Ten Thousand Questions. #453- "2.x roms and 1.3 games"

[RedWarrior]

Hi again! This is my first post since my A600 arrived (this morning!!), and trust me, there will be a lot of questions coming up on here... but I'm glad to have such a helpful forum at hand!

Ok... out of the box, powered up... nice clean keyboard.. damn noisy hard drive! (used to the silent A500, sans hd) ... Workbench loads fine... apparent lack of ANYTHING interesting on the hard-disk... former owner was really really boring...   Joystick bin-worthy.  Load Rebels megademo 2 from floppy... works fine.

Next test... load Lemmings... GURU MEDITATION... (repeatedly) ... Load Bubble Bobble... GURU MEDITATION...  not happy.

Speedball 2 worked, so did Gianna Sisters... but is this the wrath of Kickstart 2.1??  It's not the same kickstart as my 500 (1.3)... so how can I

a) make this thing play Lemmings and all other fun stuff

and b) make it play them from the hard-drive...

ok... there are a million more questions to come- but first priority: WHY WON'T IT LOAD LEMMINGS?

 (more importantly... how do I MAKE it play lemmings...!)

Thank you in advance for any help.

RedWarrior

[RedWarrior]

ok sweet... next question!

Just reading that there could possibly be an ADVANTAGE to 2.x roms- in the Atari ST thread someone said 2.x roms have built in cross-dos, and can read MS-DOS disks....

will this be at all useful with modern PCs? eg: can i use a floppy to transfer from my pc to the a600?

or are high-density disks not going to work...?

I will eventually try this  myself- but am at work now so if I can save time getting an answer on here- I can do more fun stuff with my new a600!

thanks

[RedWarrior]

Um... the only workbench disks I have are the ones for WB1.3 (ONE floppy)

WB 2.1 is on the hdd... will this PC0 thing be in there by default as part of the OS?  if not... a) where can i get it...

and b)
taping over the hole on a high density disk... will that make my PC floppy drive write the data differently? Do standard floppy drives adapt like that? or do they only take one kind of disk....?

Cheers, RW

[RedWarrior]

Wicked.  This is a ver exciting prospect... hope it works! I was thinking I'd have to stuff around with nullmodem cables etc between the PC and Amiga to move data...

so is it pretty straightforward to transfer adf files over to the a600? I know this topic has been raised a hundred times...  are there tutorials on here somewhere?

Thanks,
RW