the game !
- 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 BBG by :
-
- copy s:startup-sequence s:startup-sequence.backup ; backup your original startup-sequence
- copy s:bbgstartup s:startup-sequence ; copy the startup for BBG
- wait 5 ; wait for the disks to finish
- reboot ; reboot the system (or do it yourself !)
-
- and bbgstartup could contain :
-
- copy s:startup-sequence.backup s:startup-sequence ; restore your original startup-sequence
- bbghd
-
- This installer was written and tested on a A1200 68030/50 16MB RAM.
- It should work with all CPUs, even 68040, but I didn't test it.
-
- It works with the cracked version by N.O.M.A.D/Fairlight.
-
- Many Thanx to :
-
- - 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
-