Old Amiga 500/2000 games not working on A1200

[murple]

www.whdload.de fixes everything.

Also many games will work if you boot up into the Early Boot Menu and select OCS or ECS mode rather than AGA. If most of your games are old games made for OCS machines, I'm not at all surprised half of them won't work right for you if you just try to run them.

[murple]

Get an accelerator with RAM. If youre patient you can find one as cheap as $150 on ebay. If you're impatient, you can definitely get one under $250... but for an 030 paying $250 seems kinda silly. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck than a RAM card.

That said, AmigaKit still has the RAM boards, at least they offer them in their built-to-order Amiga 1200s. Ask them.

[murple]

WHDLoad is incredibly easy to use... dont know why the problems.

First you need the ROM images, either from Cloanto, made yourself, or from warez sites on the net. Install these in DEVS:Kickstarts, you'll want at least the A500 and A4000 (or 1200) ROMs (1.3 and 3.0). If you use the Cloanto ROMS make sure you also copy the rom.key to the Kickstarts dir.

You need to get the SKick package from Aminet and install the *.RTB files from it into DEVS:Kickstarts too.

Install WHDLoad, you really only need the user binaries unless youre going to make your own installs, then get WHDLoad-dev.

Thats basically it. Run any installers you want and stick in the game disk when asked. I dont see how it could be messed up if you follow the instructions. It took me less than 5 minutes to install WHDLoad and a few games.

What does your Kickstart dir look like?

[murple]

Were you using nonstandard/hacked ROMs? I followed the instructions and it worked on the first try. If you've got Cloanto's Amiga Forever, you can just use those. Failing that, any ROM image made from an Amiga 500 with the recommended AmiNet tool should work, I'd think. Specific programs may require specific ROMs, but WHDLoad itself shouldn't. If the program will run on the computer you got the ROM image from, it will run with that ROM and WHDLoad. I dont know if there's really that many versions of the Amiga 500 ROM. As far as I know there is only ONE version of the 1.3 ROM in Amiga 500s... but I have heard of hacked ROMs floating around which have been modified from the original image.

http://www.whdload.de/docs/en/need.html

[murple]

A YoutTube video of attempting to install SOTA would probably helpful. Considering all the problems you're having... assuming your hardware isn't damaged, you've got to be doing SOMETHING wrong. What version of WHDLoad did you install? How did you install it? Can you show us your ROM directory listing?

I used the SOTA from Spaceball's website, but I believe the WHDLoad installer is able to work with both versions.

With the floppies... did you boot ECS/no cache and go into workbench, then load the floppies? Im not sure that it works the same if you boot from floppy after using the early boot menu.