WHDLOAD and expanded memory

[Angus]

The important thing is what hardware your friend has. If he has an A1200 for example, then he might do better trying to get an 030 accelerator for it, and adding some memory to that. That would give him a very useful machine, and very good for WHDLoad. The 040 is not nearly as compatible as the 030.

He could do a lot worse than keeping an eye out on Ebay for this kind of thing, or if he wants to buy new probably amigakit.com.

[Angus]

darksun9210 wrote:
WHDLoad doesn't have any problems running with this much ram. infact, the more the better, as you can then tell WHDLoad to precache all the game data into memory, making WHDLoad games run much faster with regard to loading times.

And if you are partial to 3D games, flight-sims etc, quite often the patcher will manage to let the game use fast memory and caches, so that the game runs more smoothly than it ever did on the original hardware. Which means that some of those games that crawled on an A500, suddenly come into their own over a decade later. Its almost like a new game has been released - or liberated.  

How cool is that?!