Dylan Dog 12: Il Lungo Addio WHDLoad Pack

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Short : HD Installer for Dylan Dog 12: Il Lungo Addio
Author: DJ Mike (djmike@crystalmike.com)
Version: 1.0
Type: game/patch
Requires: WHDLoad 19, 448k chip mem, 192k any mem

This patch applies to "Dylan Dog 12: Il Lungo Addio" © 1993 Simulmondo.

Supports the original release. (SPS #2907)

REQUIREMENTS

- Original disk or compatible disk image
- Slave requires WHDLoad 19+
- Game requires 448k chip memory, plus 192k any memory
  (+ approx 315k other memory for preload option)

FEATURES

- Game loads fully from HD
- Quit game at any time (default key F10), including on 68000 machines
- Progress can be saved and loaded (press S to save, L to load)
  - Can copy existing disk save from "DD12/FIL/lzr" to "data/FIL/lzr"
- OS calls removed (no Kickstart ROM required)
- CPU-dependent loops fixed
- Empty copperlist fixed
- Fixed byte write to audXvol register (missing notes in music)
- Trainers added - set CUSTOM1 with any of the following:
  + 1 for infinite ammo
  + 2 for infinite falls through gaps
- Color/New/Rom Icons included
- Source code included

HISTORY

Version 1.0 (2025-07-24)
- Initial release

WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR

This episode marked a conspicuous drop in this series' quality on the Amiga.
Supposedly, the lead programmer left at some point over the year these were
being made, and it shows!

To be honest it's hard to call this a game at all. There are no cutscenes,
therefore no story - just a bunch of rooms stitched together with some basic
artwork. It took me time to realise that all you have to do is find switches
to activate in order to progress further. That's it.

There is a vague attempt to prompt you where to go, with an apparition of a
woman that sometimes appears. But even that doesn't help later when you are
running through caves wondering where the next switch is. Eventually you
find a long train, and running to the end of it triggers the ending screen,
but with zero explanation of what any of it meant. So it seems that as of
this point, the game is nothing more than switch puzzles and running about
until you find the exit. What a disappointment!

This is also completely different from the PC counterpart it was released
with (that does have the series' traditional story structure). This makes me
think the PC version became the sole focus, with the Amiga rushed in as an
afterthought just so it still featured on the magazine.

I'm supporting these remaining episodes for the sake of completeness and
posterity, but I'd be remiss if I didn't warn you that you won't find much
worth bothering with in these remaining entries.

Greetings and thanks to Torti for continued testing and support, as well as
the folks on the EAB forums.

Enjoy... er, maybe? :-)

--- DJ Mike (24th July 2025)

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