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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: whabang on March 16, 2008, 01:25:22 AM
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I'm trying to re-live some old memories by playing Walker with WinUAE, but I can't get the thing working. It's been loading for 10 minutes now. Using the stock A500 config.
Any suggestions?
The game doesn't hang, it keeps loading and loading. From what I can tell from WinUAE's display, it reads the same sectors over and over again.
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Maybe it's looking for those crazy copy protection bits. :-? Or was that just for the C=64?
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Yes, this does sound like either the copy protection failing, or perhaps errors on the disk/ADF.
I would suggest seeking out a WHDload version of the game, which will load significantly faster than from the ADFs.
Cheers,
James
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I rememeber that the loading times were very long on my Amiga 1200 without an accelerator. The main reason is that the data are stored in compressed form and the game has to decompress everything it loads.
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Hi,
I'm pretty sure the standard game version is hard drive installable, isn't it? I can't remember clearly how I did it, but I used to play this on my 030 A1200, and it loaded pretty quickly. I have never used WHDLoad, so it definitely wasn't installed that way. I may have just used floppies. My 030 card was very low end, so it doesn't take huuge processing capacity.
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I agree with Oliver, I always use my Walker disk, never try to whdload it.
On my not-that-powerful 030 it always load in relatively low time (~25 seconds).
But on my A500~600, it took much more time to load (~1 minute, not more than this).