Magnatron WHDLoad Pack

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Short:    HD Installer for Magnatron
Author:   DJ Mike (djmike@crystalmike.com)
Uploader: DJ Mike (djmike@crystalmike.com)
Version:  1.3
Type:     game/patch
Requires: WHDLoad 15, RawDIC 5, 480k chip mem

This patch applies to "Magnatron" © BSP Design.

NOTE: If upgrading from v1.0-v1.2, you must reinstall the game.

REQUIREMENTS:
- Install requires RawDIC 5
- Slave requires WHDLoad V17+.
- Game requires 480k chip mem (+749k other memory for preload option)

FEATURES:
- Loads fully from HD 
- Uses real files, which can be compressed with Propack/CrunchMania/FImp/XPK
- Quit to Workbench at any time (default key F10)
- OS calls removed
- Empty DBF loops corrected
- Blitter waits inserted (x5)
- Illegal accesses removed (thanks for the alert CodeTapper!)
- Music player fixed for 060 machines (byte write to audio registers)
- Sound effects fixed on very fast machines
- Stack moved to fast memory if available
- Trainers added - set CUSTOM1 with any the following:
  + 1 for infinite health
  + 2 for infinite weapon
- Skip through all intro screens with joystick fire button
- Skip intro on startup with CUSTOM2=1 (or hold fire button when starting)
- OS35/NewIcon by myself, MagicWB icon by Akira
- Source code included

HISTORY:
Version 1.3 (01.12.2025)
- RawDIC used to install as real files (requires reinstall)
- Extra button skips added to title logos
- CUSTOM2=1 skips intro on start
- Delay added to sound effects to fix for very fast machines
- Stack moved to fast memory if available
- Infinite weapon trainer added
- Reduced chip memory required
- Splash screen options added
- Source now included

Version 1.2 (10.09.2006)
- Music player fixed for 060 machines
- Holding down fire button while slave is starting up skips intro entirely
- Infinite energy trainer added - set CUSTOM1=1 to activate
- Updated icons

Version 1.1 (04.08.2002)
- Blitter waits inserted x5

Version 1.0 (28.06.2002)
- First release

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR:

This was one of my very first installs. How time seems to have flown by.
I'm mostly updating this to make my source freely available, but I took the
opportunity to add a few extra bits along the way. Also my old words made me
laugh. I was so young and eager. ;-)

--- DJ Mike (1st December 2025)

I'm DJ Mike, otherwise known as Mike Griffin. Having been a long-time fan of
the Amiga, and a great fan of all these WHDLoad installs being created, I
wanted to try doing some coding for myself. Of course, going from having
little knowledge of Amiga assembly to enough knowledge to patch any kind of
game takes a very long time. So hopefully you'll see my progress reflected
in the installs I created with time!

It turns out that while this was my first coded install, it has become my
third release ;-) "Galaxy Blast" and "Rat Trap" (my 2nd and 3rd installs)
made it out before this one - ah well!

Many thanks to CodeTapper, who has been kind enough to lend his time in
tutoring me on aspects of WHDLoad patching :-)

Since I've become very serious about patching, I'm upgrading my A1200 with a
Blizzard 1230/50 accelerator and 32MB of memory, since future installs will
need me to check for any MMU-related problems. This time around, thanks must
go to CodeTapper for alerting me to several access faults in Magnatron's
main game code. Stupid access faults moreover (removing them did sod all to
the game, as far as I can tell anyway).

Comments are appreciated, as are bug reports - I'll never learn unless I'm
told! As time goes by you'll be seeing more installs from me :-)

Greetings to Wepl and the rest of the WHDLoad team - great work, guys!

-- DJ Mike (22nd July 2002)

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