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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: Scaleskin on September 04, 2004, 05:55:25 PM
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Hi, I am Scaleskin, and am obsessed with Amiga games, since it was the first ever machine I ever got my hands on and grew up playing the brilliant games on it...in fact I still play R-type which I first played about 15 years ago..
Anyway...I came across this site when searching for emulation stuff and thought I might as well join the community here...so Hi everyone!
Scaleskin.
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Welcome! Where you from? And what kind of Amiga do you have?
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I am English...Southampton at the moment.
We have an amiga 500 (and a ZX Spectrum somewhere, but thats not as good)...but i tend to play the games with WinUAE on my laptop most of the time..people tend to watch TV when I want to play amiga games..
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Welcome, welcome. Beer's in the fridge, toilet's upstairs on the right. ;-)
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Hi Scaleskin... Welcome to Amiga.org :-P
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Thanks...I'll probably start posting in other sections soon...I tend play amiga games quite a bit, and am playing around with HD games at the moment...trying to get them to work.
Anyway, I have always liked the amiga...may be a bit slow compared to modern systems..but the games were much harder than most modern games...and because I can't complete them winthin a few hours...I prefer them.
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Welcome,
Don't know if you are aware of http://www.back2roots.org/ Source of legal gaming stuff.
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Yeah..I am aware of it..as well as places like Aminet and the Nth Dimension coverdisk archive...I get most of my ADF images from there.
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Welcome :-)
Back2Roots have a nice HD games section. WHDLoad and JST are two things to go find out about - they allow HD installation of old floppy games, even under UAE it's nicer to double click an icon than go find that old floppy image ;-)
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Hiya and welcome to Amiga.org, hope you enjoy your stay :-)
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Willkommen
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Welcome. I think you should get an A1200 :-)
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Yeah..we were looking on ebay for them...but at the same time, the stuff we already have we can get stuff to get a HD put in etc..
I am trying to figure out how I can put the ADFs onto amiga floppies to play them on the amiga from my laptop...Trying to connect laptop to amiga...cant find the software..
Heres a question...How do I set my avatar here?
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Scaleskin wrote:
Yeah..we were looking on ebay for them...but at the same time, the stuff we already have we can get stuff to get a HD put in etc..
There's not much point putting a hard drive into an A500 because most games don't use the hard drive unless you get WHDload. An A1200 comes with a 44-pin mini IDE controller on the motherboard so you can use a laptop hard-drive in it.
I am trying to figure out how I can put the ADFs onto amiga floppies to play them on the amiga from my laptop...Trying to connect laptop to amiga...cant find the software..
AmigaForever 6.0 comes with software to link Amiga to PC.
Heres a question...How do I set my avatar here?
Click on "View Account" on the upper-left corner of the page, and click on the button "Avatar" at the top.
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SamuraiCrow wrote:
There's not much point putting a hard drive into an A500 because most games don't use the hard drive unless you get WHDload.
That's bulls**t! Most games will work on a HDD and
without using WHDLoad! You should do your homework properly.
:rtfm:
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Yeah ... you can use JST instead :-D
Seriously, the vast majority of games do need a 3rd party HD installer of some sort, even A1200 ones. WHDLoad is about the most comprehensive one, though it's made to work with originals so isn't so much use with all the ADF images found on Bach2Roots (almost all of them are taken from the 'cracked' ones as they tend to work better under UAE).
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Hmmm Boinghead... what kind of Amiga do you have?
Wouldn't be military spec by any chance would it? :lol:
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Sounds like we have another doommaster account here indeed...
@scaleskin:
Nevermind boinghead's unneccesary rude remark.
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odin wrote:
Sounds like we have another doommaster account here indeed...
Sounds like you had to much to drink...
and probably a Doomy trauma...
:pint: :crazy: :insane: :nervous:
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Hmmm Boinghead... what kind of Amiga do you have?
Wouldn't be military spec by any chance would it?
Yes! I have an A5000 rev.1.b with an MC68090/175Mhz,
AAA+ rev.1.4 Chipset, 512MB, 120GB HDD, DVD-RW.
:lol: :roflmao:
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Hmm definately not the doom master... this guy actually has a sense of humour :-D
Robert
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@Robert17
Thanks!
:-D
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I think some of you guys have a "Doomy trauma".
:crazy: :nervous:
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That's bulls**t! Most games will work on a HDD and
without using WHDLoad! You should do your homework properly.
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He's channeling Doomy!
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@FastRob+
Looks like you also suffering from a "Doomy trauma" !
:nervous:
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@bOiNgHeAd
IYHO is the Amiga 2000 series the best of the Amiga computers? ;)
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@TjLaZer
IYHO is the Amiga 2000 series the best of the Amiga computers?
No, It isn't. I know that's a trick question!
I'm NOT Doomy... (I think)
But if you all try hard enough, I'll soon turn
into Doomy!
:lol: :laughing:
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Hell, I'm not a moderator, but staying on topic keeps everyone happy :-)
As I recall, having a HD with summat like an A500 - I remember getting the A500-HD8+ Impact Series II back in '92 or whenever - means you can run games that run from Workbench from the HD.
As so many Amiga games had their own custom bootblock loaders, more often than not they are not HD installable. However, there are still a fair few that can be installed, such as Sim city for example (IIRC)
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Just replying to see how many posts I have these days. :-D
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Thanks, I will set avatar ASAP...and stop confusing me about Amiga HD stuff!!