Short: Assassin HD-Installer V1.1a Author: Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@ensica.fr) Uploader: Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@ensica.fr) Type: game/patch Install-Script & HD-loader © 1996/1997 Jean-François FABRE Assassin is ©1992 Team17 Software. To install Assassin on your HD, first copy the directory 'Assassin' whereever you want, then go into this directory and double-click the Install-Assassin icon. You'll be prompted to insert the original Assassin disks and the contents of those disks will be copied on your HD. To play Assassin, then, double-click the AssassinHD icon. The game will load. Features: - Full loading of the game from HD - Convenient installer script - No more crashes like V1.0 - Small bugfix from V1.1 - Original in-game keys activated (levelskip, weapons) - Trainer tooltype: infinte energy and infinite lives - Load/Save highscores from hard disk - Possible quit with F10 key - Removes copy-protection check - Now uses FastMemory, in a clean way (AllocMem) Note: Be careful not using copyback disk caches on your game partition, because of the in-game high-score saving routine. If the screen remains black and the drive led stays lit, press the F10 key and the game will quit without harm. Do not reset in that case, because you could damage your hard-disk structure (but exactly as if you reset during a file copy in the workbench...) I use a write-through disk cache with this program and everything runs fine. Original in-game keys: '1-6'___________Go to corresponding level with infinite energy. 'W'_____________________Gives you maximum weapon configuration (not the boomerangs) 'E'____________Takes you straight to the end of level guardian. 'C'__________________________________Grants infinite continues. The "ACEVIEWFROMUPHEREMATE" cheat is useless here. Moreover, this cheat gave you infinite energy with in-game keys. I thought it was better to set infinite energy only with the trainer mode. So you can try the different levels in real conditions. The original trainer did not enable infinite lives neither, that could be annoying when you fall on spikes or electrical wires. I added this feature too (maybe it's useless with infinite continues). On the high score table, enter one of the following: "ASSASSIN", "THE ONE THE ONLY", "SUPERFROG", "ALIEN BREED", "PROJECT X", "PSIONIC SYSTEMS". Enter "MIDAN" to continue from where you left off. The highscore table is not updated at once when you load the scores. You have to play first (like in the original. That's a bug...) The LOAD HIGH SCORE option is useless as my program loads them just before the introduction. But it works... MEMORY: You must have at least 3MB of ram to run AssassinHD Disk images: 2MB Program memory: 512K chip + 512K other mem Quit option: 512K chip E.g: you cannot quit or save/load highscores with only 3MB but you can do it from 4MB. If you get crashes at the assassin picture (just before the speech), try to activate the NOOSSWAP tooltype/argument. The highscore load/save will be disabled, but the crash can disappear. This installer was written and tested on a A1200/060/50/16Mb RAM. It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs (up to '060). Report me any bugs you'll find. Note: I created and tested this package with a A1200/060/50 16Mb, so there should be no problems for all 680x0 CPUs (caches,chipset...). It degrades display properly so Multiscan users won't have any sprite or screen problem. Have fun with this cool game (even cooler on HD !) Jeff ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 773 406 47.4% 08-Dec-96 12:40:00 +Assassin.cheat 7524 7158 4.8% 05-Jan-97 20:26:16 +AssassinHD 753 475 36.9% 05-Jan-97 20:20:12 +AssassinHD.info 3520 1820 48.2% 05-Jan-97 20:21:04 +asshd.readme 5146 1623 68.4% 05-Jan-97 20:20:04 +asshd.readme.info 6676 6376 4.4% 26-Dec-96 12:20:04 +disk2file 1185 426 64.0% 05-Jan-97 20:23:08 +Install-Assassin 1870 1016 45.6% 05-Jan-97 20:22:04 +Install-Assassin.info 2278 563 75.2% 05-Jan-97 20:20:04 Assassin.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 29725 19863 33.1% 07-Jan-97 23:42:32 9 files