someone please take pity on me

[DomN76]

Hello Christmas people

I've just bought an a1200 with a hard-drive & I was wondering if someone could point me to a thread/ page that will explain how to install games currently on floppy onto this HDD, so I don't have to boot from the game disks anymore.

I know virtually nothing about Workbench and how an Amiga works, having used nothing but PCs and Macs for the past 15 yrs

Any help appreciated

Dom

PS - just remembered this exact day, Xmas Eve 1990, cycling home from a friend's house (who already had an a500) and thinking that mine was sitting under the tree... and almost getting killed by a car because I was too excited to concentrate. Happy days!

[Flashlab]

Most Amiga games are not harddisk installable.

But some smart peolpe have developed a program to overcome this niggle. It's called WHDload and can be found at www.whdload.de

It's shareware and if you use it much I suggest you register the program; it's only 20 euro's which I think is great value for money!

Then you can install games from floppy (only originals NO cracks). But there are games that have been given to the Amiga community as freeware. You can find those on www.back2roots.org

Some of the game downloads there are WHDload installs. So that's really easy!

Good luck.

[Framiga]

do a Search for WHDLoad here.

Bye :-)

[DomN76]

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl

Uh, I guess my next dumbass question will be 'how do I get these files from my PC to my Amiga, presupposing I don't want to fiddle for hours getting the a1200 onto my wireless network?'

[Flashlab]

Well...

I use ethernet on my 4000 and I do my Amiga browsing on that machine. So I download directly to my Amiga.

I assume that you don't have a cd-rom since you own a 1200. You could use floppies. You're limited to PC formatted 720K. The Amiga can read those with the PC0: mount file which is in your Storage/Dosdrivers drawer(dir). For small files that's ok. Files that are too big can be splitted using a tool like Sploiner. Look for that on Aminet(www.aminet.net).

For real file transfer I recommend using a CD-Rom and burn CD-R's on your PC. They can be read on your Amiga. Or try to get your Amiga online. There are some PCMCIA port solutions; and yes also wireless connections are possible.

[KThunder]

   what do you need pity for? youve been using pcs and macs for so long and now you have an a1200 thats great. well it did take a long time.
   files smaller than 720k can be written to  a pc floppy and open with your 1200 using crossdos. you do that by opening your system drawer, opening the storage drwer that should be there, then dosdrivers and double click on pc0
    after that whenever you put a msdos formatted disk into your internal driver 2 disk icons will come up, one with a ? on it and the other is the one you use. you can format and copy files as if it were a normal pc drive.
    you can either split, or compress files larger than 720k or use a null modem cable. that is also pretty simple.

[DomN76]

Great! The a1200 is in a tower with a cd rw drive, but I didn't realise it would read PC-written discs. That's the easiest solution for me. Thanks a lot & merry Christmas!

[KThunder]

flashlab beat me to it. well crossdos is what ive used most since my pc and amiga arent very close to each other.