A500 and games (not working)

[paul1981]

Cammy's spot on with the DF1/DF2 advise. Although it's strange how your games seem to freeze right after the intro.
May seem a silly question, but are you sure the disks are okay? I'm not sure about amiga explorer and its associated tools, but there are poor disk tools out there that don't even verify what has been written to disk...so that if you have a bad disk this could explain some of your problems. Also recommend you get a diskdrive cleaning kit.

[paul1981]

Hvala.
 
What do you mean by "if the board has been modified ... " ? What board ? The morherboard ? I've seen it naked plenty of times so far and it doesn't look like it has been touched by anyone. No hw alterations as far as I can tell. How can one tell anyways ? Maybe I'm not looking at the right angle.

He's referring to your A500 motherboard being modified. I don't know the exact procedure, but it's well documented. What this modification does is to turn your 512K trapdoor "fast ram" into "chip ram" (also called graphics memory) which results in 1MB chip ram.
Basically, some games require 1MB chip ram, in which case 512K chip and 512K fast just wouldn't work. This is where the motherboard modification comes in.
It's possible that some of your games are not working because you do not have enough chip ram available.

[paul1981]

It outputs (amongst other things):
 
chip max:  523264
fast max:  524288
total :     1047552

So there you have it, you have an unmodified motherboard...512K CHIP, 512K FAST (trapdoor expansion).

[paul1981]

"This is not an executable file" message is bugging me. I'm thinking ... maybe not all of my AExplorer transfers are sucessfull even though I don't get any transfer errors.

It certainly sounds like it. This is what you need to test, and the file sizes should be identical by the way. When you look at the file size on the Amiga you'll need to use the "list" command, or if the program has an icon (like WhichAmiga does) then you can select the icon and then select Info from the Workbench menu.