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Title: How does assigns work?
Post by: lauri.lotvonen on October 29, 2011, 06:25:30 PM

Hi.

Im trying to get lion king (:)) to work on my CD32.
Is there a way that I could copy all of the 4 disks to a drawer on HD and then assign the the floppys to the HD's "lionking" drawer ?

So that when the game tries to load data from DF0: it would read the same data from the HD's "lionking" drawer?

I did this with Duck Tales and it worked fine with the assign command.
But there was some ".as" files located on the Duck Tales disks.
Do these have anything to do with the assign commands?

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: Zac67 on October 29, 2011, 06:54:56 PM

Quote from: lauri.lotvonen;665695

But there was some ".as" files located on the Duck Tales disks.
Do these have anything to do with the assign commands?

No.
Possibly it uses some other way of recognizing disks. Usually, just copying everything into one directory (several if filename collisions occur) and ASSIGNing all the disk labels to that directory (or the appropriate one for several) works fine.

Dumbass routines that don't check for DISK1:filename, DISK2:filename but use a DF0:disk1file, DF0:disk2file scheme won't work with multiple floppy drives nor HDD nor anything else. You might get around that by killing DF0: and assigning it to the HDD folder - but any copy protection check will make all this futile.

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: fishy_fiz on October 29, 2011, 07:34:42 PM

Actually, speaking of assigns, can anyone tell me please if its possible to hide them from a file requestor Window(OS3.9)? I have quite a few and it looks too untidy for my liking. Thanks.

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: Matt_H on October 29, 2011, 08:45:10 PM

There's always WHDLoad (http://whdload.de/games/LionKing.html) for hard disk installs.

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: Piru on October 29, 2011, 09:29:32 PM

Quote from: fishy_fiz;665712

Actually, speaking of assigns, can anyone tell me please if its possible to hide them from a file requestor Window(OS3.9)?

Assign DEFER will do the trick.

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: lauri.lotvonen on October 30, 2011, 11:12:43 AM

Quote from: Matt_H;665718

There's always WHDLoad (http://whdload.de/games/LionKing.html) for hard disk installs.

Wont work with just 2mb chip ram.

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: fishy_fiz on October 30, 2011, 11:13:31 AM

@Piru

Ah, cool, thanks :)

Title: Re: How does assigns work?
Post by: Lizard on October 30, 2011, 12:15:59 PM

You could try the special cd32 version of whdload together with the lionking install:

http://whdload.de/docs/en/cd32.html