Re: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Owen
Simon Cooke wrote: That one basically ignored the track/sector addresses (wrote them out as weird values IIRC), so you'd need to manage all that manually to get the data off the disk. The one I have is 5x1024 per track, with the cylinder value as 128 in each header, except for the boot sector

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Cooke
t: RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax > > > > > > ---Original Message--- > > From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax > > Sent: 01 May '07 01:58 > > > > Hey, Simon, are you still in the Seattle area? I'm considering another > trip that way, later this year.

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-30 Thread James R Curry
> ---Original Message--- > From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax > Sent: 01 May '07 01:58 > Hey, Simon, are you still in the Seattle area? I'm considering another trip that way, later this year.

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Cooke
Ah yes... nearly the very hackiest of the hacky disk protection systems I put together. The only hackier one was the Lemmings stuff which Chris expanded on, which stuffed a hell of a lot more data on the disk. That one basically ignored the track/sector addresses (wrote them out as weird values II

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Cooke
Haha... yeah... :) Colin was a little pissed when he found out... But there was a lot of room on the disk... ;-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Simon Owen > Sent: 04/17/2007 11:52 AM > To: sam-users > Subject: Entrpoy demos in Parall

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Cooke
IIRC, E,D,G,INV was the infinite lives cheat for Parallax. :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Simon Owen > Sent: 04/18/2007 12:03 AM > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: Entrpoy demos in Parallax > &

Re: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-18 Thread Simon Owen
Stefan Drissen wrote: And just viewing the parallax.fix file (on Fred 25) in SimCoupe shows the following, hehe: HERE, USED TO BE SOME ENTROPY DEMOS - AND YOU CAN STILL GET TO THEM IF YOU POKE THE JUMP JUST ABOVE WITH 16607... COOKIE! That's the one I ran into, so I guess the disk I acquired

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-17 Thread Stefan Drissen
... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stefan Drissen Sent: Tue 4/17/2007 23:49 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax An Entropy menu is started by holding down a certain set of keys while booting. When Colin found out about this he requested it removed - which is what the

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-17 Thread Stefan Drissen
: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Entrpoy demos in Parallax Stefan Drissen wrote: > Do you mean the hidden demo? It has Entro 1, Entro 2 and Hot Butter - not new demos, but access to them enabled by patching a jump address, as described in the on-disk instructions! There was also a menti

Re: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-17 Thread Simon Owen
Stefan Drissen wrote: Do you mean the hidden demo? It has Entro 1, Entro 2 and Hot Butter - not new demos, but access to them enabled by patching a jump address, as described in the on-disk instructions! There was also a mention of a key combo doing something else in the options, but I've

RE: Entrpoy demos in Parallax

2007-04-17 Thread Stefan Drissen
Do you mean the hidden demo? Which in turn was nicely patched by the bug fix to fix the crash when loading a certain higher level (interupts were not enabled after loading it...). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Owen > Sent: T