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- CivilizationAGA
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- There has been much talk on comp.sys.amiga.games over the past few months
- on the subject of finding ways of improving the speed of CivilizationAGA.
- This file contains information posted by David Andrew Clayton
- (dac@prolix.apana.org.au) which I found to work perfectly with my hard disk
- installed version of the game.
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- In order to perform the changes to the file you will need:
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- i) Either Powerpacker Professional or DLD (found in the VirusZ archive on
- Aminet) in order to decrunch the executable Civilization file.
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- ii) A hex file editor such as AZap, FileX etc.
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- Before we start, a quick disclaimer - I take no responsibility for any damage
- you may cause to your hard disc and the files there on it nor do I guarantee
- that the following will work. It just worked for me (and Mr Clayton presumably).
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- A) Unpack the CivilizationAGA file, perhaps taking a backup copy of it first
- just in case anything should go wrong. Use either of the above decrunchers.
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- B) Load up your file editor and load the uncrunched CivilizationAGA file.
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- C) Change the following entries:
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- To remove the screen fades (thank-you God):
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- At offset &2CCF2 change &6728 to &66B0
- At offset &2CE60 change &59466002 to &4E714E71
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- To stop the pointer annoying you with its constant blinking:
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- At offset &2D17C change &4EAEFEF2 to &4E714E71
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- To make the game run mostly from FAST RAM:
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- At offset &14 change &40 to &00
- At offset &1C change &40 to &00
- At offset &20 change &40 to &00
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- D) Save the file back, and recrunch it if you wish (and own Powerpacker Pro).
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- E) Run this file as normal by double-licking on its icon.
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- With luck everything is OK, the music is still fine and the game runs at a
- less terrifyingly slow speed (on faster machines especially). Now a game
- of Civ no longer takes a week !
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- Good luck ! Nick Ridley (nick@mentaur.demon.co.uk)
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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZPokes to make CivAGA run at a sane speed
- Find those interminable screen fades make
- you scream ? Ever wondered which fools
- programmed the game so that it ran _so_ much
- slower than the original ECS version even
- on your A4000/040 ?
- @END_FILE_ID.DIZ
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- FILE_ID edited with DIZ-Ed V2.0 by nocTurne deSign/OGN - USER: CONSTRiCTOR/BRUTAL-APPROACH
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- Short: Pokes to make CivAGA run at a sane speed
- Author: nick@mentaur.demon.co.uk, thanks to dac@prolix.apana.org.au
- Uploader: nick@mentaur.demon.co.uk
- Type: game/patch
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- Find those interminable screen fades make you scream ? Ever wondered which
- fools programmed the game so that it ran _so_ much slower than the original
- ECS version even on your A4000/040 ?
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- Ever thought of falling back onto the ECS version and sacrificing all the nice
- graphics just so that you could play a game in less than a week ?
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- This text file will help you to change the executable for the game so that a
- few inconsistencies in the code are ironed out !
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- NB You'll need a hex file editor (eg FileX) and an uncruncher capable of
- dealing with files crunched by PowerPacker Professional. DLD, found in the
- VirusZ archive on Aminet, can cope with these.
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- Nick Ridley
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