Installing games on my 1200 HD

[rkauer]

 You need to mount the PC0: driver.

 It is in the Storage/Dosdrivers drawer. Open the drawer and double-click the icon.

 After this steps the dos-formatted floppy icon will show on the Workbench screen.

 Note doing the double-click thing just mount the driver for this time. If you want to be permanently able to access pc-formatted floppies you need to move the PC0: icon from the Storage/Dosdrivers to DEVS/Dosdrivers. Then every time the Amiga boots the driver/mount-file will be already available.

[bazza1975]

I found pc0 and started it,

then another icon appeared underneath df0:, its called no name, when i click on it a window opens but its empty :-?

[taunusand]

Hold right mouse button, select "window" then "show" and then "all files"
That should do it :-)

It is because that there are no ".info" (icon) file attached to the files on the disk.

Diskmaster or DirOpus would be a great help for you ;-)

[bazza1975]

Affirmative! i see them no :-)  :-)

Now on the floppy i have fat.lha , which i think i need in order to see the cf-card contents,, but when i click it says "enter  command arguments" and then its not an executable.......?

How do you install files on the amiga?

no setup.exe to be found :-)

[bazza1975]

Ok yeah right,,,

lha is the compression program, so copy lha into c:
then run it by typing lha x {location of lha} {destination}.

So for those of you with the same problem i had try this.

[meega]

bazza1975 wrote:
Hi folks,

...Now having bought a 1200 8mb ram and 80mb hd...

Caution: 8MB fast ram might cause conflicts with PCMCIA use - they share the same address range unless there is extra logic to circumvent the problem. 4MB does not conflict and is still enough for most games.

[bazza1975]

What would happen if there was a conflict?

Can i change it to 4mb, in the OS itself?

Can i install whdload + games on the cf-card thus avoiding using the HD altogether...?

[ZeBeeDee]

Don't worry ... as long as you don't plug anything into the PCMCIA slot then there will be no conflict.

Install the games to the HD as per usual and happy gaming!  :-)

[bazza1975]

I am Finally playing stealth fighter on whdload, it only way i can run it is by installing whdload on the ramdisk everytime, and then copy stealth to the ramdisk also (seein i still get errors when trying to install it on the HD)but..... i can't save the game, i have entered a formated floppy into the drive, but seeing its a whdload game it doesnt  save the game. This is vital to this game otherwise its pretty useless.. anyone???

[Flashlab]

WHDLoad will fix the problem of saving the game on HD, but you need to install it there first. What are the problems with the HD installation? If it works on RAM: it should be the same for your HD.

[bazza1975]

Nope still doesnt work on the HD, i have the workbench, where c: can be found, this volume is full, so i try to install on HD1: here there is space left, it installs all the files there, but then when i copy games into the whdload directory, they wont startup, then it say "cant find WHDload tool".

I have also unpacked "installer ver 43.3" into c: and hd1:
Still noluck :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o

[Flashlab]

Make sure the whdload executable is in the C drawer of the disk you booted from and that the icon you use to launch the game has WHDLoad as the default tool in the icon information menu. This menu can be opened by clicking the icon once and then select Icons and then Information from the right mouse button menu.

[bazza1975]

Ive just make a mistake, ive changed my c: drive size, and now the whole lot is gone... how do i install wb3.0 to the hd? ive got the 4 disks...help!!

[Flashlab]

So I reckon you don't have the install disk then. In that case just copy the contents of all disks to the HD root drawer. Make sure you copy all files and not just icons when you use Workbench.

In your case I would just make one partition of 80mb (sure you don't want a bigger HD; I use several gigabytes already); make sure it's bootable.

[bazza1975]

Thanks, it works, the whole problem was that the partition was only 8mb!!

Im mising some cool stuff i used to have though like Opus :-(  :-(  :-(  :-(

[Flashlab]

You can find a lot of Amiga software on Aminet.