Old Time Amiga Fan - Returning (with a question)

[SnowDog]

Ok... So I bought my first Amiga in 1985 and was  a HUGE fan until about 1994 when Commodore left me holding the bag with a brand new 3000 that was a lemon...

Anyway... In the past few months my love for the Amiga is back and I have  a few systems set up and I'm having a blast!  

I'm surprised how much stuff I remember but one this is bugging me cause I can't figure out how I use to do it....

When you have games that are meant to be ran from the floppy... How do you copy them to your harddrive?  I dug out a bunch of old games that I know I had installed on my HD but can't remember exactly how to do it... I seem to rememeber editing the startup-sequence but not sure what I did...

2nd question... what is the best prog to use to edit stuff like that... I use to always just use EDIT and I got in... remembered how to list out tht script and EXIT but that's about it... hahaha

Thanks for your help!

[QuikSanz]

Yes your memory serves you well. on many programs they won't run unless assigned via user startup. old versions of installer won't do this for you.

Chris

[xeron]

The best method is to download WHDLoad, and then a specific hard disk installer for each game from here: whdload.de. There are over 1,000 game installers there, and most also fix bugs in games as well as allowing them to run from the HD.

If you copy a disk to your hard disk, and the program says "Please insert volume BLAH: in any drive", you have to add the following line to your S:user-startup file:

assign BLAH: hard-disk:path/to/blah

Although, I use "AssignZ" to manage my assigns. When such a requester appears, AssignZ gives you the ability to select where on the hard disk to assign and save it there and then without editing any files. AssignZ is on Aminet.

[SnowDog]

Wow!  That's awesome!  How things have changed

I'll give that progy a try!

[xeron]

I have a few systems set up

What systems do you have, out of interest?

[SnowDog]

Well as of right now I have a 600HD and a 4000.... I just recently boxed up a 3000 that I bought and it's on ebay (trying to help finance a Mediator for the 4000)

The only system that I never owned was a 1200... maybe I should remedy that..