Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:13 am
£5 prize to the first one to write a walk-throughvanpeebles wrote:Wow! I’ve wanted to play this for years!
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair 1940 - 2021
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£5 prize to the first one to write a walk-throughvanpeebles wrote:Wow! I’ve wanted to play this for years!
Is the mdump utility somewhere available to download? Unfortunately couldn't find it.M68008 wrote:The mdump utility creates microdrive images in a format different from the QLay one. For example, it includes multiple copies of bad sectors in case this can help data recovery later.
It is part of Daniele's Q-Emulator install - Which can be downloaed from his site.mk79 wrote:Is the mdump utility somewhere available to download? Unfortunately couldn't find it.M68008 wrote:The mdump utility creates microdrive images in a format different from the QLay one. For example, it includes multiple copies of bad sectors in case this can help data recovery later.
Cheers, Marcel
lol, I've been looking all over the net for a good dump utility and now it turns out I already had it on my hard-drive for years Thanks.tofro wrote:It is part of Daniele's Q-Emulator install - Which can be downloaed from his site.
Great Job!!!Chr$ wrote:Sam the Little Spaceman by Aholasoft of Finnland. Is it really MIA?
I appear to have a working (but non original) copy that I have successfully recovered today.
sam_little_spaceman1.jpg
I just had a look at this - the code does not ring too many bells - it has to be loaded to a specific address in memory. I think this is my updated version as it runs without issue on a JS ROM but I can't be sure.bwinkel67 wrote:So it looks like the game will run on JSU ROM. I switched the JS ROM to the JSU ROM on the Q-emuLator and got it to work. I believe the game needs to start from MDV1_. I looked through all the binary code and couldn't find any reference to devices but it will not work from MDV2_ onward. I also tried FLP1_ and that didn't work either. The clone program makes a copy of the game and it does ask which device to boot from but then only modifies boot and load_sam2 and changing to anything other than MDV1_ causes it not to load, so not sure how useful the clone program is.
I haven't looked through it in a HEX editor. I did hack the Tanks game back in the 90's to work with a US NTSC TV (to stop it auto-switching to monitor mode) and I recall having to step through it with a debugger (I still have the debugger) to figure out when it was switching screens. I suppose if I get some time I can do that here as well.
Since you had patched it before, do you have any insight?RWAP wrote:You can tell whether it is the original version or the one I updated
Thanks Simone.Outsoft wrote: Great Job!!!
TK2 is no problem. Minerva may be the issue.nikosdoykas wrote:in qubide with minerva+tk2 or jm the ql say bad parameter on load restart bin...
its an mdi image ot a img...?
or a trick to say that we have only 128kb?