Short: HD Installer for Overdrive V1.0a (bugfix)
Type: game/patch
Author: jffabre@ensica.fr (Jean-François Fabre)


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

Overdrive is ©1993 Team17 Software.

--- Overdrive Hard Disk Installer ---

This installer requires the ORIGINAL disks from Overdrive (there are 2)

It will NOT work for cracked versions of Overdrive.

The HD-Patched game will need about 3Mb of memory.

It should work on ALL Kickstarts and ALL CPUs (up to '060).
Report me any bugs you'll find.

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.
However, I think some MMU softkicked amigas will not be able to run the patch
properly. I can't do the impossible, sorry...

*** WARNING ***

There was a bug in Rob2File
Please install the game again from this version.

***************

When the disks are copied during installation, the pointer freezes. That's
normal cause the game uses a custom trackload routine (copy-protection), and
it does not easily multitask. No checks are done to see if you swapped the disks
or not.

FEATURES:

- Full HD Install of the game
- Convenient install script provided (adapted from Bert Jahn's ones)
- Save/Load records on hard drive or floppy
- Full use of fast memory if available.
- F10 key allows you to quit the game at any time (4MB of fast required).
- Fixed an annoying white->black fade when accessing a disk (loss of time, aggressive).

IMPORTANT:

To save scores to floppy, just set the NOOSSWAP tooltype/argument.
If you save to hard drive, be careful not to use a copyback cache on your HD partition,
else you could corrupt the partition (but this would only happen if you reset
without quitting the game properly).


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 (NO WAY FOR CRACKED VERSIONS).
E-mail me if you're interested, or if you simply like this installer.

DISCLAIMER:

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

DISTRIBUTION:

This patch can be distributed freely, but I'd appreciate that you drop me a line
if you include it in a coverdisk or PD collection.

However, FFD (France Festival Distribution) is not allowed to include it in any
of its PD disks (if you read usenet in fr.comp.sys.amiga, you'll know why).
It's the only exception for the distribution.

ME:

Visit my patch page, where all my HD work is gathered, along with some other
quality installers (all for original software), and some other interesting
freeware stuff:

http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/patches.html

And my home page (totally stupid stuff):

http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/ (english)
http://www.ensica.fr/~jffabre/index_fr.html (french)

E-mail: jffabre@ensica.fr

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Enjoy this cool game from Team 17 on your HD.

Jeff