Problems whit games on an A1200

[coldfish]

by keropi

games and a1200???

the BEST solution by far:

a 030 accelerator with 8+ MB FAST RAM
OS 3.1+ (3.9 preffered)
HD 4+ GB
register WHDLOAD

then you will be able to play games with ease , no floppies, no loading times etc...
all other ways just are not worth the time/effort, this is 2006 and whdload is here...

I had that configuration except the HD was 2GB - '030 @ 40Mhz - 16Mb; and while it was good to see my A1200 run older games properly and boot them from HD, you still have to hope there is a patch specific to the game you want to run and that your disks are compatable with the patch (no cracked copies), buying Amiga originals is not only expensive in many cases, but also very difficult to find in 2006.  Having been there and done that I can strongly suggest...

the BEST solution by far:

WinUAE

simple.

[coldfish]

@Hyperspeed

Anyone reccomending UAE over a REAL Amiga with WHDLoad is going to get a boot in the testiculae!

:-D LOL! Consider me booted, however I've tried both methods and have formed an -informed- opinion.

For simplicity, reliability, compatability, value and versatility WinUAE wins easily by a frikken landslide!!!

For those who -want- to spend their money and time tracking down a mouldy old legit copy of a game, and then spend some more time looking for the WHD patch, and then some cash on regestering WHDload so they can play 15 year old games without a stupid timed spash screen, and then spend some more time installing the game on their HD only to find that floppy #8 is horribly corrupted, WHD wins.

...and I didnt even mention, WHDload bugs & limitations, having to mess around with Tooltypes, PAL/NTSC issues, unsupported-hardware issues, bah!

enjoy.  :-P  

[coldfish]

Father Jack: Feck Arse! ;o)

A few years back I would've agreed with everything you say.  Now however, its just easier(+++) to get Amiga games up and running on WinUAE.  

You dont have to worry about corrupted floppies or aging floppy drives.  Original Amiga floppies are well past their use by date, so you cant depend on them at all as backups.  Getting OCS/ECS games to work accurately on an AGA Amiga can be a real P in the A.  In light of all this, the emulation movement has probably done more for data preservation than all the mad floppy collectors out there put together.  At least in ADF form the data can be easily stored and duplicated.

I have several machines with WinUAE, a Compaq laptop running AIAB, a MAME arcade machine with a genuine 51cm arcade CRT at 15kHz and a small HTPC which plays through a standard TV or through a 5" handheld LCD/Joypad I've built.