Installing games on my 1200 HD

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bazza1975 wrote:
Is whdload the best way to go?

Yes.

bazza1975 wrote:
Are the games for this slightly modified, and made bigger and beter?

No. They're the original versions of the games. Sometimes they are patched with trainers or to remove copy protection, but the game itself will be identical.

bazza1975 wrote:
I have purchased a PCMCIA ethernet network card kit from ebay a while back for this purpose.. Anybody have info for me?

http://www.whdload.de/

Download and install WHDLoad itself and installers for whichever games you want to install.

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moto

[motorollin]

Your use of the RTFM smiley is well placed... ;-)

The PCMCIA ethernet card can get your Amiga online so you can download software directly on to the Amiga, and also transfer files from your other computers (if you have any).

WHDLoad has an excellent manual, but basically you just install it by running its installer, then download individual installers from whdload.de for whichever games you want and then run their installers. Each one will prompt you for the game's floppies in turn and install them to your hard disk. Then you double click the installed game's icon to run it.

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moto

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bazza1975 wrote:
So the setup can be done with floppies on the 1200.

Yes - the floppies are *required*.

bazza1975 wrote:
Does it run on the existing amiga OS which is presently installed?

Well I don't actually know what you have got installed :-) But since it's an A1200 I would assume at least 3.0, which is fine for WHDLoad.

bazza1975 wrote:
Get the amiga online, you mean connected to a pc?

To a PC, Mac or other Amiga using SMBFS (on Aminet - lets you connect to network drives to share files) and/or to the Internet.

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moto

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Have fun :-D

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moto