Short : HD installers for Chaos Engine AGA/ECS/CD32 I & II V2.0
Type : game/patch
Author : Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@free.fr)
Uploader : Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@free.fr)

Install-Scripts & HD-loaders © 1997-2000 Jean-François FABRE

The Chaos Engine is ©1992-1994 Renegade/The Bitmap Brothers
The Chaos Engine 2 is ©1996 Renegade/The Bitmap Brothers

I decided to group the Chaos Engine games in a single install package.
Supported games are:

- The Chaos Engine ECS (2 versions)
- The Chaos Engine AGA
- The Chaos Engine 2 ECS
- The Chaos Engine 2 AGA
- The Chaos Engine CD32


---------- Chaos Engine 2 ECS/AGA ---------

CHAOS ENGINE 2 INSTALLER:

FEATURES:

- Full loading of the game from RAM/HD
- Uses JOTDStartup (jst) to run. At least V1.1a required
- Convenient installer script
- Possible quit with F10 key at any time
- Now full unprotected version. Please reinstall your old version
- Iconify/Snapshot option (TAB key)
- Annoying noise at startup fixed

BUGS:

Please report me all kinds of bugs.
I was reported crash in the end sequence. I'll try to reach it first :-)

THANX TO:

- Steve Kelly from the Bitmap Bros. for allowing me to create this patch, and
  for sending me a copy of the game!!

- The Bitmap Bros for their efforts to support the Amiga.


---------- CHAOS ENGINE ECS Hard Disk Installer ----------

This installer requires the Chaos Engine ORIGINAL disks (there are 2).
It should NOT work for Chaos Engine AGA. Use the Chaos Engine AGA instead.

The HD-Patched game will need about 1.5Mb of memory.
It has been tested on A1200/68060/16Mb, A1200/020/NoFast (with LOWMEM)

Filenames are chaos.d1 and chaos.d2. Please rename them if you installed the game before.

FEATURES:

- Full HD/RAM load of the game
- Now uses my JOTDStartup program (JST). This program is included
  and must be copied in the path if you don't have it already.
- Needs only 512K of chipmem, runs on a standard A1200/020/NoFast
- Convienient installer script
- 2 versions are now supported, thanks to the user who sent me his diskfile
- Quit key (F10)
- Joypad support with the JOYPAD tooltype: blue changes weapons, yellow swaps them,
  start pauses game. Works fine on CD32, but the pauseand yellow buttons cause problems
  (you have to move with the pad at the same time, but it works)

Bugs:

- When JOYPAD is selected, you can't use the keyboard to handle weapons :-)

---------- Chaos Engine CD32 ----------

Features:

- uses OSEmu (v1.28) & JST
- quit key (numerical '*')
- potential access fault fixed (thanks Harry!)

This loader uses OSEmu.

OSEmu is an AmigaOS emulation module originally written by Harry and
maintained/improved by Mr Larmer, Bert Jahn and me.

First, OSEmu was written to run A500 games, but now it can run CD32 games,
and can emulate the joypad with function keys:

F5:  blue
F6:  green
F7:  yellow
F8:  play/pause
F9:  left ear
F10: right ear

Of course joystick fire button is equal to red CD32 joypad button, and if you've
got a 2 differentiated button joystick, the second button matches the blue CD32
joypad button.

OSEmu is free and the source can be found either on the WHDLoad site
or in the JST developper package.

Check OSEmu version by typing "version C:OSEmu.400" (or whereever OSEmu is installed)

Thanks to Harry for helping me with some of the OSEmu stuff.

Thanks to Federico Fasani for telling me the CD-ROM label.

---------- CHAOS ENGINE AGA Hard Disk Installer ----------

This installer requires the Chaos Engine AGA ORIGINAL disks (there are 2).
It should NOT work for cracked versions.

The HD-Patched game will need about 2/3Mb of FAST memory and 2Mb of chip memory (AGA chipset)
It should work on ALL CPUs (68020 to 68060).
The game was also patched for NTSC users.
Report me any bugs you'll find.


FEATURES:

- Full HD/RAM load of the game
- Little memory consumption
- Uses JOTDStartup (jst) to run V1.1a required
- Memory patch (did not work with 68060 from floppy)
- Improved speed on decrunch parts
- Convienient installer script
- Quit key (F10)
- Iconify/snapshot key (TAB)

If you've got problems, you can disable the HDLOAD tooltype. The files will be loaded in RAM
before the game starts.

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Enjoy this HUGE game on your HD.