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Offline Cammy

Re: A500 and games (not working)
« on: July 02, 2012, 07:35:23 PM »
Some games need the full 1MB RAM and refuse to work when DF1 and DF2 are plugged in. Have you tried running those games without any external floppy drives, which each require a small amount of memory for mounting and buffers?
A1200 030@28Mhz/2MB+32MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB/4-Way Clockport Expander/IndivisionAGA/PCMCIA NIC
A1200 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/FPU/RTC/KS3.0/IDE-CF+2GB/S-Video
CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
A500 000@7Mhz/512kB+512kB/ROM Switcher/KS3.1+1.3/S-Video

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Offline Cammy

Re: A500 and games (not working)
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 02:35:54 PM »
If your A500 has the original floppy drive inside you won't have a problem reading past track 82. I think it was mainly the later A1200s which were burdoned with crappy disk drives.

I'm sorry for asking the obvious a lot, but have you given your disk drive heads a clean? I have inherited around 10 A500s as well as other Amigas over the years and every single one of them had problems reading disks before I put a floppy drive cleaning kit through them, which fixed them all. You can get these on eBay or from a local computer supplies or stationary shop if you're lucky. They look like a floppy disk with a white pad inside them, and you put some drops of cleaning fluid in them before running it through the drive for half a minute or so. With the Amiga, just keep rebooting after it tries reading the disk, and do it about 20 times so it has a good scrub.
A1200 030@28Mhz/2MB+32MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB/4-Way Clockport Expander/IndivisionAGA/PCMCIA NIC
A1200 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/FPU/RTC/KS3.0/IDE-CF+2GB/S-Video
CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
A500 000@7Mhz/512kB+512kB/ROM Switcher/KS3.1+1.3/S-Video

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