| Readme: | Pinball Fantasies: Encore! for MorphOS
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Pinball Fantasies (Digital Illusions, 1994) on its own engine, written from the
DOS game's code: the four tables, their original rules and physics, and redrawn
high-resolution artwork you can switch on and off at any time.
https://github.com/pedrocatalao/pinball-fantasies-encore
(French: LisezMoi-MorphOS.txt)
Requirements
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- MorphOS 3.20 or later (it comes with the OpenSSL library the game uses),
and a Radeon driven by r300.library.
- For the HD version, an R500 Radeon: X1300, X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900 or
X1950 (tried on an X1950 Pro). Older Radeons (9500 to X850) play the
original version: the original pictures, without the HD ones, the dot
display effect or the CRT look.
- sdl3.library in LIBS:.
- The original game files, from the 1994 MS-DOS release only.
Installing
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Copy the drawer anywhere and start PinballFantasiesEncore. The game files go
into the FANTASY drawer beside it; with none there, the first start offers to
fetch them, if you own the game. It then offers the remastered artwork (about
30 MB): say no and you get the original pictures.
The Internet is only needed for these downloads and the online high scores.
Without it the game plays with what its drawer holds (the original pictures if
the artwork is not there yet), and a high score waits in replays/outbox to be
sent the next time the game starts online.
Everything stays in the drawer: options, high scores, recordings (replays/),
game files, artwork. Nothing goes to ENV: or ENVARC:.
Keys
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Menu F1-F4 (or 1-4) a table, F5 (or 5) the options, Esc quit
Playing Enter start a game (again before launching: one more player)
Shift or Alt flippers, left and right (MorphOS does not
tell the two Ctrl keys apart: both do the same)
Cursor down plunger, let go to launch
Space nudge (too much and you tilt)
M music, P pause, Esc leave the table
Paused A angle, S scrolling, R resolution, D dot display top or bottom,
cursor up/down scroll, F7 lamps, F8 ball trail
Any time F9 CRT look, F10 remastered or original pictures, 0 sound mix,
F11 full screen, F12 frames a second, Shift+F12 vsync
Gamepad
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Table LB or LT, RB or RT flippers, left and right
A plunger (as down), B or X nudge, Y pause,
Start start a game (again: one more player), Back leave the table
Menu A, B, X, Y the four tables, Start the options, LB/RB next page,
Back quit
Options up/down choose, A change, Start or Back leave
Screen
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Options (F5), MORE OPTIONS, SCREEN SETUP: window, full screen over the
Workbench, or a screen of its own with its size and depth (16 or 32 bits),
and vsync. Remembered; F11 switches between the window and that full screen.
Options
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From a Shell, or from the icon's ToolTypes (Information window): the name
without its dashes, the value after "=" (STATS, LOG=RAM:pf.log, DATA=Work:PF).
A ToolType in brackets, (STATS), is off.
--data <dir> DATA= the game files from elsewhere
--table <1-4> TABLE= open a table directly
--skip-intro SKIPINTRO straight to the menu
--fullscreen FULLSCREEN start full screen
--res <mode> RES= normal, high, full or tall
--hd / --no-hd HD / NOHD remastered or original pictures
--stats STATS frames a second, in the log
--log <file> LOG= the log into a file instead of the Shell
--verbose VERBOSE log everything
--no-shaders NOSHADERS the original pictures, without shaders
<file.RPL> play a recording (or open its icon with the game)
Only --verbose writes to the Shell; --log writes to its file.
To send a log: PinballFantasiesEncore --stats --log RAM:pf.log
The engine and the game are GPL-3.0 (LICENSE.txt). The original game is not
included.
If you like this game, feel free to support the author and the porter :-)
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