Hey there!

First, i´d really like to thank all of you guys from D-Bug for the great Falcon-Fixes you offer (and already offered) to the Atari community, including me. Keep up the quality work!

But...i have a little problem with Wizball of your February Falcon Fix-Pack.
It starts normally and i can see the Intro showing up, but when i press the firebutton to get into the game, the screen changes to the playfield and one second later the sound hangs and i get 3 bombs (even in red ). I even tried it with a clean boot of my Falcon, but it doesn´t help, same problem there.
I possess a Falcon030 (16MHz) with 14MB RAM, 68882 FPU, German TOS 4.04 and an 800MB internal HDD with HD Driver 8.13.

So does anyone of you guys know what it could be or what i´m possibly doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!

Hey again,

i copied Wizball in an AUTO-folder on a blank Floppy disk (1.44 MB), booted my Falcon with ALTERNATE key pressed (to make sure HD Driver isn´t loading) and got into the game.
But when it comes to the playfield (like on HDD), after i pressed a key at the Intro, i see Level 1 show up and then i have floppy disk access again (no sprite, no music, just the playfield graphics), which ends up in a loop (my Falcon Floppy makes some really scary noises at this time :/ )...
So...any other idea?

Hi,

I can't duplicate this on either of my Falcon's...  so I can't really debug this one for you.  If GGN or SHW can duplicate this crash we might be able to get somewhere.

Sorry!

No problem if you don´t find the error...i appreciate your tries to fix it for me. Thanks!

Hey!

This is strange that this error just occurs on my Falcon.
I already booted it from a 1.44 MB Floppy with Alternate-key pressed to make sure HD Driver doesn´t load. And i didn´t see any info window of my HD Driver while booting with the Alternate key.

I already posted my Falcon specs above, in the first one...but here they are again. With some stuff that i forgot in the first post but which maybe helpful now:
Falcon030 68030 @ 16MHz - DSP @ 32 MHz (no Accelerator), 68882 FPU, 14MB RAM, German TOS 4.04, 800 MB internal Toshiba HDD, HD Driver 8.13 and i am using MagiC! 6.2 OS on it.
Another thing is, that my Dallas Chip (the Chip which stores the hardware clock and regional settings) passed away 6 months ago. So i have an english TOS now, if i boot it without MagiC.

Hope this helps.

Heyho!

Great! That´s it! I just renamed it into "Wiz030.TOS" and now i can play it without any problems!
Thanks for the help, guys!

Saviour wrote on 18.03.07 at 21:21:20:


Nice

Well, the thing with Wizball is that I got it for inclusion at the last moment, so I rushed to test, it crashed, I renamed it to .prg, it worked, and forgot (or didn't have time) to send it back to the others for testing. Sorry about that