Greetings Starfighters

[Angus]

DrewFX wrote:
@Angus - Hey sorry for sniping your text

No problem - and understood.  :-)

I was able to use the installer, but I suspect because I have a mediator and graphics card I don't think the rad: thing is an option. What I can usually do is run a chipset game in the normal way but output the graphics to a pci TV card on the mediator and display on screen with that. Are the graphics coded in such a way as to prevent RTG from being an option, thus avoiding the chip ram issue?

Would a technique of bypassing the intro screens and going straight to the game be viable?

I should point out that if these are daft questions its because I'm clueless about this stuff. :-)

I will keep my fingers crossed.

[DrewFX]

I think the best way to describe the graphics requirements is that if you had 2 meg chip ram and 4 meg fast ram on an A500 (with a math co-pro) it would also run.

It doesn't use AGA, it uses ECS, but it uses dpaint anims to show the animations, and streams iff's as well.

I need more people to write in and tell me their setup and how they installed it because I can only test it on my A1200.

Obviously it runs on my computer, so I will have to guess how you set it up.  I can however - while waiting for people to write in - try a few things on my 1200 and give you an accurate description of how it starts up.  I think I have a setpatch mod on disk as well, so I will research that and upload anything of use.

[Amiduffer]

Hi Andy, Andy here.

I just downloaded the game off your website but are running into problems.

I have an A3000, and have Unrar 1.2 I think. As soon as I run unrar, I get starfighter.iso unknown method and then it quits. What am I doing wrong?

[Angus]

DrewFX wrote:

Obviously it runs on my computer, so I will have to guess how you set it up.  I can however - while waiting for people to write in - try a few things on my 1200 and give you an accurate description of how it starts up.

Thanks, that sounds promising. This thread has got me really keen to get the game up and running now.  :-)

[Amiduffer]

Any reason the download fails?

[DrewFX]

@ Amiduffer The download failing is probably that the service provider may not always be online.  I have noticed some outtages from time to time.  
Regarding your download issue, it becomes an ISO which must then be mounted to become a virtual CD.  I think I might just unpack it and repack it so you can save it any way you like on an Amiga.  You will probably have to us a PC at the moment I am thinking to read the ISO format.

At the time of responding to this, my provider is down.  Try again soon.

[DrewFX]

So I've been doing a bit of research and found my source code for the RAD: device.  I will post that as soon as I can get it off the Amiga and onto PC.  I have also found a bunch of Boot Loaders.  There are several "GoForLaunch" exe which set up a RAD: device and then reboot the Amiga to load just the game.  Some don't use Setpatch, others do, and there is one to use yours.

I have also found the latest patches.  I will upload all of these in one package, with instructions on how to use it.

[Amiduffer]

DrewFX wrote:
Regarding your download issue, it becomes an ISO which must then be mounted to become a virtual CD.  I think I might just unpack it and repack it so you can save it any way you like on an Amiga.  You will probably have to us a PC at the moment I am thinking to read the ISO format.

Its downloading right now. :-)

I've never dealt with .RAR so I'm not sure what you're saying. I thought it was a packer like .LHA or .ZIP

Is there a step by step direction of how to do it?

[DrewFX]

Hmmm...  It's been zipped up using RAR on a Windows platform.  I assume the format is cross-platform.  However I can attempt to repack it using LHA.  

I have an archive (RAR) uploading now that has been unpacked and removed from the ISO format (which is a virtual cdrom format) into just Amiga files.  I've repacked it and it will be available shortly.

I will then pack using LHA for straight Amiga users.

Which is favourite format for people? LHA, LZH, ZIP or RAR?

[Amiduffer]

Never mind, I just used the office PC to unpack it. Its now on a CD. There's two folders Starfighter_Amiga_CD and Starfighter_Amiga_CD_1 both which have one file Starfighter.iso in each.

What do I do now?

[DrewFX]

Hmm not sure how you got it that way.  Have you got Daemon Tools or Nero Image drive?  You will need them to connect to the ISO to read the contents.  If you can wait about 10mins I'm uploading the LHA archive which is easier to use.

[DrewFX]

Okay here's the new LHA file - which should work natively on the Amiga.  At any rate, it unpacks to folders, not an ISO

Star.lha

I'll upload all the patches in about 8 hours.

[AmigaMance]

I have an A3000, and have Unrar 1.2 I think. As soon as I run unrar, I get starfighter.iso unknown method and then it quits. What am I doing wrong?

 Ok, your have overcome this problem, but keep in mind that this happened because you are using a very old version of unrar.
 Dearchiving RARs using an Amiga is not a big problem. You need a LOT of free memory, though and a recent version of unrar:
http://amiga.sourceforge.net/phps/logger.php?download=UnRAR-3.60.lha


@DrewFX
 Thanks man!  :-)

[DrewFX]

@AmigaMance - thanks for solving that.

Now for everyone here's the Instructions on patching...
Instructions

Here's the first patch...
Patch 1
...which updates some missions.

...and here's the final patch which has all the RAD: launchers.
Final PatchPatch 1

Good luck and tell me how you went.

Some of these were packed using this Windows program which I am hoping is Amiga compatible - same compression is used for the Star.lha I recently posted.
Windows LHA

[DrewFX]

So now there are 3 people on ebay selling my game.  I think this is real sucky.

Ebayer 1

Ebayer 2

Ebayer 3

[rkauer]

 You always have a choice to declare those nasty guys as pirates to Ebay.

 As the intelectual owner, this is your right. Simply explain to Ebay the situation.