+remowilliams Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 (edited) Does anyone have the manual for Omnitrend's Universe? My original is long, long gone - and I used to have a text printout in a binder, but it seems that too has disappeared. I've been looking for this for a few years now, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! Edited July 17, 2005 by remowilliams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 If I recall, don't you actually HAVE to have the manual to play the game? It would randomly request you to enter a word from a particular page/sentence to start the game? Curt Does anyone have the manual for Omnitrend's Universe. My original is long, long gone - and I used to have a text printout in a binder, but it seems that too has disappeared. I've been looking for this for a few years now, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated! 893048[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 If I recall, don't you actually HAVE to have the manual to play the game? It would randomly request you to enter a word from a particular page/sentence to start the game? Curt No, you don't need it for any particular copy protection. But it has a wealth of info on planets, ships, weapons, cargos etc... Universe II and III do have "word" copy protection, but they are on the ST, and those manuals I have. I can't believe I lost it. Twice no less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrodegang Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Manual? Check Atarimania. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 Manual? Check Atarimania. 893109[/snapback] Thanks - seems they now have it! Only problem is when I print the scans they look awful. Looks like they were grayscale scanned instead of B&W. I don't know any easy way to clean that up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Only problem is when I print the scans they look awful. Looks like they were grayscale scanned instead of B&W. I don't know any easy way to clean that up 893196[/snapback] It is a pity that it is in jpeg format. There is lot of compress artefacts. It is very hard (maybe impossible) to rid of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 It is a pity that it is in jpeg format. There is lot of compress artefacts. It is very hard (maybe impossible) to rid of them 893206[/snapback] Yeah, I'm no expert - but what I've tried so far isn't cleaning up the mess. Maybe I'll try passing it through OCR and see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 I managed to clean the noise out of the non text page sections, and enhance the text contrast. While not perfect (noise still remains in text blocks), it looks far better when printed now. I also PDFed it (~4.5MB) In case anyone other than me cares - PM me and I'll send you a copy if you want one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Omnitrend is still in business: http://www.omnitrend.com/ And Universe programmer Tom Carbone is still the owner/operator of the company. You can contact him at support@omnitrend.com and see if he still has an electronic copy of the original document. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 (edited) Omnitrend is still in business: http://www.omnitrend.com/ And Universe programmer Tom Carbone is still the owner/operator of the company. You can contact him at support@omnitrend.com and see if he still has an electronic copy of the original document. Bill 893850[/snapback] You are quite correct - amazingly Omnitrend is still around. And they have NOS copies of the following games: Universe I: Atari XE/XL, PC, and Apple // Universe II: PC, ST, and Amiga Universe III: Atari ST Breach: PC Campaign Disk: PC Breach 2: ST, Amiga, or PC Paladin: PC or ST Paladin Quest Disk: PC or ST Paladin 2: Amiga or PC Rules of Engagement I: Amiga or PC Rules of Engagement II: PC Prices are original list (i.e.): Universe I $69.95 Universe 3 $59.95 Breach 2 $59.95 Rules of Engagement $69.95 Edited July 22, 2005 by remowilliams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 remowilliams You are quite correct - amazingly Omnitrend is still around. And they have NOS copies of the following games: How did you find out about the NOS copies? Did you contact Tom? Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 How did you find out about the NOS copies? Did you contact Tom? Bill 912912[/snapback] Yes, I contacted Tom directly. He was kind enough to look through his storage and find everything I was looking for. When one of my disks was bad from bit rot, he was nice enough to read one of his copies and send it to me as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Has anyone gotten Universe to work under Atari800WinPLus using multiple disk drives? I can't seem to get it to use two drives. And these game is a pain in the ass with just one drive. Thanks Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 Only the "newer" 1.3 version of Universe supports two drives. The original release version does not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 I tried both the version in the Holmes collection and the version at Atarimania. The Holmes collection version doesn't seem to support two drives. The version at Atarimania does seem to support two drives, but when I try to create a player disk, the format always fails. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Only the "newer" 1.3 version of Universe supports two drives. The original release version does not. I've tried Universe v.1.1 from the Holmes cd collection and Universe v.1.2 from atarimania and as stated above neither work with multiple drives under Atari800WinPlus. Does anyone have the disk images for Universe v.1.3 or later for the Atari? Thanks Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Does anyone have the "Complete Products Guide" add-in to Universe? Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resleeved Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Only the "newer" 1.3 version of Universe supports two drives. The original release version does not. I've tried Universe v.1.1 from the Holmes cd collection and Universe v.1.2 from atarimania and as stated above neither work with multiple drives under Atari800WinPlus. Does anyone have the disk images for Universe v.1.3 or later for the Atari? Thanks Bill 964017[/snapback] Hate to disagree with remowilliams, as I benefited greatly from his efforts on the manual, but I was able to run v1.2 from atarimania with two disks without any problem. As for formatting the player disk, you have to use single density format. If you still can't get it to format, I attached a player disk for you, Captain Bill of the Lange's Lounge. It is ship #1, the ZM-110 or whatever. Don't forget to hold down Start and Enter for two disk play on the Flight disks (again, courtesy of remo's manual efforts). universe_player_bill.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruiser Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Anyone know where I can get the 1.3 version of Universe to run on an emulator? I thinkI have version 1.2, and I have an apparent normal problem with the sublight drive. I can run the scan, and apparently it'll move the ship, but then it locks up. Luckily it appears also to write the move to the player disk, because if I reboot flight 1 the move will be there, or at elast so far it has. Any help is appreciated, and I already trned of the SIO patch on Atari800Win PLus 4.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahclem Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Anyone know where I can get the 1.3 version of Universe to run on an emulator? I thinkI have version 1.2, and I have an apparent normal problem with the sublight drive. I can run the scan, and apparently it'll move the ship, but then it locks up. Luckily it appears also to write the move to the player disk, because if I reboot flight 1 the move will be there, or at elast so far it has. Any help is appreciated, and I already trned of the SIO patch on Atari800Win PLus 4.0. I had the same problem. Turning off the SIO patch seemed to work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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