Hi folks,

Just added "Blood Money" to the news and patch section.

"What?" you say... "Wasn't that on Menu 194(a)?".....

Well, yes..... but....

I've been meaning to re-do the very first few patches we put out for a while now.  Most of them have very strict requirements about where in memory they are loaded, or they will crash.  Recently while going back through the patches, I discovered that I could only get Blood Money working if it auto-booted from floppy (I have no idea what has changed in my config over the last 2 years) so I decided to do something about that.

While re-fixing this, I also noticed the shadow register writes during the intro samples, so I fixed those as well.  Plus I've added a delay after the first picture so it stays on screen long enough for you to look at it and realise that it's not actually that bad!

Due to adding our latest loader shell the game now needs 2mb to run, but at least you get some great Dubmood to listen to. Hopefully over the following weeks we'll get around to re-patching some of the others, and maybe re-issuing the entire menu as a "v2" if we re-do everything on it.

I would also like to go back and re-do "Cannon Fodder" and make it F30 compatible.  Unfortunatly I don't have the source code for the loader anymore (stupid HD crash years back!) so I guess I'll have to reverse engineer my own code (EasyRider to the rescue!)  -  Would there be much interest in fixing this?

OK enough ramblings for now,

CJ.

Yes, yes, yes!!! 

OK,

Cannon Fodder is happily running on my falcon now - and I've sent it to the rest of the guys to test before we release it.

I've also added level skip (Press 's' during the game)

If all goes well, it should be online for download shortly.


CJ