Hi, got a system going to do WHD load games, and went pretty good but my 1st slave game won't run.
System is:
3.1 roms / 1.3 rom switcher
Amiga OS 3.1
2.5 MB ram
I got a rom 1.3 image with grabber utility, it seemed to save it as a file named '?' on the drive, is this normal? I renamed it and put it in the devs:kickstarts directory. And that other file kick34005.A500.RT8 from aminet there too.
WHD load installed fine. I was testing Mission Impossible II; put the disk in when prompted and it completed fine I think. When I click on the slave icon, it loads up WHDLoad (i get the you should register screen).
Then a little pause and I get a dos error of 'not of required type' ? hmm. It never even hit the HD I think, just quit.
I looked at the slave icon, tooltype is set to whdload and that is good but the 'slave=' entry is just blank? What should be there, the mygame.slave file?
So, I'm trying to figure is this a user issue before I go further? There are some definite missing steps in the WHD load docs ; I think the newbie would only find.
:cry:
------------EDIT----------------------------
Ok, got a bit further. Yes, you do need to set the tool
type 'slave=mygame.slave' Then it will start to load
the next part.
Closer, but still won't run. I get to the point where
the rom image has been loaded, and comes back to the old
blue 1.3 screens. There it just sort of blinks in a cycle
and gets stuck.
EDIT - WAIT I was wrong. In fact after some time, as I
write, the game indeed did load! But there is still some odd blinking and flashing. Un-playble at this point,
but I'm getting more encouraged.
Any ideas on the screen flashing ?
:-)
-----------EDIT--------------------
Well after some reading and experiments, seems to me
like the bottle neck is occurring after the 1.3 rom is
soft kicked. Flashing i think is actually, watching how
fast all this can run on my 68000. ? This is as fast as the
screen can be updated?
Odd bits are there though, a few moments on opening
animations are completely fluid. Makes you wonder.
I may try to install the slave with a different option(s)
set. I am convinced now that my rom is perfect. I may
move on and try another game too, see if the results are
the same.
:idea:
