A600hd

[Guille64]

Hello everyone!
After several months of waiting, finally I found my A600 witch I sold two years ago.
It is a A600HD with 4gb hard disk and 1mb of ram and a 4mb svram card.
The CD adaptor and an Green alien edition of the classic workbench.
Everything is fine, but... I want to know if it is possible to run games from whdload. It is the question of my existence (Amiga existence). Because if it is not possible, there the HD is useless for me (I want to play games).
I know that there are many opinions, but not all the A600 system are the same.

Thank you all!

Guillermo.

[Guille64]

Thank you all!
I have always think that the A600 would be a good games machine using whdload. I am happy to found it again!
I will try to upgrade to rom 3.1 too.
The only thing that I must to find a solution is the monitor problem: I not longer have one, and the CD32 runs well with Svideo and a sinth card to a VGA monitor, but with the A600 (pal-b) it's different. Maybe I will give a chance to my LCD TV and see what happens.

Regards

Guillermo.

[Guille64]

One thing that I am not sure is if I will see colours or black and white via composite.
Another thing is that the image could vary according to the quality of the composite cable, isn't it?

Thanks

[Guille64]

Thank you Cammy!
I use the CD32 with Svideo and an external sint to my PC monitor and works great. I guess my LCD doesn't have Svideo (Samsung 32"). Maybe the better way without a 1084 would be the Svideo adaptor to the external sint and the PC monitor. Now I remember that when I tried to use a Svideo adaptor (no longer have it) I saw without red, maybe because the A600 is PAL-B.

[Guille64]

Well, finally I have my A600 HD again. I am glad and I must say that WHDLoad runs ok even without clicking the mouse buttons at the start to free memory. I am using 1mb base and a sram card with 4mb extra. By the way using composite with my LCD runs ok too. Almost like S-video.
I am really happy, the A600 is just a wonderful computer!

[Guille64]

The A600 outputs colour composite. It was the old A500, without an A520 plugged in, that had a black & white composite output. Your A600 also has a built-in TV modulator to output an RF signal, even blurrier than Composite but it's there in case Composite doesn't work.

I guess you really need yourself an S-Video adapter! I have a few of these, I use them on my A1200, A600 and A500. I use both large CRT TVs as well as LCD TVs with them, and the LCD TVs even remove the flickering from interlaced modes (no need for a flicker-fixer now). You can get S-Video adapters, backup EPROMs, PSU adapters and other handy hardware at http://amigamaniac.com

I have a problem with my A600 and the LCD viewed with composite:
In workbench and some games the colours flash generally when the game is loading (in those who run well) and flash anytime in others. Otherwise the image quality is good enough.
Now I am working in the build of another A600 (slightly different). I will see if the problem remains on this one too.

Regards,

[Guille64]

Some Amiga fan said to me that my problem with the colours using composite must be related to the copper. So, I won't solve the problem if I don't change to RGB. It's a really interesting subject, because it involves programming. Now, I am building another A600 with one more mb of chipram; maybe I could change something if the memory has something to do with the problem.

Regards

[Guille64]

It has nothing to do with the copper. Any problem with the copper would appear the same on the composite output as it would on the RGB.

But, if the problem concerns to some games and some parts of the games (typically when loading) and always the same way; maybe the hardware isn't the cause.
I don't have big experience in programing, but the copper theory seems to be a good explanation for the problem.

PD: maybe hard disk interference?