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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: CodeHunter on June 07, 2011, 07:07:37 PM
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It is an Escom A1200, with CF as Hdd. Should I be concerned about its floppy drive's incompatibility with some games? I have an A600HD and for some reason, when I convert my .ADF games/demos into real Amiga floppy diskettes, most often that not, it can not play them back, or I get weird graphical glitches (mostly in demos). I hope that this A1200 can play them back with no issues. My WinUAE can play these same games/demos with no issue, so I know that they are not corrupted files.
Also is there a list of A1200 non-compatible games (A500 games that that are not compatible with A1200)?
Your input is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Go for WHDload, and there will be very little you can't do!
But yeah, many older 1.2/1.3 dependent games just won't work on a 1200 right off of the original (or pirated) floppy. Too many to make a list.
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Dang! Should I get an A500 instead then? I mean I like the idea of WHDLOAD, but I can do a similar thing on my PC using WinUAE. I love to use good ol' floppies and hear the clanky noise! Oh, well, I will get it, but I need to find an A500 as well!
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My experience is that games work more often than not.
If you still want the "classic" experience, get relokick and it'll sort out a lot of the rest.
A 1200 can play most 500 games, but nothing will make a 500 play an AGA game :)
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Dang! Should I get an A500 instead then?
For pre AGA software the A500 is the most compatible. Loads of games and demos were hard coded to use memory at $c00000. Which you can't work round unless you have an accelerator with an mmu.
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Also is there a list of A1200 non-compatible games (A500 games that that are not compatible with A1200)?
Your input is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
there is no such list
however the A1200 can play about 98% of the A500 games I calculate
you must use a convenient degrader like relokick 1.4
some old games even fail...they requires kick 1.2.....only will works there and even will fail on the A500 with kick 1.3
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@ CodeHunter
Out of some 5000 odd Amiga games I've yet to find one that couldn't be made to work on an A1200... :)
As you're already using adf's with WinUAE, you should have very few problems getting them to run on the A1200 with things like WHDLoad, JST and all the other degrader utils available... :)
You will find very,very few Amiga games that can't run on the A1200 and if you really want to you could even learn how write your own WHDLoad slave files.. :)
Suffice to say if using adf's then you should with a wee bit of time and patience get them all running on your A1200 no problem... :)
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I have yet to find a game that won't run on my A4000 either, but a lot won't play on my A2000 :D