It's Christmas time again and Scoopex is back with another fine release. This time we decided to work on               Arcticfox                 Fully cracked and fixed by StingRay. The docs are also on this disk. This is another game which was not cracked back in the day (TM). Being one of the early Amiga games it was protected with Electronic Arts' very own encryption which isn't trivial to crack. I have removed all protection layers and converted the game to 100% Amiga DOS. This proved to be somewhat tricky as I had to find a way to claim sprite 0 (mouse pointer) as the game uses it. Took me a while to come up with a solution but now it's finally done. There were also several bugs in the code, the game didn't work correctly on machines with fast memory and the return codes for LoadSeg and other DOS routines were not checked properly. The game also had quite some problems on fast machines which took quite a bit of time to fix. Due to an interrupt problem which caused the game to lock up it was actually unplayable on anything else than a plain 68000 Amiga. Once fixed the game would run much too fast so timing fixes had to be applied too. There also were some annoying graphics glitches in the menu part which even occured on plain 68000 machines running Kickstart 3.0 or better, fixing these glitches took several hours as it was not easy to find the reason for them. In the end I was successful though and solved the problem. That the binary uses overlay hunks didn't make it any easier. After quite some hours of work Arcticfox should now hopefully run on all Amigas.          Greetings to all active Amiga sceners, some personal hellos to: Alpha One, Ross, Galahad, Wayne Kerr, Sensenstahl, Mr. Spiv, Corial, Tees (thanks for the awesome logo!), Motion, Slummy, Britelite, Dodke, Fra, Musashi5150, Musashi9, Rog, Mad, Krill, Dalezy, Nero, Skan, Frequent, Loaderror and everyone in Scoopex, Scarab and Desire. If you aren't mentioned you either don't deserve to be greeted or I simply forgot you. It's your task to decide what applies to you. :)                      Intro credits: Code by StingRay, Graphics by Tees and Music by Notorious.                     Have a merry Christmas and a very happy new year.          See you in our next release and stay safe!                                            



A Scoopex release in December 2020.