Installing games on my 1200 HD

[bazza1975]

Hi folks,

Im a newbie in the amiga scene, dont have that much experience in this field, only thing i ever did was play games on my 500 many years and years ago. Now having bought a 1200 8mb ram and 80mb hd, yes a whole 80mb's i wanna install some games on it, i hear this should run smoother than with floppies. I dont want 100's of games so 80mb should do fine. Is whdload the best way to go? Are the games for this slightly modified, and made bigger and beter? I have purchased a PCMCIA ethernet network card kit from ebay a while back for this purpose.. Anybody have info for me?

cheers Baz

[bazza1975]

Thanks for the replies :-)
What part does the pcmcia card play exactly, currently the 1200hd is installed with standard amiga software. How i get whdload to work exactly?

Sorry if this question has already been asked a 100 times already... :rtfm:

[bazza1975]

I know the icon is very well placed :-)
So the setup can be done with floppies on the 1200. Does it run on the existing amiga OS which is presently installed?
Get the amiga online, you mean connected to a pc?

[bazza1975]

Thanks, i can finally get started :-)

[bazza1975]

Will the pcmcia card be of any use in this process, seeing im working with a prehistoric floppy drive??

[bazza1975]

Well dont own any original games, been a long time... The transfer kit would be the best option, so will probably be choosing for that option.. How would i set up the OS then?

cheers Baz

[bazza1975]

Hi folks,

Im back again, now with a pcmcia cf-card kit, so now i copy all the whdload onto the cf-card and transfer it to the amiga right? Thing is the amiga wont recognise it seeing its another OS, whats the answer?

cheers Baz

[bazza1975]

Nope, there was no software with it, are there no tools i can download in order to format it in FAT-16? And after i have done this, what's next?

[bazza1975]

aah i never knew you could still format fat16 in xp...

Ok so then the floppy for the file system,,

then just a matter of mounting the cfcard, with the whdload files.. on the amiga OS.

There is a ADF-transferkit floppy supplied, so that will help.. was still in packet.



:idea:

[bazza1975]

Hi,

How do i open the programes i download on the pc (on a 720k disk) on the amiga... on 3.0. When i enter the disk, a df0:? icon appears. When i go to devs/dosdrivers. it appearsa cf0. I click this it says its already mounted.. cool.. but how do i actually open the disk and install fat.lha in order to access the cf-card....

cheers Baz

[bazza1975]

I found pc0 and started it,

then another icon appeared underneath df0:, its called no name, when i click on it a window opens but its empty :-?

[bazza1975]

Affirmative! i see them no :-)  :-)

Now on the floppy i have fat.lha , which i think i need in order to see the cf-card contents,, but when i click it says "enter  command arguments" and then its not an executable.......?

How do you install files on the amiga?

no setup.exe to be found :-)

[bazza1975]

Ok yeah right,,,

lha is the compression program, so copy lha into c:
then run it by typing lha x {location of lha} {destination}.

So for those of you with the same problem i had try this.

[bazza1975]

What would happen if there was a conflict?

Can i change it to 4mb, in the OS itself?

Can i install whdload + games on the cf-card thus avoiding using the HD altogether...?

[bazza1975]

I am Finally playing stealth fighter on whdload, it only way i can run it is by installing whdload on the ramdisk everytime, and then copy stealth to the ramdisk also (seein i still get errors when trying to install it on the HD)but..... i can't save the game, i have entered a formated floppy into the drive, but seeing its a whdload game it doesnt  save the game. This is vital to this game otherwise its pretty useless.. anyone???