Installing games on my 1200 HD

[bazza1975]

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

[NovaCoder]

bazza1975 wrote:
Hi folks,

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

cheers Baz

If you're using the original floppy games and WHDLoad installs (as opposed to packs [install + game data]) then no, you do not need your PCMCIA network card.

What most people do is buy a Transfer kit (get the card at the same time) to transfer data easily between the PC and the Amiga.

You can even run WINUAE on the PC to test/setup programs (including the OS!) before transferring to the real thing.  This way your floppy drive is pretty much redundant :-D

[bazza1975]

Well dont own any original games, been a long time... The transfer kit would be the best option, so will probably be choosing for that option.. How would i set up the OS then?

cheers Baz

[ZeBeeDee]

Although I have no need for a transfer kit (DVD drive in my tower'ised A1200), I would presume full instructions would be provided.

At least I hope so lol

[rkauer]

 A very good approach to the WHDload problem is setting a winUAE in the peecee, then use it to make your WHD games, zip 'em (or better, lha 'em), save the lha archive onto a CF (for PCMCIA)or CD-RW (if you have a CD unit on your Amiga) to transfer the already installed game in da real thing. :idea:

[RMK305]

Good thread!

I've never used WHDload myself and was wondering how easy it is to install and install the games with it? Are you aware the games aree installed using it when running them, ie. does it come up with a requester or graphic etc when you load the game?

Thanks,

Robert

[ZeBeeDee]

WHDLoad comes with it's own installation package so you only really need to follow the on-screen instructions.

It's also very easy to install WHDLoad games ... just de-archive them onto the hard drive into their respective folder and that's it ... simple!  :-)

The games operate as if you are loading them from the original floppy disks. There's a minimal amount of loading time from the HD (as you'd expect), plus if the original is a multiple disk set then that's taken care of within WHDLoad itself.

Of course, there is a comprehensive FAQ on the WHDload website and failing that there's a wealth of WHDLoad experienced people here to ask if you get stuck.

[gklinger]

I can't resist restating the obvious: WHDLoad is brilliant. It makes everything so easy. As for all the people making slaves and downloadable packs of slaves (KG! is the man) and helping newcomers get WHDLoad working, cheers and beers to the lot of them.

[bazza1975]

Hi folks,

Im back again, now with a pcmcia cf-card kit, so now i copy all the whdload onto the cf-card and transfer it to the amiga right? Thing is the amiga wont recognise it seeing its another OS, whats the answer?

cheers Baz

[Flashlab]

OS is not important; filesystem is. Make sure the CF-card is FAT16 formatted (this is what Windows can read) and that your Amiga can read FAT16. If you bought the CF-card system from an Amiga dealer chances are that you already have the needed software for Workbench to mount the CF-card with FAT16 and read it on your Amiga.

[bazza1975]

Nope, there was no software with it, are there no tools i can download in order to format it in FAT-16? And after i have done this, what's next?

[Flashlab]

Just use the PC to format is FAT16.

Then look here. Download this and use a 720k floppy to get this to your Amiga; your Amiga can read these disks when you mount PC0: which is in your Devs/Storage drawer if you have a correctly installed WB on your HD.

This takes care of the filesystem. How to mount this CF-card I don't know unfortunately as I don't have the hardware. I use FTP with a network card for my transfer needs.

[bazza1975]

aah i never knew you could still format fat16 in xp...

Ok so then the floppy for the file system,,

then just a matter of mounting the cfcard, with the whdload files.. on the amiga OS.

There is a ADF-transferkit floppy supplied, so that will help.. was still in packet.



:idea:

[bazza1975]

Hi,

How do i open the programes i download on the pc (on a 720k disk) on the amiga... on 3.0. When i enter the disk, a df0:? icon appears. When i go to devs/dosdrivers. it appearsa cf0. I click this it says its already mounted.. cool.. but how do i actually open the disk and install fat.lha in order to access the cf-card....

cheers Baz

[taunusand]

You should start PC0
It is on your Storage disk.
You'll find in the drawer names Dosdrivers, like the one you found CF0 in. Copy it into Dosdrivers on your harddisk for future use :-)

When you start PC0 you should be able to read/write to PC formatted 720kb disks :-)

[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.