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Just purchased Amiga Forever... quick question
« on: April 09, 2005, 03:37:22 AM »
Hello everyone.  I'm an A1200 owner and I just purchased a copy of Amiga Forever.  All of my games have been stored over the years in .DMS format.  I have these files on my PC hard drive and would like to use them on my PC with the emulation software.  Could someone give me some quick tips on how to start?  I'm fairly certain I will need to convert the .DMS format to something else?  I know a little about the WHDLoad program, but would appreciate some guidance to... at the very least, hopefully some websites that might have valuable information for teaching me.  I'm not asking for someone to spoon feed me everything, but I'm not really sure where to start looking.  Thanks for your patience... I'll try not to be a nuisance.
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Re: Just purchased Amiga Forever... quick question
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2005, 04:13:56 AM »
Ok, so... I guess I've already learned that .DMS files are usable by the current version of WinUAE as is and I can just mount them as DF0: etc. and they show up in the AmigaOS.  Could someone confirm... something for me though... if a game is on two disks for instance and the disks are normally NDOS... is that when I would require a WHDLoad file to exist before I can use the game?  I really do appreciate your guys help and patience.  I am trying to figure this out as much as I can on my own at the same time.
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Re: Just purchased Amiga Forever... quick question
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2005, 05:34:37 AM »
Thanks Effy!  I've been messing around with it for about 3 hours now and have learned quite a bit.  Sorry for jumping the gun with my questions instead of trying things first.  I've learned that I can use my .DMS archives "as is" and when I boot I can just assign each archive to a floppy drive (i.e. DF0:) and boot directly as if I had the floppy in my actual Amiga floppy drive.  It hasn't worked with every game, but I am happy to see it work with most so far.  I've tried Alien 3, Secret of Monkey Island, All New World Of Lemmings, and Zool with success.  I'm just trying to prepare for the day when my A1200 won't turn on again.  Too many good memories to lose... now I just need to start moving my thousands floppy disks onto the PC!  :)
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