Revenge Of The Mutant Camels II WHDLoad Pack

README

 THIS PACKAGE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO USE, RESULTS AND
 PERFORMANCE OF THE PACKAGE IS ASSUMED BY YOU AND IF THE PACKAGE SHOULD PROVE
 TO BE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
 REPAIR OR OTHER REMEDIATION.
 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, CAN THE AUTHOR BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE
 CAUSED IN ANY USUAL, SPECIAL, OR ACCIDENTAL WAY, ALSO IF THE OWNER OR A THIRD
 PARTY HAS BEEN POINTED AT SUCH POSSIBILITIES OF DAMAGE.

 This install applies to "Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2" © 1988 Mastertronic.

 Requirements:
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 This install requires WHDLoad and RawDIC to be in the path.
 To install from a different drive than DF0: select installation mode Expert.

 The installed game requires 0.5 MB ChipMem (+0.3 MB OtherMem for preload).
 It can be quit by pressing F10 (key can be changed with Tooltype "QuitKey=").


 Features:
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 - Full load from HD
 - Protection removed (encrypted disk format, track check)
 - OS stuff patched (AllocMem, Open/Read/Close etc.)
 - Timing fixed
 - Read from color register fixed
 - Copperlist trashing fixed
 - DMA wait in replayer fixed
 - Bplcon0 color bit fixes (x3)
 - CPU dependent delay in text writer fixed
 - NewIcon (created by me)
 - Source code included as usual
 - Quit option that works on 68000 machines (default key is 'F10')


 When I arrived at work this morning I checked The Zone on EAB and found
 this game uploaded there. Had a quick look and it was interesting enough
 to create a patch. The disk format is standard Amiga DOS but each block
 is encrypted, the patches for the DoIO and other OS calls are installed
 in the bootblock in a quite nice TVD-like fashion. However, as interesting
 as the disk format is as simple it was to defeat as it's clear that the
 data is loaded using standard Amiga-OS system calls.
 Creating the RawDIC imager was quickly done and patching the game didn't
 take that long either, there were quite a few bugs to correct though!

 Worst one is the copperlist trashing, coder stored the pointer to replayer
 binary but only allocated a word for it which in turn meant the first word
 of the copperlist was destroyed. Talk about lame code... This has been
 fixed of course!

 There are some strange bugs in the replayer, after spending quite some hours
 to find the reason without any success I decided to release the patch as is!
 The sound problems even occur on a standard 68000 Amiga so something must
 be seriously broken. Should I find the reason I'll update the patch.


 A funny thing concerning the protection was the actual protection track check,
 it was performed in a fake "stack" command, very lame indeed (something similar
 was done in the TV Sports Football "protection"). 

 Anyway, enjoy the game from HD, it's not exactly great in my opinion which is
 why I didn't bother to add any trainers at all.

 Thanks to Nujack for the disk image!

 Sting, 04-Jan-2016


 Greetings to all in Scarab and Scoopex, the WHDLoad team, PMC,
 Musashi5150, Skan, Slummy, Loaderror, Frequent, Wayne Kerr, Mr.Spiv,
 Alpha One, CFou!, Paradroid, Audiomonster, Vention, Slammer
 Axis, Tim, Triace, Britelite, Buzzer and all the other usual suspects. :)

 Special greetings to all Golf MK1 fans worldwide and all classic
 car owners/drivers. :)

 Extra greetings to the usual suspects on #amigascne, see you all at
 Revision 2016! :)


 History:
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 version 1.01 (08.01.2016)
 - NTSC support added
 
 version 1.00 (04.01.2016) done by StingRay:
 - initial release
 - source code included



 Contact:
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 If you have problems with this installation please try and get a newer
 version of this package from the WHDLoad WWW-Page. If that doesn't help try
 some Tooltypes like NOCACHE, NOAUTOVEC, EXPCHIP, NOMMU, PAL or NTSC. If
 that also fails, please inform the author via the Bug-Report-Form which
 can be accessed on the WHDLoad WWW-Page.

 For the full WHDLoad package, other installs and updates refer to:
	http://www.whdload.de/
 or	aminet:dev/misc/whdload#?
 and	aminet:game/patch/