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Arcade/!ReadMe
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1997-01 B.adf » Features |
| Filename: | Arcade/!ReadMe |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0207 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
To play Hive, you'll need to decompress everything here into a separate folder on your hard drive, run your new copy of !Hive.!Boot, then run !MakePop to convert the sprites. Now sit back and make some tea... The version of !MakePop supplied with Hive does a different job from last month's copy; when run it will convert all the sprites from !Hive.^.Originals to !Hive.Graphics. The backdrops need to be converted separately with the BDMake program, but are supplied converted to avoid too much confusion. Matthew
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