Help Needed with Swiv

[bilbo1968]

Hey ya

Im new here - I used to own an amiga A600 when they first came out but havent had one for years so I am very rusty but learning quickly.

I have an A600 and an A1200 and a copy of swiv - I cannot get it to run on either machine. Someone suggested Relokick but I have been unable to locate a copy - Would this program enable me to run the game? I used to have it in the old days and it seemed to work - would anyone be able to suggest where i could get a copy if this would work?

Thanks in advance for any help you would be able to give me.

Dave

[AmigaMance]

You can use TUDE from Aminet which is free, instead. If the problem is that the game requires ROM 1.3, this program will allow you to softkick a ROM image to memory. Just like ReloKick. But then you will be left with half MB of memory and i don't know if Swiv is ok with it.

[motorollin]

SWIV is an OCS game so I guess it would run with 256k. That means you should have enough RAM to softkick 1.3 to get it working. A far better solution though would be to invest in a cheap accelerator with some RAM for your A1200, and a small hard drive, then you could use WHDLoad to install SWIV to hard drive. The WHDLoad installer will fix the game so it will run under 3.x.

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moto

[bilbo1968]

oh god now youve started something LOL

I dont know how to make disks that would be readable on the amiga from my pc as i dont have internet access on my amiga - is it possible - sorry for being a noob but im not sure i could do this.

If anyone has a copy of this program they would sell me or relokick then i would be prepared to pay a decent price for it.

[motorollin]

There are countless posts on this forum describing how to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga, so have a search. Searching for "crossdos" would be a good start. If you really can't find it then come back and ask again, but it's good manners to search first :-)

There's no need to by TUDE or ReloKick, they're freeware. Once you've got a method of getting them from a PC to an Amiga you'll be on your way.

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moto

[bilbo1968]

ok thanks sorry for the bad manners as i said im new

[motorollin]

Please don't apologise I wasn't having a go. I was just letting you know that there's already a lot of information in historical posts which is available by searching. If you can't find the info you need by searching then by all means post asking for help - it's why the forums are here :-D

Welcome to a.org BTW :-)

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moto