Short: HD Installer for Mortal Kombat V1.4a Author: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre) Type: game/patch Install-Script & HD-loader © 1996/1997 Jean-François FABRE Mortal Kombat is ©1993 Akklaim. --- MORTAL KOMBAT Hard Disk Installer --- This installer requires the ORIGINAL disks from Mortal Kombat (there are 2). The HD-Patched game will need about 2Mb of FAST memory and 1 or 2Mb more for the game itself, which makes 3Mb a minimum, but (almost) any HD owner has got 3Mb. You also need 1MB of chipmem to run the game. Sorry but this game does not like 32bit fastmem AT ALL. If you need a 512K chip version, just let me know. It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs. Report me any bugs you'll find. When the disks are copied during installation, the pointer freezes. That's normal cause the game uses a custom trackload routine (copy-protection), and it does not easily multitask. No checks are done to see if you swapped the disks or not (the disk structure is very similar between the 2 disks). HISTORY: V1.0: This version did not take advantage of the allowed cpu caches properly and did not disable specific '060 caches. Besides, it sometimes exited with no reason, without doing anything, or loaded and locked up. There were graphics corruption for one of the players. V1.1: Bugs were corrected except for the gfx corruption V1.2: The gfx bug was finally removed. Works (almost) perfectly :-) I added a small guide for special moves and fatalities. V1.3: Startup code improvement. Crashes less often. V1.4: New memory management. F10 quits the game at any time. Needs 1MB of chipmem. I think it's the final version. V1.4a: I was wrong when I thought it was the final version. It simply did not work. I re-linked it with my new startup code, and made a few modifications, and now it works perfectly. Sorry for V1.4 users. I also changed the installation system. Now it uses a command I wrote (rob2file) and an installer script. Much more flexible and user-friendly. CHEATMODE: Type CATHULU in the menu to get a cheat mode menu. DISCLAIMER: I'm not responsible for any damage caused directly or indirectly by this piece of software. DISTRIBUTION: This patch can be distributed freely, but I'd appreciate that you drop me a line if you include it in a coverdisk or PD collection. However, FFD (France Festival Distribution) is not allowed to include it in any of its PD disks (if you read usenet in fr.comp.sys.amiga, you'll know why). It's the only exception for the distribution. ME: Visit my patch page, where all my HD work is gathered, along with some other quality installers (all for original software), and some other interesting freeware stuff: http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/patches.html And my home page (totally stupid stuff): http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/ (english) http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/index_fr.html (french) E-mail: jffabre@ensica.fr Enjoy this great game from HD (too bad there is no AGA version :-( ) Jeff ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1173 423 63.9% 25-Dec-96 20:18:48 +Install-MK 1875 1019 45.6% 26-Dec-96 11:58:18 +Install-MK.info 10868 10428 4.0% 26-Dec-96 11:57:16 +mkhd 1413 813 42.4% 26-Dec-96 11:58:18 +mkhd.info 2977 1612 45.8% 26-Dec-96 12:02:20 +mkhd.readme 5146 1621 68.4% 26-Dec-96 11:58:18 +mkhd.readme.info 1489 484 67.4% 26-Dec-96 12:15:18 +Moves.readme 5169 1646 68.1% 26-Dec-96 11:58:18 +Moves.readme.info 8504 8150 4.1% 26-Dec-96 12:17:24 +rob2file 1238 744 39.9% 26-Dec-96 15:07:46 MortalKombat.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 39852 26940 32.3% 08-Jan-97 00:03:34 10 files