Latest ReadySoft 'cartoon' game for Atari ST (or it is Space Ace 2 ?) .
Technical: TOS indep. Joystick, keyboard control.
Deprotected, redirected background floppy load to hard disk with read ahead cache. Added auto-play, unlimited lives options. Runs on any ST(E), Mega ST(E), TT, Falcon, from hard disk only . Min RAM: 1MB. No gamex.
Update, Jan 2012: New system, compatible with all hard disk drivers, 1GB Falcon partitions. Run with RUNME.TOS .
There is exit to Desktop too, but no savestates - what is not planned for games like this.
Cat: M5IF .
This was sixth ReadySoft game adaptation by me. First was very hard, then went pretty fast (as fast as it may with 5-7 floppy games), because code is almost same in all versions. All adaptations made from Pasti images.
Floppy reading part is pretty complicated - partially because they made it so, that even users with single-sided floppies can play game (with some parts missing, of course). I'm just thinking why ReadySoft took care about it in 1991 instead doing STE DMA audio for instance - what would result in much better audio... But all this is history, after all.
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