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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: TjLaZer on October 08, 2004, 04:30:33 PM

Title: WHDLoad or AmigaOS Rom Update?
Post by: TjLaZer on October 08, 2004, 04:30:33 PM
What is the deal?  WHDLoad seems to be very finicky.  When it works it works great, but on some systems it acts up.  Since I own a lot of Amigas I have used this on a lot of different platforms.  My latest is the 3000T.  I got finally running and was having some problem with about half the WHDLoad games I tried.  I narrowed it down to AmigaOS ROM Update.  If I left it out all the games ran fine. Anyone have any ideas?  

On a side note: I am going to try a new fresh install of AmigaOS 3.9 to see if that helps...  On another system (A1200 040) the ROM update slows down the HD so I have it removed there too.
Title: Re: WHDLoad or AmigaOS Rom Update?
Post by: Holley on October 08, 2004, 04:45:03 PM
Have you got an A1200 3.1 rom image in with the older ones?  I had problems with trying to use my A3000 image, which is a different revision.

Havn't had any problems with WHDLoad under OS3.9 since I sorted that out ...
Title: Re: WHDLoad or AmigaOS Rom Update?
Post by: Matt_H on October 08, 2004, 04:50:34 PM
WHDLoad worked fine on my 1200T w/ 3.9.2, and works fine on my 4000T w/ 3.9.2 (same harddrive, new home). I do find, though, that I need to set the NOCACHE and NOAUTOVEC tooltypes on almost everything.

What sort of problems are you experiencing?
Title: Re: WHDLoad or AmigaOS Rom Update?
Post by: x56h34 on October 08, 2004, 05:09:57 PM
WHDLoad works great, however depending on your Amiga and expansions installed you will need to change tooltypes.
For example if the tooltypes for game X were set to:

gamex.slave
PRELOAD
NOCACHE

...and it worked on your A1200 unit, that doesn't mean that it will work on your A3000T as well and you may have to change it to:

gamex.slave
PRELOAD
NOVBRMOVE
NOCACHE
NOAUTOVEC

...or remove all the NO tooltype lines altogether to make it work. You have to mix and match working tooltype lines sometimes to make a certain game work.