WHDLoad on a 68010 CPU: Is It Possible??

[barney]

I know several people have said that a 68000 is too slow to run WHDLoad, and I agree with that.  I was curious though....is it possible to run it with a 68010?  I have used this CPU in the past and saw a slight speed increase on some games but I have never tried it with WHDLoad.  Has anybody ever tried it before.  If you have, please give me your results.  Thanks.

[barney]

Thanks for the info man.  Thats good news.  This opens up a whole new world for me.  I do have one more question for you.  I'm thinking about installing it on my Amiga 1000.  It only has 512k chip ram and will have 8mb fast ram.  Will WHDLoad still work, or will I have too little chip ram?  Thanks.

[barney]

Like you mentioned, on my Amiga 2000 with 3 way ROM selector, WHDLoad work with Kickstart 1.3 selected.  Strange but it does work fine.  Maybe I would have similar luck with My 1000.  I'll have to give it a try and see.

This is kind of off topic, but would having Fast Ram installed on an Amiga 1000 make a difference in playing games off floppy disks?  Is the computer able to cache the game in memory resulting in smoother game play and less disk swaps?  Thanks.

You'll be short on chip for many games, as games that demanded 1MB chip RAM in the Amiga 500 period were quite a lot. When a game needs ChipRam, it NEEDS ChipRam. Even if you get 128MB of fastram, you'll have just 512KB of ChipRam

I don't know much about the Amiga 1000, never seen one in person, maybe it's possible to fit 1MB of ChipRam... Other people can help you better with that.

The other BIG problem I see is that kickstart ROM on an Amiga 1000 will be 1.x. That's bad because Whdload won't work unless you softload (softboot?) into a 2.x or 3.x kickstart. But I believe I read about you already doing so in some other thread!

[barney]

What is your experience with WHDLoad and a 1.3 ROM?

A couple of years ago
I was going to set up my old A2000 1MB chip 8 MB fast + some kind of SCSI hard drive controller that maybe works or maybe doesn't as a WHDLoad arcade game center.. but I read somewhere (sounded very authoritative) that WHDLoad would not work on KS 1.3 so I gave up my idea and put my box of 4GB SCSI drives in the closet.

I got my Amiga 2000 to work with WHDLoad with KS 1.3.  I also got Workbench 3.1 to work with KS 1.3.  I wish I could tell you what I did to make it work but I can't.  It just works.

[barney]

I was thinking.  I wanted to install WHDLoad on my Amiga 1000 after I installed a hard drive and added memory.  Now I find out that only 512kb chip ram isn't sufficient enough for WHDLoad.  Now I am wondering whether adding ram to an Amiga 1000 is even feasable.  What would be the point?  Is there a way around the 512kb chip ram barrier on the 1000?

[barney]

What I would really like to do is install an Amiga 500 motherboard into an Amiga 1000 case.  That would definitely get around the 512kb barrier.  But somthing like that would be hard as hell to do.