   First Samurai      for Atari ST

Some good news for players:

New is RUNME.TOS . It is more
compatible, and should work
with any decent hard disk driver,
ICD Pro for instance, and with lot
of low RAM occupied (max some 800KB)
- if have 2MB or more RAM.  Works on any
ST, STE, Mega ST(E), TT, Falcon .
(from 1GB partitions too).
Min RAM is 1MB. With more RAM little
faster loadings, but even with 1MB it
is very fast.  On TT and Falcon PMMU
is used during load for extra speed.

Exit to Desktop is by pressing * -
it will not save gamestate, and
it will be not in High RAM, so you
can not use GXUTIL for permanent
save.  Instead it, use key / during
gameplay for saving state directly
in file. Statesave file will have name
GS00.TOS   to  GS99.TOS   .
Yes, it is runnable ! Doubleclick on
it will restore your game pos in 2 secs.
Additional space of 500 bytes in statesave
file is worth of easy usage.
Name is autoincremented by saving code.
Max 100 saves may go in 1 DIR, what btw.
takes some 50MB . If there are all files
up to GS99 program will overwrite
GS00.TOS, so take care to save it or
rename before playig -  if it is some
valuable position.

May add comments in statesave file -
- hold down Left Shift while starting it.
Or  just read/check - hold down Right
Shift while starting .


Added unlimited lives or health opts.

Access to all levels:  sector 2 on original
floppy 2 is for saving highscores + game
progress. I added options to use clean sector,
or sector which allows access to all levels.
It goes in image file FILES/F2A, pos $200 .
If you want to permanently save your progress
& scores, save that data after playing, otherwise
may be overwritten - if select A or C in launcher's
option menu at start. With some file edit SW,
save $200 bytes at pos $200 from file F2A.

Simpler:  just copy file F2A to same DIR, with
different name (MYSCORES for instance) . Then
it will remain intact. 

And of course, you can even use your old
saved progress & highscores if make ST image
of floppy 2, and copy mentioned area into 
file F2A - but only if you know how to do it
correctly.


  PP,  Jan. 2012.