Tim Love's Cricket (Peaksoft)

Use this forum to submit new files for the download section of the archive. I will check each submission and upload it to the archive on a regular basis.
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daelectron
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Tim Love's Cricket (Peaksoft)

Post by daelectron »

The CAS version in the Dragon Archive is broken, although the bug doesn't show up until after team selection and when you start the game itself.

There is a WAV file here:

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/Tim_Loves_Cricket.zip

I would advise converting this one to CAS and then replacing the old version with it. I downloaded the broken version from the green-screen archive section, not the Wiki section.
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Post by robcfg »

Hi,

You'll find attached the cas file converted from your wav file.

Could you please tell which of the two files in the downloads section you downloaded? The or the [!] one?
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Post by Alastair »

daelectron,
does the version you tested work on a Dragon 32? Tim Love's Cricket is one of those programs that fall foul of the USR bug, the original will work on a Dragon 32 but not on any other version of Dragon (without patching).
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Post by peaksoft »

In fact, although the original issue of TLC was incompatible with the D64, the code was amended and we trashed quite a few copies of the original when it was replaced.

There was also a disastrous, very short-lived stop-gap version that prompted:

Do you have
1 A Dragon 32 or
2 A Dragon 64?

The intention was that the user should enter "1" or "2"

Unfortunately, some D32 users entered "3" which was ignored, then "2" which selected the D64 version.
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Post by zephyr »

That version of the game will only work correctly on a Dragon 32 (and any Dragon 64 that has been upgraded with Steve Woolham's Enhanced ROMs).


I have fixed the bug which causes the game to crash when attempting to run it on a Dragon 64. I have also fixed the Heads/Tails bug.
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Post by zephyr »

Further improved the Heads/Tails coin toss routine.
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