Vamiga: Paradroid '90 crashes

[KenDFish]

Paradroid '90 (ADF attached) boots but doesn't get far - I can see lots of

[14770] (219,224) FC16A4 BC--D- 0000 1022 Memory: WARNING: peek16(FFFFFF): Address violation error (reading odd address)

errors. After stalling for around 15 seconds (or much longer if "warp mode" isn't enabled), vAmiga then crashes with

Assertion failed: (IS_EVEN(addr)), function peekCustom16, file /Users/hoff/vAmiga/Amiga/Computer/Memory.cpp, line 1081.

Hope this is useful!
KD0088 Paradroid '90.adf.zip

[dirkwhoffmann]

In the latest version, the address violation errors seem to be gone and so seem the crashes.

The game ends up in an infinite loop with the power led flashing.

P.S.: Paradroid was one of my favourite games on the C64 🤤.

[dirkwhoffmann]

Doesn't seem to work in SAE either. Maybe it's a copy-protected disk.

[dirkwhoffmann]

I've checked all Paradroid versions that are available on PlanetEmu:

They all work, including the intros:

This backs my hypothesis that the original file has copy-protection. Can I close for now?

[mithrendal]

This game actually looks very modern to me ... Should have better been named maybe Paradroid 2090 ? Because it was soo far ahead of time back then ... I would say you should close it...

[dirkwhoffmann]

I agree that graphics is really cool, but for me, the C64 version is more fun to play.