Short: HD Installer for Sensible Golf V1.2a
Type: game/patch
Author: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre)
Uploader: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre)


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

Sensible Golf is Copyright © 1993 Sensible Software.

This installer requires the Sensible Golf original disks (there are 2).

The HD-Patched game will need about 4Mb of memory. 512K of chip should
be enough. It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs (up to '060).
The game was also patched for NTSC users.
Report me any bugs you'll find.

INSTALLATION:

Click on the Install_SensibleGolf icon to install the game.

FEATURES:

- Runs fully from HD
- Load/saves/delete on HD or floppy
- Convenient installer script
- Quit key at any time (F10)


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).

I took the maximum care I could to avoid those problems, and I tested those features
a lot because I know they are critical. Use it at your own risk. If you don't trust
the program, run the game from a test partition or a ramdisk. If you're not happy with
it, nevermind. I worked hard for this and it works for me :-)
Because of the Delay after a write to the disk (file open then close in read mode then
2 seconds waiting), I think disk crashes are very improbable. I did not test my program
with a very slow hard drive or a floppy, but I never crashed my disk with this system.

The 'FORMAT' option has been disabled in HD saves mode. You'll understand why :-)


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.

The full HD version will not work with machines equipped with only 4 MB of
memory. Use the NOOSSWAP tooltype/argument to enable floppy saves.

MAKING A SAVE DISK:

The in-game 'FORMAT' option still works but it's slow because it formats all the sectors.
It's also randomly reliable.
If you've got already formatted disks and you want to create save game disks from them,
use the MakeSaveDisk script. It's much faster and much safer.


BUGS:

- I experienced problems when running the game without the NOFAST tooltype.
- When you press 'J' during the game, the game exits. I don't know why...
- Sounds goes weird when you load/save/delete from HD (not serious...)

NOTE:

I created and tested this package with a A1200/060/50 16Mb, so there should
be no problems for all 680x0 CPUs (caches,chipset...). It degrades display properly
so Multiscan users won't have any sprite or screen problem.

If you find some bugs, or the game crashes, please e-mail me (specify your
configuration).
I'm also looking for people who could send me original disks for me to patch them
for 680x0 or write HD-Installers (NOT FOR CRACKED VERSIONS).
E-mail me if you're interested, or if you simply like this installer.


Thanks to Sentinel for his installer script I adapted mine from.

Enjoy this great game from Sensible on your HD.

Jeff