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[paul1981]

I think its my chip ram, I only have 512.  When I disable my wallpaper I get a bit further in the opening screen to the point where I have to press any key to continue.

I am running MUI and Class Act so I am sure those don't help either.

Very frustrating, I have 8MB or ram and I still can't run games because of Chip Ram.  I am this close of taking he KickStart 3.1 rom out of the A2000 and moving it to my A500.

Thanks

Try changing your screenmode prefs to 2 colours temporarily in addition to clearing the wallpaper for windows, backdrop and workbench. This should free up some chip ram and hopefully run the game.

If that doesn't work, you could always boot with no startup-sequence and run the game from the shell.
If there's not enough chip ram still (even when booting with no startup-sequence) download and try this little proggy:

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/add36k

This will free up a further 36K of chipram (it will make the screen a narrow band and change the colour depth to 2 colours, but you should be able to see enough to type commands into the shell). This works from the Workbench too if you fancy a laugh. Hehe...

[paul1981]

I don't have a Megachip, are you telling me I can increase my chip ram using a jumper without one, or do I need a megachip for it to work?
 
 Thanks

You'd need a Megachip.
Oops...you'll need a Megachip for 2MB. Possibly you could get 1MB of chip by replacing the Agnus with 1MB part and then change jumper settings but you'll have to ask an A2000 expert.

Check out this review of the Megachip:
http://www.amigareport.com/ar306/review2.html

Choices:
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/categorylist.aspx?se=megachip