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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: fishy_fiz on November 03, 2011, 09:46:54 AM

Title: assign df0: to a harddrive path?
Post by: fishy_fiz on November 03, 2011, 09:46:54 AM

Can anyone tell me please how to dismount df0: and assign it to a path on harddrive? Is this even possible?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: assign df0: to a harddrive path?
Post by: zipper on November 03, 2011, 09:58:21 AM

I think some game  did work from HD with that trick - assign DF0: dismount and then assign DF0: to the games install path. But it's a rarity I think. Some games can  be assigned by the disk names - for example F1GP - but it has an installer, too.

Title: Re: assign df0: to a harddrive path?
Post by: Daedalus on November 03, 2011, 10:25:02 AM

Many games support multiple floppy drives, and so will access the disk based on its name rather than the drive it's in. These games might work if you create assigns for the names of the disks instead. But many games are hardcoded with the floppy code, and even reassigning DF0: won't work. As zipper said though, any device can be dismounted using the Assign command as follows:

Assign DF0: DISMOUNT


Years ago I wrote a simple program to read the directories in the drawer it's in and create assigns for each one. It was very simple, but did work for a good few games. I must dig it up...

Title: Re: assign df0: to a harddrive path?
Post by: fishy_fiz on November 03, 2011, 11:11:02 AM

Thanks guys, that did the trick. The software I was using was hardcoded to use "df0:", but simply dismounting df0: and then assigning it to the harddrive path did the job :)