Shadow of the beast I and Amiga CD32 (chipset AGA)

[Carlo]

Hello dear Friends,

i'm writing to ask if someone knows how convert Shadow of the beast I on Amiga CD32. Is there a way to play this game on CD32? Anyone is able to make conversion?

Thanks a lot for your replies....

Carlo, Rome

[derringer3]

I never seen any cd32 that boot into amiga OS. Maybe other's got some info how to do a cd32 auto-boot, that loading wb or amigados. Anyway if you have done this, then you should put(install) whdload and shadow of the beast on that cd and then you can run it.
Propably you need a desktop amiga (or pc with winuae) to do this.
So you make a cd wich contains amigaos, installed whdload and the whdload version of beast. (Because the original game was made trackload system so works only floppy.)

[jkirk]

i thought all cd32 disks booted into dos/amigaos. it should be just a matter of creating an iso of a game editing the startup sequence/user startup in the iso file to boot a whdload game. and copy the game/whdload into the iso somebody please correct me if i am wrong since all the os files have been on all cd32 disks i have.

the easiest way i know to do this is create the iso with any iso ripperthen use winrar or something similar to xtract the files (to be modified then add the new/modified files back into the iso.

the reason for going this route is the cd32 cd's have a custom bootblock iirc and i don't know how to replicate this.

[motorollin]

A CD with WHDLoad installed with the startup-sequence launching the game should work. Alternatively you could have a whole Workbench installation on the CD with WHDLoad and lots of games so you can choose which one you want to launch. But I don't think it's as simple as burning the files to an ISO CD. The disc has to be created in a particular way or it won't boot.

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moto

[motorollin]

This page contains instructions on burning a CDTV disc which is the same format as a CD32 disc.

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moto

[neuroflip]

Take a look at this guide... i used this method to create an os3.1 boot cd to run hippoplayer with cd32... nice!

you will need the amiga developer CD to get the TM files

Create your own bootable Amiga CD

[DrDekker]

As far as I can remember, SOTB won't run on anything other than an Amiga with the OCS and KS1.3 or earlier.

It definitely doesn't run on my A1200 or A600, so getting it to run on a CD323 seems improbable.

Using kickstart down-graders works with some games, but the ones I've tried didn't work with SOTB :-(

[leirbag28]

@DrDeckker

SOTB runs on any Amiga with any KickStart.  Just as long as you have WHDLoad Installed.

I ran it on my CD32 when I had the SX-1 and SX32 connected.
And as someone here said.one can make a bootable CD.

You can also use any AmigaFORMAT or CU Amiga CD wich boot into Workbench.

[Vincent]

DrDekker wrote:
As far as I can remember, SOTB won't run on anything other than an Amiga with the OCS and KS1.3 or earlier.

I had the same problem until I discovered WHDLoad.

WHDLoad is just absolutely fantastic for getting any* game working from the HD.


* I don't think that's actually true, but there's a hell of a lot of games that have WHDLoad installers

[Louis Dias]

The CD32's early-boot meny lets you downgrade to ECS chipset.  That may help.

I have a CD32 w/SX-1 and HD disk drive and most A500 software ran on it fine from floppy disk.

[Damion]

SOTB will work from floppy with an A1200 or A600, it's just a question of the right Degrader settings and how much time you want to spend messing with it. I used to write this stuff down somewhere, I'll see if I can find how I did it.

IIRC the only old game I was never able to get working on the A1200 was Megafortress... dunno why, but no amount of tweaking would do it. Must be one of those badly coded "68000 only" games Piru was talking about the other day.

[DrDekker]

Hey guys - thanks for the correction and hence the solution to my SOTB woes.

It'd be great to get SOTB running off my HD.  So WHDload will enable me to install my original copy-protected games disks to HD then?

 

[krize]

DrDekker: Yep, www.whdload.de * Register if you like and use it

[adolescent]

-D- wrote:
IIRC the only old game I was never able to get working on the A1200 was Megafortress...

Megafortress works on my A4000/060 with just a simple degrading (nothing to do with the 68k, just AGA stuff IIRC).

[Damion]

adolescent wrote:

-D- wrote:
IIRC the only old game I was never able to get working on the A1200 was Megafortress...

Megafortress works on my A4000/060 with just a simple degrading (nothing to do with the 68k, just AGA stuff IIRC).

Weird. I tried all sorts of things, and I recall it being the only game I could never get to work. I don't have my '060 anymore, but maybe I'll try it on the basic A1200 one of these days and see what happens. (Maybe my HD install was corrupted or something. :shrug:)

Interestingly enough, I gave SOTB a go on the A500/A530 combo I've been messing with lately, and so far it *only* works with the '030 disabled. (It's OK with v2 ROM, though.) Haven't messed about with Degrader or the A1200 yet, LOL.