The accelerator basically ramps up the amount of cpu clock cycles, scandoubler creates double the scanlines for doubled resolution i am not that knowledgable but is that correct? and what does the HxC do?
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here for info on a flicker fixer. I got one and I can now use my Amiga 600 on an LCD monitor or even my 50 inch plasma without issue. Be aware that you need the
A604 trapdoor expansion in order to get it to work on a 600. As for the accelerator...
Well I don't actually know enough on them to give you an accurate description. So I won't try to explain it. But I am sure someone with the technical knowledge will be able to explain how they work.
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HxC however is a floppy drive emulator that works on most retro computers. Essentially it reads a disk image, HFE format, from an SD card and then acts like a really floppy drive would have done. Clicks and skweals included. If your not too fussed about using physical media then this might be an option. It's pricey but compared to the price of the various bit you would need in order to play games via whdload it can be cheaper.
The accelerator card at Amigakit will be best to makes full use of WHDload since some of the games won't work without the additional memory on the card.
The Amiga 600 won't run AGA games.
Yup I learnt this the hard way. I tried running whdload on a pretty vanilla 600, just a 2mb trapdoor expansion, and ran into lots of issues. Some games worked, some would work then crash and others would refuse to load at all. Fitting an accelerator solved that by giving me 32mb of fast RAM along with the 2mb of trapdoor that came with the
A604 and the obvious CPU boost from the 25mhz 030.
Basically I would say it like this.
If your wanting to load games from a HDD and take advantage of whdload you
need and accelerator because your going to quickly run into brick walls. If your not too fussed about this then either stick to physical media or get an HxC and a 1gb SD card.
