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#1

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 12-12-2025, 21:25:59

Actually, I haven't done that yet. I know I've
got that - let me try it next, see if that works.

Will report back... Thanks.

#2

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Petari - 12-12-2025, 13:05:42

Did you try it with my driver ? As I know you have 7 GB image ...

#3

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 12-12-2025, 00:40:14

Well, I think I'm going to give up on this one Peter.

I'm sure it's probably just me. I still can't get it
to work. With that latest file, it goes past the scanned
image and then immediately 2 bombs, then a few seconds
later, 2 more bombs are added for a total of 4.

Anyway, thanks for trying - much appreciated.

#4

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Petari - 11-12-2025, 12:16:08

  Here is launcher with one more correction: Another RUNME
 Unpack/copy it to game's DIR and start with it .

#5

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Petari - 09-12-2025, 09:31:56

 You can copy it to 7GB compil. - it has driver with lower RAM usage, and I tested with it on Mega STE - worked well. And you can even add it to GAMELIST.TXT - not hard to get record structure.
 Copy to partition E, DIR F .
 Btw. new compil. is under work, soon will be ready and DL-able.

#6

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 08-12-2025, 19:45:49

I'm using HDDriver v12.72 at the moment.

I will go back, strip everything down to just the
driver running, make sure it's caches are all at a
minimum and try again.

I'll report back once I try that.

Thanks.

#7

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Petari - 08-12-2025, 09:57:19

 Most likely the problem is some larger RAM usage before game start - and this is sensitive to it.
What hard disk driver you use ? What settings ?

#8

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 07-12-2025, 22:53:03

Oh well, I gave it another shot. I'm still unable to get past the screen where it says:

0% of game completed
Play Again? (Y/N)

Whether I press Y or N, it either repeats the text or bombs out. 

It's probably not worth any more time. The reviews really slammed it as a bad game.

Thanks for trying Peter.

#9

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Ronald J. Hall - 07-12-2025, 03:03:04

I grabbed the hard drive version and will try it
later.

I understand about it not being worth the effort.

The magazine reviews that I can find criticized it
pretty heavily.

Oh well...

Thanks for the work on it.

#10

Software / Re: The Final Battle?

Last post by Petari - 06-12-2025, 11:47:00

 Game has buggy and overcomplicated code. Screen operations have some overshot - write in higher RAM locations too than screen memory. That is reason for crash with 4 MB RAM when running from floppy.
 With hard disk adapt is more complicated as it damages read ahead cache, saved TOS state ...
Made corrected version with few fixes. Now works well from floppy with 4 MB RAM.
 By hard disk run is OK too, as see, only that needs min 4 MB RAM with TOS 2.06.
There are some dots remaining when move cursor at map - actually not that bad - can see where walked.
Complete fix would need loooot of time, rewriting code. Not sure is it worth.

Hard disk  test v. 2
Fixed floppy v.