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- INTRODUCTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Are you disappointed by the tiny amount of CD32 non volatile RAM -- NVRAM
- for short -- available to save your cool high scores?
-
- Are you supposed to delete your "Pinball Fantasies" high score to save a
- single game (sigh!) from "Simon The Sorcerer" or "Liberation"?
-
- Well, I do and so I've spent a couple of afternoons coding two Shell
- commands aptly named DumpNVRAM and RestoreNVRAM: Guess what they are
- for! ;-)
-
-
-
- WHAT DO YOU NEED
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- But I'm getting ahead of myself, so let me tell you what do you need if
- you'd like to giv'em a try:
-
- a bootable, reset proof CD32 and the SX-1;
-
- or:
-
- a bootable, reset proof CD32 networked to any other Amiga;
-
- and:
-
- a keyboard (either real or "faked") to type commands from;
-
-
-
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- HOW TO SAVE AND RESTORE NVRAM CONTENTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- It's just a matter of making DumpNVRAM and RestoreNVRAM available on the
- CD32, so you'll have to copy them to a floppy, hard disk or RAM:. Once
- they are in the CD32 search path, they are completely yours -- Well, for
- your own use and enjoyment, that is! ;-)
-
- WARNING!!! These commands are Shell only! In other words, you *CAN'T*
- attach an icon to them and double-click'em from the Workbench! If you
- do, you're really asking for troubles (i.e., a System Failure)!
-
- DumpNVRAM <outfile>
-
- Scans the NVRAM contents and if it finds one or more saved games, asks
- which one you want to copy to <outfile>.
-
-
- RestoreNVRAM <infile>
-
- Reads the file <infile> (created by DumpNVRAM) and asks which saved
- game you want to restore to NVRAM.
- Note: make sure to unlock any locked saved games first!
-
-
-
- LEGAL STATUS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- DumpNVRAM and RestoreNVRAM are Copyright © 1994-1995 Werther 'Mircko'
- Pirani but are Freely Distributable as long as the banners with the
- copyright notice are left intact and no money is asked for their
- distribution, except for the usual small fee to recover media and
- distribution costs. Briefly, the usual distribution guidelines for
- Freely Distributable software apply.
-
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- DumpNVRAM and RestoreNVRAM were coded using SAS C 6.51 and the 3.1 NDK,
- so I'd say they are 100% OS compliant. Although they're definitely small
- (i.e., not bloated like many assembly coders still believe) I didn't use
- any dirty trick to cut down their size.
-
- However, to put it simply, this software is provided "AS IS" and you are
- using it at your own risk, OK? ;-)
-
-
-
-
- FEEDBACK
- ~~~~~~~~
- I know, a lot more could have been done and a gadtools based GUI would be
- nice, for instance. Not only it would be a lot more user friendly, but it
- could be used as well to lock/unlock/delete saved games.
-
- Do you think it would be really worthwile to put more effort in it? Just
- drop me a line and, if I see there's enough people interested, I'll start
- coding right away! ;-)
-
-
- e-mail:
-
- werther@karunko.nervous.com
-
-
- Snail Mail:
-
- Werther 'Mircko' Pirani
- Via Mario Torresi, 74
- 60128 Ancona
- Italy
-