Issues running James Pond 2 OCS-ECS on NTSC A500

[paul1981]

Hello, I'm trying to get James Pond 2 to run on my Amiga 500 (NTSC - OCS Chipset + 512KB trapdoor ram).

I have the OCS-ECS version. I can get the floppy to run, but I cant press the fire button on my controllers. I can press the esc key, but that resets the intro.

Thanks,

Dr. Chef.

Is the 512K in the trapdoor chipram or slowram? If it's configured as slowram then you may not have enough chipram to run this game, as I've discovered it comes in two flavours:

http://hol.abime.net/781/diskscan

A 0.5MB and a 1MB version. Presumably the 1MB version requires 1MB chipram, in which case you only have 512KB. The "OCS-ECS" version you mention, to me, probably indicates a 1MB chipram requirement.

[paul1981]

Yes, I'm using WB 1.3. I should of mentioned that.

When I type Avail, the shell shows that I have chip and fast ram.

Chip: 449768 Available - 73464 In-Use - 523232 Maximum - 449688 Largest

Fast: 395504 Available - 121384 In-Use - 516888 Maximum - 393664 Largest

Total: 845272 Available - 194848 In-Use - 1040120 Maximum - 449688 Largest

You have 512K Chipram then, and 512K Slowram. That James Pond 2 you have downloaded is either faulty, or a 1MB chipram version perhaps? Try downloading a different one and see if it behaves differently.