Short: HD Installer for Project-X Special Edition V2.1a Author: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre) Uploader: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre) Type: game/patch Install-Script & HD-loader ©1996/1997 Jean-François FABRE Project-X is ©1993 Team17 Software. --- PROJECT-X SPECIAL EDITION Hard Disk Installer --- This installer requires the ORIGINAL disks from Project-X SE 93 (there are 3). It should NOT work for cracked versions or the first release of Project-X. The HD-Patched game will need about 4Mb of memory. 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. All my installers are now fixed for A3000/A4000 users (thanks Robert :-) ) 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. FEATURES: - Full HD Install of the game - Installer script provided, for more convenience - Full use of fast memory - You can access all the 5 levels at once. The choice is not limited to levels 1,2,3. - Fully 680x0 compatible without modifications (there were crashes with 68060) - A TRAINER tooltype allows you to get infinite lives. - Load/Save Hi-Scores now work with hard drive. No need for floppy - F10 key allows you to quit the game from the main menu. BUGS: There are some annoying bugs I did not succeed to remove yet: - You have to load the high scores by the LOAD SCORES option. This is not done at startup. - Do NOT use a copyback disk cache on your games partition. This could be harmful if you reboot the computer before you quit the game, if you use the SAVE SCORES option (disk buffers not updated). Anyway, if you are afraid, you can still use floppies to save your games if you set the NOOSSWAP tooltype/argument. - Sometimes the game asks for disk 2 or disk 3, or refuses to work without the NOOSSWAP tooltype. In that case, switch off and on your amiga and it will work again (a Blizzard 12x0 problem ?) CHANGES SINCE V2.1: - The crash at level 1 when you played after level 3,4,5 is removed, there were a cache setting problem in my hd-utility object code for the 68060. I think the patch is pretty complete now. If you find some other bugs, or the game crashes, please e-mail me (specify your configuration). I'm also looking for people who could send me original disks for me to patch them for 680x0 or write HD-Installers (NO WAY FOR CRACKED VERSIONS). I'd like someone to send me the original release of Project-X. It would be great if my installer supported both versions. E-mail me if you're interested, or if you simply like this installer. 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 Team 17 on your HD. Jeff ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1434 441 69.2% 26-Dec-96 15:11:08 +Install-ProjectX 1871 1017 45.6% 26-Dec-96 15:09:42 +Install-ProjectX.info 278 174 37.4% 08-Dec-96 12:40:06 +ProjectX(SpecialEdition).cheat 11488 10797 6.0% 26-Dec-96 15:15:50 +pxhd 1637 539 67.0% 26-Dec-96 15:08:38 +pxhd.info 3857 2010 47.8% 26-Dec-96 15:09:00 +pxhd.readme 5146 1622 68.4% 08-Dec-96 12:40:06 +pxhd.readme.info 8504 8150 4.1% 26-Dec-96 12:17:24 +rob2file 1238 759 38.6% 26-Dec-96 15:17:08 ProjectX.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 35453 25509 28.0% 08-Jan-97 00:59:20 9 files