here's a problem...games won't load from hard drive

[McVenco]

PaperMario wrote:
I'm sure slamtilt and pinball illusions only need basic 2 megs and aga chipsets in order to run properly.

True, when you run it from floppy disk. If you run it from harddisk it throws much more stuff into memory at once.
WHDLoad can be helpful here.

I would also recommend a clean WB install since ~750k Chip RAM free after starting WB is VERY bad, there's probably a lot of junk loaded at startup.

Finally: you should really try to find some extra memory (as stated above). Although a 030 board isn't really necessary, it will give you a lot of pleasure in running your machine. I have got a Blizzard 1220/4 in one of my A1200s, which has 4MB of FastRAM and a 68020 at 28 MHz (there's also room for an FPU), which gives it a very comfortable increase in speed.

[McVenco]

PaperMario wrote:
well that makes me curious - why Slamtilt and Pinball Illusions won't load from my floppy disks then?
I have them them on originals, booting the system with the floppies inside, and everything works - up to the point where I'm selecting a table, then the system asks for changing the disk, and when game supposed to load(either slamtilt or illusions), once again ask me for a 1st disk, and game goes back to wb, saying that system ran out of memory or the tables are missing(which is not posibble), because both games are perfectly fine, even running them both from floppies causes problems with memory which is just mind-blowing ^_~
and I still can't get them to work...

Are you booting to WB first, and then running them from floppy disk, or are you booting from floppy disk? If you boot them straight from disk, there should not be a memory problem; Slamtilt always worked fine on a non-expanded (no harddisk as well) A1200 by me.

Try going to the early startup menu, disable all drives except DF0: and boot it up.

If it still fails then you must have another problem. Maybe try removing the harddrive?