Short: HD Installer for No Second Prize V0.9
Type: game/patch
Author: jffabre@free.fr (Jean-François Fabre)
Uploader: jffabre@free.fr (Jean-François Fabre)


Install-Script & HD-loader © 1997 Jean-François FABRE


No Second Prize is © Thalion

This installer requires the Amiga Power cover disk featuring NSP.
It will not work for the commercial version of NSP, but I'm planning it.

The HD-Patched game will need about 2MB of memory to run.

INSTALLATION:

Click on the Install_NSP icon to install the game and follow the instructions.

FEATURES:

- Runs fully from RAM/HD
- Convenient installer script
- Load/Saves on HD or on floppy (with the NOOSSWAP tooltype)
- Runs on a vanilla A1200
- Quit key (F10)
- Uses JOTDStartup (not included)
- NTSC tooltype allows to get more frames/second (worth on 68020+)

If your diskimage is called nsp.disk1, rename it into nsp.d1.


IF YOU WANT TO SAVE/LOAD FROM HD, READ THIS:

It is possible to save and load your games from HD, provided you've got enough memory.

I introduced a Delay for HD saves, because the buffers are not flushed at once.
So avoid copyback disk caches, like AFS, or disable the copyback feature (in dynamicache).

WARNING: Do not press keys during hard disk access: this can lock the machine, which means
a possible disk corruption if you're saving a game (not very serious, but annoying).

Using SAVEDIR (registered version of JST) wil allow you do load/save game data in another
directory than the game directory.

IF YOU STILL WANT TO SAVE/LOAD FROM FLOPPY READ THIS:

Anyway, if you don't want to write/read the hard disk for game saves, or you haven't enough
memory, you can disable the HD accesses by activating the NOOSWAP tooltype.


HINT FOR HEX HACKERS:

If you save from HD, the game will create a file called 'nsp.save'. At offset $5, you'll see the number of
games already saved. Reset it to 0 and you'll get 8 saves.


DISCLAIMER:

I'm not responsible for any damage caused directly or indirectly by this piece
of software.