WHD Load on an Amiga 1000??

[Matt_H]

I think WHDLoad requires Kickstart 2 or higher. Assuming you've got that as well, it'll probably work. Problem is that you'll be limited to games that require very small amounts of RAM - probably just a few releases from 1985-86 before 512k was commonplace. Even though you've got a full 512k, WHDLoad itself takes up some of it, leaving less than that for the game itself. Bottom line, you can probably run things that work on a stock (256k) A1000 and not much else.

[Matt_H]

I don't mean to beat a dead horse on this Amiga 1000 memory issue but here goes.  If I am running a game (floppy) that only has a 512kb requirement on a machine that has 512kb chip ram and 8mb fast ram, will the Amiga take advantage of the extra memory or will it ignore it and only use the 512 chip ram?  Just seeing if I will get any type of system performance / boost by installing fast ram.

Depends on the game. Some games take advantage of additional memory, some don't.