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- Llamatron Update (Release #3) - by David Kinder
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- Introduction
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- One of my favourite games on the Amiga is Jeff Minters shareware release
- Llamatron, but it doesnt run under Kickstart 2.0 or higher. A bit of
- experimentation showed that it was the loader programs (LLAMA and LLAMA512)
- that were at fault. Thus I have written my own replacements.
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- Note that the main game files (TRON512 and TRON1MEG) are required but not
- included. These are in the original Llamatron distribution.
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- Use on ECS Amigas
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- Make a copy of your Llamatron disk, then replace the files LLAMA and
- LLAMA512 with the copies in the ECS directory. These loaders also run from
- Workbench, so you can start Llamatron from the included icons (taken from an
- Amiga Computing coverdisk).
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- Llamatrons initial sound sample sometimes did not play properly on my A1200.
- This has been fixed by issuing a CMD_RESET to the audio.device.
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- Use on AGA Amigas
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- On my stock A1200, I found that occasionally these loaders would corrupt the
- display. When I added a 68030 board, this corruption occured almost always.
- The reason for this is not clear, but it can be fixed using KillAGA (by
- Jolyon Ralph), so is probably related to the way Llamatron sets up its
- display.
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- In the AGA directory are Llama, KillAGA and a script Llamatron, which calls
- Llama via KillAGA. Copy all these files to wherever you keep Llamatron and
- double click on the icon. A script is not included for the 512K machine as
- all AGA Amigas have at least 2 Megabytes of memory.
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- The icons for KillAGA and Llama are not neccessary in this case; they are
- included simply to help in copying.
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- Contact
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- If you want to contact me about these loaders, send email to
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- kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
- or dkinder@physics.ox.ac.uk
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- History
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- Release #2:
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- This release corrects a problem on Amigas with the VBR set to an address
- other than 0x00000000. Thanks to Thomas Baetzler, who pointed this out
- to me.
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- Release #3:
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- Removed an Enforcer hit. Updated distribution to separate ECS and AGA
- machines.
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- Final Note
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- Support shareware! If you didnt send money to Jeff for Llamatron because it
- doesnt run on your new machine, youve no excuse now. If enough people
- support shareware we might see more games of this quality released in this
- way.
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