is it possible to run ADF files directly on an Amiga?

[Jammeista]

have received the CF-card reader, will see if I can sneak in some time to test WHDload this weekend. Still need an expansion for my 1200 tho, can anyone recommend what kind of expansion I should get pls? Where they sell and what they usually cost etc..?

[rkauer]

Jammeista wrote:
have received the CF-card reader, will see if I can sneak in some time to test WHDload this weekend. Still need an expansion for my 1200 tho, can anyone recommend what kind of expansion I should get pls? Where they sell and what they usually cost etc..?

 If you aiming just old games, the better bet is a '030 accelerator with at least 4 Mb.

 But bear in mind (BEER IN MIND? GREAT IDEA, AGAIN!:pint:) that are some games who requires lots more than this (I love to play TotalChaosAGA, who requires 32Mb!).

[Tigger]

1.3 supports Harddisks, thats the only major change between 1.2 and 1.3 on the prom.
     -Tig

[murple]

amigakit wrote:
Our EasyADF program self-boots from floppy and will automatically create a RAD device in RAM and unarchive the ADF to there- you can then run the ADF from RAD

That sounds awesome, and I would buy it if you sold just the software. I've accumulated a whole stack of those damn PCMCIA Compact Flash cards though (I work at an ISP and many routers come with those) so I cant justify buying another one when all I want is the software.

Soon as you guys start selling the disk without the flash adapter though, I'm ordering!

[Piru]

No hard disk support in 1.3?

A600 / A1200 / A4000 IDE.

[Piru]

@Tigger

1.3 supports Harddisks, thats the only major change between 1.2 and 1.3 on the prom.

Actually no, it's not.

The only difference between Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 is a bugfix in expansion.library:
bug explained

This bug resulted in AUTOCONFIG(TM) autoboot malfunctioning. Everything else worked, but you just couldn't boot from the HDD directly. AFAIK booting from floppy and then using the HDD worked. This is the reason why many older HDD controllers such as A590 have a jumper to disable the autoboot (to avoid crash with 1.2, but still allowing to use the HDD when booted off floppy).

What I meant with losing the HDD when you boot to KS 1.3 was with A600, A1200, A4000 built-in IDE. KS 1.x doesn't have the driver in the ROM.

[Piru]

@murple

Quoting myself from earlier in this thread:

Whether you can run ADF from some virtual device (RAD, FFx, or otherwise) depends on the ADF itself. If it has custom floppy loader routines (many games do), then you can not (no, not even with EasyADF).

Which means, most games will not work when booted from RAD:. That isn't exactly EasyADF's fault, but IMO it's a bit misleading to market the thing as enabling such a feat.

NOTE: This does not mean EasyADF would be useless or anything like that. I just wanted to point out the limitation.