lr-mess-archimedes question for the game Blowpipe...

[duglor]

Blowpipe play question for anyone who can help:

I'm playing it in an emulation. When i get to the first shop (buy/sell) screen, everything is frozen or else I don't know what to press, etc. Mouse is not active on screen, no key i press does anything nor joystick remap buttons.

Is there a certain perhaps british only keyboard archimedes key that activates it? How do i do anything on that screen. it's got all the little windows closed on it. A card is inserted and it says i have 1350 credits or so to spend and then it's just frozen there. What must i do to do something there or leave the screen? Also, if anyone has a manual rules scan of the game?

[duglor]

@folly
Anything planned by anyone to perfect this emulator with Hard Disk Image Support? :D

be well.

Doug

[Folly]

@duglor said in lr-mess-archimedes question for the game Blowpipe...:

When i get to the first shop (buy/sell) screen, everything is frozen or else I don't know what to press, etc. Mouse is not active on screen, no key i press does anything nor joystick remap buttons.

Really not sure if I can help but I will give it a shot.

I tried this nice game on the aa5000 and it does work however I find it very difficult to play.
I did not get to the first shop yet.
Will try it again later.

ps.
You might want to use game-focus to enable certain keyboard keys although not sure it will help.

and...

Did you read the 'readme' on disk 1 ?
Do you run the game with more than 1mb memory or less and on what system ?

[duglor]

@Folly 4401 4 Meg Memory -1 floppy drive

[Folly]

@duglor

Got to the shop and had the same issue as you described.
Tried many things but sadly no solution.

[duglor]

@Folly said in lr-mess-archimedes question for the game Blowpipe...:

@duglor

Got to the shop and had the same issue as you described.
Tried many things but sadly no solution.

I have read it's a copy protection issue. The adf file is copy protected and only lets you play to that store via a preview. One needs a henceforth undumped version.

[Folly]

@duglor

Aha, that explains it all.
Do you have a reference to that information ?

[Folly]

@duglor

Found that the mame softlist version is a demo version it's in the !Boot file.
Found that with this program :
https://github.com/geraldholdsworth/DiscImageManager

The full version on .hdi file works. ;-)
Got into the shop and into level 2.

I added this to the runcommand to load the .hdi file (on aa5000)
-upc:ide:1 hdd -hard2 %ROM%
(in my script version 274.02 it has been added now by default)

Use !Configure to add an extra ide harddrive (nr 5)
Good luck !

[duglor]

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