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Offline Quaxo76Topic starter

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Re: New member and new Amiga 1200!
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 28, 2010, 05:49:58 AM »
These are the games that don't work (I still haven't checked them on the A1000 though, so there's a chance that the disks have gone bad, though I tested them all about a couple of years ago):
Nitro (starts loading then stops after 10-15 sec. before showing the first screen)
Tetris Plus - after the intro, it hangs
R-Type - immediately after boot it hangs with a garbled b/w screen
Flight Simulator - shows a shell-like screen, with the 1> prompt
Another World - hangs early in the boot
Pinball Dreams - Loads OK but has sound glitches, and when the actual game is loaded, the keyboard doesn't respond.

Then, there are some games that work but with some glitches (i.e. Test Drive works but has glitches like digital noise in the music). Other games too show garbled/out-of-sync music.

This is a partial list as I'm still testing more games (it takes time, as I actually play with every game that works! ;) )

Are these characteristic symptoms of incompatibility? I'm trying to rule out hardware problems! :)

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Re: New member and new Amiga 1200!
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2010, 01:22:03 AM »
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Offline NovaCoder

Re: New member and new Amiga 1200!
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2010, 05:00:33 AM »
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Thanks for the reply!
I tried the boot menu (I had no idea this thing existed, my previous amiga was a 1000 and afaik it doesn't have this menu).
A few games work better with the settings you said. But most games that had problems before, still don't work. I noticed that at least one (I'll have to experiment more) work when I physically unplug the Blizzard card.
Could this be a faulty accelerator? Or it's an incompatibility due to the extra RAM or different CPU?

So is there no way to disable the card via software?

For file transfers, I already ordered the PCMCIA thing, but it's still to be delivered... so for now I have to do with what I have! :) I've also ordered the IDE-CF adaptor because the IDE cable coming out of the back of the Amiga is really ugly.


Sounds like you're on the right track.

Give up on floppy disks (waste of time), just install your CF card and then go and download WHDLOAD.  This is by far the best way to play all of the old games (without the compatibility issues).

As for your mouse problems, I found a nice way to get a decent wireless mouse working on the A1200.

« Last Edit: June 30, 2010, 03:17:57 AM by NovaCoder »
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