Sim Ant

[3583Bytes]

I am having issues running Sim Ant on my Amiga 2000 running Workbench 3.1.  It works on my A500 (1.3) but after I installed it on my A2000 it crashes shortly after the opening screen flashes for a second.

Does anyone one know if there is a compatibility issue with Sim Ant in WB 3.1?

Thanks

[ElPolloDiabl]

I remember it being hard to get working. I did play it fine on the 1200 though.

[Lizard]

You could try the WHDload installer: http://whdload.de/games/SimAnt.html

[Matt_H]

No issues for me on my A2000 on 3.1 and 030. What else do you have running (patches, commodities)?

WHDLoad should work, but I found it to be slooooooow for this game and prefer the "native" install.

[3583Bytes]

I think its my chip ram, I only have 512.  When I disable my wallpaper I get a bit further in the opening screen to the point where I have to press any key to continue.

I am running MUI and Class Act so I am sure those don't help either.

Very frustrating, I have 8MB or ram and I still can't run games because of Chip Ram.  I am this close of taking he KickStart 3.1 rom out of the A2000 and moving it to my A500.

Thanks

[paul1981]

I think its my chip ram, I only have 512.  When I disable my wallpaper I get a bit further in the opening screen to the point where I have to press any key to continue.

I am running MUI and Class Act so I am sure those don't help either.

Very frustrating, I have 8MB or ram and I still can't run games because of Chip Ram.  I am this close of taking he KickStart 3.1 rom out of the A2000 and moving it to my A500.

Thanks

Try changing your screenmode prefs to 2 colours temporarily in addition to clearing the wallpaper for windows, backdrop and workbench. This should free up some chip ram and hopefully run the game.

If that doesn't work, you could always boot with no startup-sequence and run the game from the shell.
If there's not enough chip ram still (even when booting with no startup-sequence) download and try this little proggy:

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/add36k

This will free up a further 36K of chipram (it will make the screen a narrow band and change the colour depth to 2 colours, but you should be able to see enough to type commands into the shell). This works from the Workbench too if you fancy a laugh. Hehe...

[3583Bytes]

Thanks I will try that.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I gave it a try. The low res version works fine, and it is not bad.
The hi-res version must be for AGA Amigas only. Nothing to do with chip ram.

[midway]

actually no, you need 1 MB chip ram and a ecs amiga, does not need aga. but without a flickerfixer its not playable and without a 68020 or more its much slower. Have fun !

[3583Bytes]

OK so I switched Workbench to 4 colors and that seemed to free up enough memory to run Sim Ant, thanks.  

I am guessing there is no software way to switch some of the 8MB ram to Chip ram? (For other games)

Thanks

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Your A2000 should support up to 1MB of chip ram on the motherboard (2MB if you get one of the 8375 "Megachip" expanders).  You may have to change a jumper or two around.

Or, I forget, are you the guy who posted a while back that their motherboard was damaged and couldn't be swapped over?  Or is it some rare A2000 German model?

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/megachip
http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=992

[3583Bytes]

Your A2000 should support up to 1MB of chip ram on the motherboard (2MB if you get one of the 8375 "Megachip" expanders). You may have to change a jumper or two around.

Or, I forget, are you the guy who posted a while back that their motherboard was damaged and couldn't be swapped over? Or is it some rare A2000 German model?

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/megachip
http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=992

I don't have a Megachip, are you telling me I can increase my chip ram using a jumper without one, or do I need a megachip for it to work?
 
 Thanks

[paul1981]

I don't have a Megachip, are you telling me I can increase my chip ram using a jumper without one, or do I need a megachip for it to work?
 
 Thanks

You'd need a Megachip.
Oops...you'll need a Megachip for 2MB. Possibly you could get 1MB of chip by replacing the Agnus with 1MB part and then change jumper settings but you'll have to ask an A2000 expert.

Check out this review of the Megachip:
http://www.amigareport.com/ar306/review2.html

Choices:
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/categorylist.aspx?se=megachip