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

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    • duglorD
      duglor
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      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?

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      • duglorD
        duglor @duglor
        last edited by duglor

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

        be well.

        Doug

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          Folly @duglor
          last edited by 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 ?

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          • duglorD
            duglor @Folly
            last edited by duglor

            @Folly 4401 4 Meg Memory -1 floppy drive

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              Folly @duglor
              last edited by

              @duglor

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

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              • duglorD
                duglor @Folly
                last edited by 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.

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                  Folly @duglor
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                  @duglor

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

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                    Folly @duglor
                    last edited by 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 !

                    Schermafdruk op 2025-02-22 21-27-16.png

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