Installing games on my 1200 HD

[bazza1975]

Hi folks,

Im a newbie in the amiga scene, dont have that much experience in this field, only thing i ever did was play games on my 500 many years and years ago. Now having bought a 1200 8mb ram and 80mb hd, yes a whole 80mb's i wanna install some games on it, i hear this should run smoother than with floppies. I dont want 100's of games so 80mb should do fine. Is whdload the best way to go? Are the games for this slightly modified, and made bigger and beter? I have purchased a PCMCIA ethernet network card kit from ebay a while back for this purpose.. Anybody have info for me?

cheers Baz

[Andeda]

Hi and welcome, i think that whdload is the way to go, with this software you can get almost every amiga game installed on your harddisk.
Good luck and have fun with your new a1200.

[motorollin]

bazza1975 wrote:
Is whdload the best way to go?

Yes.

bazza1975 wrote:
Are the games for this slightly modified, and made bigger and beter?

No. They're the original versions of the games. Sometimes they are patched with trainers or to remove copy protection, but the game itself will be identical.

bazza1975 wrote:
I have purchased a PCMCIA ethernet network card kit from ebay a while back for this purpose.. Anybody have info for me?

http://www.whdload.de/

Download and install WHDLoad itself and installers for whichever games you want to install.

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moto

[bazza1975]

Thanks for the replies :-)
What part does the pcmcia card play exactly, currently the 1200hd is installed with standard amiga software. How i get whdload to work exactly?

Sorry if this question has already been asked a 100 times already... :rtfm:

[motorollin]

Your use of the RTFM smiley is well placed... ;-)

The PCMCIA ethernet card can get your Amiga online so you can download software directly on to the Amiga, and also transfer files from your other computers (if you have any).

WHDLoad has an excellent manual, but basically you just install it by running its installer, then download individual installers from whdload.de for whichever games you want and then run their installers. Each one will prompt you for the game's floppies in turn and install them to your hard disk. Then you double click the installed game's icon to run it.

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moto

[bazza1975]

I know the icon is very well placed :-)
So the setup can be done with floppies on the 1200. Does it run on the existing amiga OS which is presently installed?
Get the amiga online, you mean connected to a pc?

[motorollin]

bazza1975 wrote:
So the setup can be done with floppies on the 1200.

Yes - the floppies are *required*.

bazza1975 wrote:
Does it run on the existing amiga OS which is presently installed?

Well I don't actually know what you have got installed :-) But since it's an A1200 I would assume at least 3.0, which is fine for WHDLoad.

bazza1975 wrote:
Get the amiga online, you mean connected to a pc?

To a PC, Mac or other Amiga using SMBFS (on Aminet - lets you connect to network drives to share files) and/or to the Internet.

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moto

[bazza1975]

Thanks, i can finally get started :-)

[motorollin]

Have fun :-D

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moto

[twizzle]

before you can install whdload you will need the installer ver43.3 from aminet, just copy the installer to your C:drawer
http://aminet.net/util/misc/Installer-43_3.lha

[ZeBeeDee]

With all the access WHDLoad is going to give you game wise, I think that 80mb hard-drive is on the verge of being swapped out for a bigger one soon  :lol:

[A6000]

I am not clear on one point, do you need the original disks, or can you download the games as well.

[NovaCoder]

A6000 wrote:
I am not clear on one point, do you need the original disks, or can you download the games as well.

If you have a downloaded ADF which is identical(ish) to the original floppy then it won't make a difference to WHDLOAD.  If you're really lucky you might even be able to find some complete WHDLOAD packs out there in good old cyberspace.

[kgwhdload]

Not really true...

The 'installation' of WHDLoad is essentially copying one file to C\

[bazza1975]

Will the pcmcia card be of any use in this process, seeing im working with a prehistoric floppy drive??