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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: EdKing on September 10, 2004, 03:43:15 AM

Title: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: EdKing on September 10, 2004, 03:43:15 AM
Ahhhh, life is good. I finaly got my MegaChip 2000 repaired and working, nice to have 2meg Chip on my 2000, and I started using WHDLoad Now I can stop turning my machine on and off to switch ROMs and CPUs to get my games to work. It's nice to be able to play Lemmings and CannonFodder (2 of my favorite games) from the HD, without even having to reboot. I just have to learn to write modules so I can install some of my games I couldn't find modules for.

Ahhhh, life is good.

Ed King
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 03:52:15 AM
Good to hear.
And one more post and you will have hit 100 posts
So here's a pre-emptive
"Woooohooo! :-) :pint:!

P.S. Did you get some WB2.1 disks in the end?
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: TjLaZer on September 10, 2004, 04:47:37 AM
Ahhh nothing like a nice purrrring Amiga computer huh?

I also would like to learn how to do WHDLoad installs.  I have done some hack installs by using a different installer for a different game and it works. lol  I made a Mach3 install.
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: adz on September 10, 2004, 05:17:36 AM
Ahh...Cannon Fodder, such a cool game, and its intro is pretty good too, used to spend hours and hours playing that. Might have to look into WHDLoad, although a couple of people have told me its a tad bit tricky, I wonder how it would go with a game like Pinball Fantasies where you get a different menu for each of the course disks.
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: gizz72 on September 10, 2004, 05:27:13 AM
Greetings,

Quote

Ahhhh, life is good.


@EdKing

Likewise... :pint:

I used to struggle a floppy based system with my plain vanilla A500. Since the A1200 and HDD, life is good. It got better when I had my IDEFix. :-D

WHDload made it much better to insatll all them games floppy based. Cheers!! :pint:

What do you know it's Friday too.. :pint:

Regards,

Gizz

Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: mrescher on September 10, 2004, 05:28:49 AM
Hey all

I also have been a bit daunted by the WHDLoad docs, and VERY daunted by the authors comment that it's only really possible to do 25 installs a year!

I'm a 'competent' programmer though, with a definate interest to get some of my classics loadable - especially those originals that can't be copied floppy to floppy.  If I pull any miracles Amiga.org will be the first to know

McE
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: jjans on September 10, 2004, 05:54:35 AM
I would really like to be able see a WHDInstall for Harpoon. Do you think any of you guys could develop one?

This is the game I miss the most due to upgrading to 3.1 ROMS, and not being able to use SKICK to load the old 1.3 ROMS.
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: adz on September 10, 2004, 06:05:32 AM
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jjans wrote:
I would really like to be able see a WHDInstall for Harpoon. Do you think any of you guys could develop one?

This is the game I miss the most due to upgrading to 3.1 ROMS, and not being able to use SKICK to load the old 1.3 ROMS.


Thats one game I'm sorry I never got, I always wanted to have a go at that. Strike Fleet and Pegasos were pretty good naval sims as well.
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: TjLaZer on September 10, 2004, 06:25:30 AM
I would like to see one for Fantasic Voyage!!! Anyone?
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: jjans on September 10, 2004, 06:27:11 AM
I see that there already is a Harpoon WHDLoad Install.
Harpoon.lha (http://www.whdload.de/games/Harpoon.html)

I should have looked before! (dummy...) :-?

:adz I think I may have another original Harpoon. I know I have 2 sets of original floppies for sure. I may have to dig around for the manual, and I'm sure I have an original box as well.

Let me know if your interested.
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: gizz72 on September 10, 2004, 06:39:37 AM
Greetings,

Harpoon? Is that the game with small frigate class ships that has missions situated on the Persian Gulf? You'll need a harpoon missle to get rid of others like you(that's why it's called Harpoon)?

If so, I recall playing that game on my C=64(unless I'm wrong). Cool graphics! I miss that version. :lol:

-edit-
Oh dirtbag!:oops: I remember now! I'm talking about P.H.M Pegasus! That's one awesome game on the C64 that I miss.
-edit-

Regards,

Gizz
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: jjans on September 10, 2004, 06:42:40 AM
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TjLaZer wrote:
I would like to see one for Fantasic Voyage!!! Anyone?


I see the CD32 version is currently in progress: WHDLoad Support (http://www.whdload.de/)
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: adz on September 10, 2004, 06:48:46 AM
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adz I think I may have another original Harpoon. I know I have 2 sets of original floppies for sure. I may have to dig around for the manual, and I'm sure I have an original box as well.

Let me know if your interested.


I'll keep that in mind, I'm a tad reluctant because of the shipping factor (can be quite pricey even for small items), I might try and track down a local copy, but thanks for offering :-)
Title: Re: looking for Harpoon WHD Install
Post by: jjans on September 10, 2004, 08:16:43 AM
Quote

gizz72 wrote:
Greetings,

Harpoon? Is that the game with small frigate class ships that has missions situated on the Persian Gulf?  :lol:

Gizz


Here is a good description of the game HarpoonHQ (http://www.harpoonhq.com/)

I got it running! Happy days are here again!!!
Crap I gotta go to work tommorow!!!
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: EdKing on September 10, 2004, 12:51:30 PM
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Did you get some WB2.1 disks in the end?


I got copies from DoomMaster, I have put the originals on the back burner for now,
I was having troubles with WB3.1 (resolved now) and wanted to try WB2.1. I will
order a set eventually, just to add to my collection (I have originals for 1.3,
2.04, and 3.1).

I would like to see a WHDload for the original Gunship, as well as for the rest of
the AD&D games (Pool of Radience, Death Kinghts of Krynn, etc.)

Ed King
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: blompcube on September 14, 2004, 06:43:08 PM
i have an amiga 500plus. does anyone know the difference between 500 and 500plus? i know the keyboard layout is a tiny bit different, but what else?
Title: Re: Life is good in my little corner of AmigaLand
Post by: x56h34 on September 14, 2004, 06:48:44 PM
Here's how A500+ differs from reguilar A500:

- revision 8 motherboard
- 1MB chip ram on-board
- trap-door expansion enables upgrade to another MB of chip ram (A500+ comes with 2MB capable Agnus)
- on-board clock battery (the leaky kind)