Eat The Whistle F.A.Q.

# Eat The Whistle FAQ

These are the Eat The Whistle Frequently Asked Questions, this document is mantained by Gabriele Greco, please mail him new FAQ entry and, if possible, the correct answer :)

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- Where can I get the ETW 1.2 patch?
- There will be future version of ETW?
- Penalties has strange problems...
- I'm unable to load a league I saved!
- It's possible to use Sensible teams with Eat The Whistle?
- Highlights sometimes crash my computer.
- Why ETW is shipped without printed manual?
- It's possible to install ETW-CD to the hard disk?
- Why is ETW so slow during the match loading?
- The game freezes for some time while it is loading the crowd samples from the CD...
- Eat The Whistle doesn't work in my 16/24bit workbench.
- Where I can find more info about ETW?
- I'm unable to play more than one match with each team in a league!

- Where can I get the ETW 1.2 patch?

  The ETW 1.2 patch is available in aminet in the directory game/patch, the archive name is ETW-CD12p.lha and the file length is about 60k. You can download the patch clicking here. You can find it also in the Hurricane Studios web site.

  Here are some of the 1.2 news:

  - Improved leagues support, now you can play national leagues!
  - AHI support.
  - New menu option: Reset current.
  - Linesmen are now on the field.
  - Optimized audio code.
  - Collision with peoples outside the pitch.

Here are some of the 1.1 news:

- New menu option: Golden Goal
- New option to play again a match without reloading.
- Added keyboard control (two different types, see manual)!
- Now ETW works correctly also in 16/24/32bit Workbenches!
- Now option Audio2Fast to speed up spoken comment/crowd loading.
- ASCII manual.
- Resolved problems in the "load league/cup" option.
- Resolved problems with penalty shoot-out.
- New menu option: Force SBuffer

- There will be future version of ETW?

  There will be at least another patch, since there are a few things that don't work yet as we want, maybe if the game sells enough copies that we'll release a 98/99 version with a lot of new features. Anyway check always Aminet for news about ETW.

- Penalties has strange problems...

  Get ETW 1.2 patch.

- I'm unable to load a league I saved!

  Get ETW 1.2 patch, the bug was in the load routine, so your saved league is not lost.

- It's possible to use Sensible teams with Eat The Whistle?

  YES, the conversion tool is available HERE and in aminet, it's distributed with source code!

- Highlights sometimes crash my computer.

  The highlight viewing code is not yet totally bug free, since ETW has a LOT of options it's quite difficult for the viewing code to recreate exactly the original situation so it may fail, if you have an highlight that crashes your machine send it to me, it will be useful to make finally the highlight code totally bug free!

- Why ETW is shipped without printed manual?

  We gave the ASCII manual to the distributor months before the CD print, but for some technical delays the printed manual hasn't be placed in the CDs, maybe if ETW will be reprinted the new CDs will have it :) Anyway the 1.2 patch is distributed with the ASCII version of the manual, you can find it also here.

- It's possible to install ETW-CD to the hard disk?

  YES, simply make a drawer and copy the whole contents of the CD-ROM to the drawer, then you can delete the files that you don't need, for instance the intro/#?.anim if you don't want to see the game intros and the spoken comment languages that you don't need (in the speak directory). You can also delete the developer directory if you are not intrested in the developer tools! The 1.2 update script allows also to do a complete installation manually.

- Why is ETW so slow during the match loading?

  Because to work in a system friendly way it has to convert every player image to the native screen display format (550*4 for the players, black and whites, 200 for the refree, 300 for the goalkeepers...), this process can be speeded up a lot if you own a graphics card or CGX-AGA with PLANES2FAST enabled. ETW 1.1+ has an option to play the same friendly match more times without having to reload everything.

- The game freezes for some time while it is loading the crowd samples from the CD...

  Probably you have an ATAPI CD-Rom that does CPU transfer instead of DMA ones, to solve this install the game to the HD, if you have upgraded ETW to 1.1+ you can also try the AUDIO TO FAST option that copies the crowd samples / spoken comment to RAM before the start of the game.

- Eat The Whistle doesn't work in my 16/24bit workbench.

  ETW 1.0 was incompatible with the 16/24bit CGX modes (but works correctly with P96 ones), the 1.1+ solves this, provided you have cgxsystem.library 41.20 or newer (the older ones had a bug on the chunky->true color blitting routine.

- Where I can find more info about ETW?

  If you don't own ETW you can get a demo of it in Aminet, the demo is placed in the directory game/demo and it's called ETW_DEMO.lha (600k), click here to download it from this page!.

  You can buy ETW through Epic Marketing web site or at the follwing addresses (maybe also from your nearest amiga store):

  Germany:
  Epic Marketing
  Hirschauer Str. 9
  72070 Tuebingen
  07071/400492

  UK:
  Epic Marketing
  BSS House-Area 50
  Cheney Manor
  Swindon, Wilts
  01793/432176

  You can find the latest official patches to ETW in Aminet in the directory game/patch (latest is V1.2) or get it here!

  ETW related sites:

  - Hurricane Studios WEB site
  - Gabriele Greco WEB site

  ETW E-Mail:

  - Gabriele Greco (code)
  - Daniele Caramaschi (graphics)
  - Thomas Steiding (marketing)

- I'm unable to play more than one match with each team in a league!

  Get ETW 1.2 patch.