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Short: Bugfix for level 8 of Alien Breed Special Edition
Type: game/patch
Uploader: warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Bill Bennett)
This is a bugfix for the game "Alien Breed Special Edition '92" taken from
the coverdisk of Amiga Format February 93 issue. Tha magazine states that
"early production versions of this game crashed on higher levels" and that
the bugfix would sort this out. It also fixes a bug which I (and others)
came across on level eight: Namely that it is impossible to reach duct 3 -
the exit from the level, due to a hemisphere on the wall at one of the
junctions rendering it totally impassable.
Run the fix program and insert the Alien Breed datadisk (disk 2) in df0: to
apply the patch.
***WARNING!******WARNING!*****WARNING!*****WARNING!*****WARNING!*****
I applied this patch under kickstart 1.3 and got very weird results. The
game would run OK for a minute or so then freeze without warning.
Rebooting led to constant lockups with my hard disk. I switched off my
A1000 for a few minutes, then upon switching back on and inserting the
kickstart disk, I was greeted with a pale green screen, followed by as
multicoloured "copper barf-list" and some futile disk-grinding noises. I
have 4 megs of RAM, so perhaps I didn't leave the power off long enough to
flush out the RAM fully, but whatever the mis-patched game had done to the
system was tenacious and vicious! Powering down the system completely for
ten minutes solved the problem.
I re-applied the patch under KS2.04 and everything worked fine - the game
runs and level 8 can now be completed. I don't know whether the kickstart
version or my antique hardware had anything to do with the patch failing
the first time around, and frankly, I got such a scare that I am
disinclined to experiment. All I can say is that if you get weird results
after using this program, re-apply it and hope for the best. It _does_
work, however.
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11920 11545 3.1% 16-Dec-92 19:58:34 fixab
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