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Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« on: June 04, 2011, 05:14:21 AM »
Hello All,
When I use ADF2Disk to convert games or demos into real A600HD floppy disks, my Amiga can NOT read them. ADF2Disk reports that it has finished writing to disk, but when I boot from this newly created floppy, my A600HD bypasses it and boots directly back to WB. I can hear that it reads for couple of seconds from the floppy disk, but it just keep booting back to WB.

Why is the reason for this? I have 2.05 KICKSTART and I am running WB 2.1 on my A600HD. I am also using 1.4HD floppies (can't find DD floppies no more, although I had just ONE single DD, and I used that and still my A600 bypassed it and booted into WD instead of launching the game, or demo.)

Questions:
1) If most Amiga games are written for KICKSTART 1.3, then how come A1200 is touted as the best of the Amigas? What about 'big-box" Amiga systems, such as A2000, A3000, A4000? Could they run games/demos as good as an A500 with plain 1.3 KS?

2) Why my A600HD with 2.05 KS can NOT run these games?

3) Is there a better utility than ADF2Disk for converting ADF images back into real Amiga floppy disks?

4) How can I convert the .dms format games/demos (mostly demos) back into real Amiga floppy format to be played back on my A600HD?

Any help would be appreciated.  

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Re: Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2011, 07:33:35 AM »
"Out of curiosity, are the floppies set to bootable"

How can I make them bootable? Thanks.

Also, how can I re-align my floppy drive?
« Last Edit: June 04, 2011, 07:37:40 AM by CodeHunter »
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Re: Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2011, 07:57:37 AM »
I have downloaded and transferred DMS (actually it is called dms111.run) onto my CF card. When I run it, it unpacks this file, but I am not sure where it gets unpacked: I even use show ALL FILES, but I can not find the extracted files.
UPDATE: For some reason, DMS showed up and I tried to copy a DMS file onto a floppy, it copied to track 80, then I got a NOT A DOS DISK error. I am trying to FORMAT these floppies using X-Copy (using the option (D)OS) to see if I can get them to work.
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Re: Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2011, 08:17:45 AM »
Do you know why I get the "Not a DOS disk in device DF0" error? I even used X-COPY to format this floppy diskette and it even showed as a valid disk on my WB (I could see its name).
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Re: Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2011, 08:30:50 AM »
More UPDATE: OK, it seems to be that my floppy DRIVE has some sort issue: When I insert a floppy diskette, if I don't hear it click loud, then it won't boot the game/demo. If it does, then it will boot it correctly. How can I fix/clean/re-align it?

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Re: Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2011, 08:47:43 AM »
To Markus_Bieler

Thanks for the instructions, it indeed is correct and boots into an empty CLI box.
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