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| MR. BROWNSTONE |
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| BY DELIGHT |
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As the programmer of this game, I would like to add some last-minute things
to what the Manual already says. Worst things first, this game is NOT compa-
tible with any CPU except the 68000. This is because I started on the game
very long ago (1.5 years!), when I had barely ever heard of higher CPU's.
For this reason the game doesn't contain a VB-Check, and as thus, on a CPU
running twice as fast as the 68000, the game runs twice as fast! Just imagine
how it looked on my friends' A530, which is clocked at more that 12 times
as fast as my bog-old A500.... In fallback mode however, it should work
perfectly (no self-modifying code or 32-bits Adressing uses). For computers
without a fallback mode it's bad news though.
As I am going to buy a 68020-based A1200 soon myself, I'm considering to
rewrite some portions of the code to make it compatible anyway. So if I
receive enough comments from people who just can't live without playing this
game on their 680X0, I might just do it!!
Quite a small bit, is that everybody who copies this game should do that
after reading the Note_To_PD-Distributors.DOC. The rules given there count
for all distributors, either big or small.
On a rosy front, this game cannot be invisibly infected by Bootblock
viruses* as it contains a non-standard bootblock by itself. This bootblock
does nothing more than the normal DOS-bootblock, except switching the
background color to black and removing Bitplane-DMA from the system. So as
soon as the disk boots up without the black screen immediately after inser-
tion, start checking!
Niels Keurentjes, programmer/designer
* Recently many people thought they were intelligent, and started saying
'VIRI' is the plural of 'VIRUS'. Well, I've been learning Latin for two
years now, and I know that 'virus' is a word from the 4th declination,
making the plural 'virus' with a different pronuncation. As we poor sad
modern guys can't make out the difference between them, we just say its
plural is 'viruses'.