Getting Napalm to run on AmigaOS 4.1.2?

Well i finaly got round to installing Napalm with the fix and had a quick play on it and boy am i impressed plays brilliantly (although it is a little fast) and the audio works great to, im going to have more time over the weekend to really play it and will report back if i encounter any problems. :)

Can someone remind me where we can download this in-progress Napalm patch? Or only available to a few people?

N.B. I already have Napalm installed (from A1200 days), but of course it won't run...

I need it too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Me!! :)

@thread

anyone who needs a Napalm patch should send me an email at alfkil@gmail.com. I'm not going to post it here on the forum for legal reasons.

@alfkil

Why not just make a patch file with your changes to the original Napalm executable that the users can then apply. This is how some unofficial updates to OS components are distributed on Aminet at least (spatch is used to apply them to the original binary files). AFAIU it should take care of any legal issues.

The patch is for beta tester only at the moment but i dont think it will be long before it is released.

@carvedeye

I am working on Qt stuff at the moment, but as soon as I find the time/energy I will try and make an update that uses the new cdplayer.library and make a patch for release.

An email has been sent to beta-team .

EDIT: Just tested the new cdplayer.library, it works smashingly fine here .

EDITEDIT: Doesn't work out of the box with Napalm, though, need to find out why...

@salass00

Just a thought: Since Napalm is 100% 68k, does your cdplayer.library support that?? I mean, does it have a LVO offset table etc...?? I don't know much about .library stuff, so that's why I'm asking.

EDIT: Ok I have solved it, just needed to write "CD_Device = sii3114ide.device" and "CD_Unit = 3" in Napalm.prefs. This is way cool, dude, great work!

@salass00

I have encountered one slight problem: CDInfo returns a device type of 0x00. I think this should be 0x05. What do you think??

Another problem is, that the SetVolume function seems to be much much slower than the original library.

Has anyone been able to get past level 2 of the game?? I'm not a gamer myself, so I have a hard time just getting past the first level...

Hopefully I will have some time to try it tonight... And if it runs OK I will play a few levels at least.

When it was released some people had problems with lvl 4 and I wrote a small guide for that level.

@alfkil

I think the speed of the game is the problem getting past level 2.
The enemy are on you before you have had a chance to build.

Pressing ESC should bring up a menu, which has the option to slow the game down.
At the moment all that happens is something flashes up briefly , so the option can't be used.

@alfkil

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The INQUIRY command that cdplayer.library sends is wrong.

Instead of:
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it should be:
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I'll fix it and release an update ASAP.

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The secret is to press the letter "O". Dunno why this changed, but anyway it works :)

@alfkil

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Are you referring to the fact that the function takes longer to return or that the change takes longer to take effect.

If it's the former I can easily get around it by making the volume variables directly accessible for GetVolume() and SetVolume() functions.

If it's the latter then that's a problem with a high-level audio API like AHI that I can't really do anything about. It can be reduced somewhat by reducing the size of the audio buffers but if they are reduced too much the audio quality will suffer.

@salass00

I guess I am refering to primarily the first. There is a "fade out" function in Napalm, that makes repeated calls to SetVolume, and it takes forever to complete. At the moment, I have just redirected calls to the fade out func to CDStop.

cdplayer.library v52.4 is now up:
http://www.a500.org/downloads/libraries/cdplayer_lib_7z.readme

@salass00

Good work mate, i've already installed the software you suggest on my PC and i'm currently uploading all you need for you test, check the Hyperion forum tonight (as i complete the procedure)