Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Forums
« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks  (Read 2793 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline trip6Topic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2007
  • Posts: 348
    • Show only replies by trip6
WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« on: July 10, 2007, 05:44:58 PM »
Where can I obtain a copy of WHDLoad on Amiga formatted disks? Since I have no way to transfer ADF files...
Logged
 

Offline TiredOLife

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2005
  • Posts: 508
    • Show only replies by TiredOLife
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2007, 06:34:54 PM »
Can you give me a bit more info about what you are trying to do?
Might be able to offer some alternative solutions.
Logged
 

Offline A4000_Mad

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2006
  • Posts: 1392
    • Show only replies by A4000_Mad
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2007, 08:49:58 PM »
Me thinks that he can download WHDLoad into his PC but cannot get it into his Amiga. Hence, the request for it to be on Amiga formatted disks. He probably needs to format an Amiga disk with his PC, put WHDLoad on the disk and then double click on the usual PC0 icon in his Workbench:Storage/DOSDrivers drawer for the Amiga to read it :pint:
Logged
A4000 Mad
 

Offline Flashlab

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 1396
    • Show only replies by Flashlab
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2007, 08:51:42 PM »
Yep but he's running WB1.3 and that doesn't come with CrossDOS. How do you get that to your Amiga with a PC?
Logged
Amiga 4000D Cyberstorm PPC 060@50 604@200 SCSI 130Mb Ram G-Rex Voodoo3 PicassoIV Paloma Ariadne Delfina Lite

Online Flash version of BoulderDash: Offline...
 

Offline A4000_Mad

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2006
  • Posts: 1392
    • Show only replies by A4000_Mad
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2007, 09:22:11 PM »
Doh! I can't see WB1.3 in his post above. Anyway, unless I am mistaken it says HERE that Kickstart 2.0 (version 37+) is required. I've never tried WHDLoad below 3.0 myself. Well at least we have bumped the thread for him :-D
Logged
A4000 Mad
 

Offline motorollin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2005
  • Posts: 8669
    • Show only replies by motorollin
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2007, 09:34:50 PM »
Getting WHDLoad on a floppy from somewhere won't really help since he still needs installers for his games. He should really look in to a long-term solution for transferring files from PC to Amiga, many of which can be found by searching this site.

--
moto
Logged
Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

Offline Flashlab

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 1396
    • Show only replies by Flashlab
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2007, 09:38:48 PM »
@A4000_Mad

I looked up his username and found this post:

Topic

So I figure he wants to use that setup.

But you're right about kickstart 2.0 for WHDLoad I guess, So no point in trying it on 1.3...
Logged
Amiga 4000D Cyberstorm PPC 060@50 604@200 SCSI 130Mb Ram G-Rex Voodoo3 PicassoIV Paloma Ariadne Delfina Lite

Online Flash version of BoulderDash: Offline...
 

Offline trip6Topic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2007
  • Posts: 348
    • Show only replies by trip6
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2007, 10:00:05 PM »
I do have kikstart 1.3... On an A500... But as stated I have no way to transfer ADF's to it... I have another A500 with a rev 6a board and kikstart 2.04 in that one on the way from Cali.

So how can I get the WHDLoad disks?

Thanks for the bump by the way...
Logged
 

Offline Flashlab

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 1396
    • Show only replies by Flashlab
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2007, 10:08:48 PM »
Well, WHDLoad is an archive you need to download; there are no official disks. The archive won't fit a DD floppy anyway. Not on PC or Amiga formatted disks; it's 893 Kb. When you get it to your Amiga you also need to decompress it. Then you need to transfer games as well.

I would advise you, like others did, to search for a way to connect your Amiga to another computer to transfer files. Do a search here on the forum for some ideas!
Logged
Amiga 4000D Cyberstorm PPC 060@50 604@200 SCSI 130Mb Ram G-Rex Voodoo3 PicassoIV Paloma Ariadne Delfina Lite

Online Flash version of BoulderDash: Offline...
 

Offline trip6Topic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2007
  • Posts: 348
    • Show only replies by trip6
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2007, 09:29:40 PM »
I'm looking at this special parrallel transfer cable thing for transferring ADF's... Anybody recommend any other method for an A500?
Logged
 

Offline RRunner

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 205
    • Show only replies by RRunner
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2007, 09:48:32 PM »
Quote

trip6 wrote:
I'm looking at this special parrallel transfer cable thing for transferring ADF's... Anybody recommend any other method for an A500?


If you have a LOT of time on your hands... you could zip the ADF file into two sections. Copy these onto DD PC floppies from a PC then copy them onto your Amiga. Use PKZIP or some other Amiga Zip utility to decompress the two zip files back into the ADF. A bit time consuming but it will probably work.

Just a thought...
Logged
-=>The RoadRunner<=-
A2000 030/40Mhz, 8Mb RAM, 1GB HD
AmiKit
 

Offline SamuraiCrow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 2281
  • Country: us
  • Gender: Male
    • Show only replies by SamuraiCrow
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2007, 12:58:53 AM »
You could probably skip the PKZip part since it hasn't been used since the days of MS-DOS and use FileSplitter on the PC to convert your large file into 720k chunks.  Format the floppies to 720k from the Windows command prompt, use CrossDOS on the A500 to read the PC floppies, then use the join command from the CLI on the Amiga to join the chunks together on your A500's hard drive.  Then to create a real disk of your .ADF file, use ADF2Disk.
Logged
 

Offline TjLaZer

Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2007, 03:20:19 AM »
Are you planning on running WHDLoad on the A500 with Kick 1.3?  It won't work, only on Kick 2.x or higher and you really need Fast RAM also or it won't work very well.  Even on a A600 with 2MB Chip and no fast a lot of games do not work.

If you have 1MB in your A500 you can transfer ADFs to it, its tricky but you need to get CrossDOS or other type of FAT12 file system.  Then you zip the ADF on the 720k disk, read and unzip it to RAM: then ADF2Disk it to a real disk.
Logged
Going Bananas over AMIGAs since 1987...

Looking for Fusion Fourty PNG ROMs V3.4?

:flame: :banana: :banana: :banana:
 

Offline RRunner

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 205
    • Show only replies by RRunner
Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2007, 03:30:21 AM »
In the end... if you are going to go to all that trouble to get these ADF files over to your Amiga which may or may not be able to play them depending on the system.... (sounds like a lot of work to me)...

Why don't you just run WinUAE on your PC and run the games from there? If you have a P3 or better, it will probably be faster anyways!  :-D
Logged
-=>The RoadRunner<=-
A2000 030/40Mhz, 8Mb RAM, 1GB HD
AmiKit
 

Offline TjLaZer

Re: WHDLoad on Amiga Disks
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2007, 05:18:22 AM »
Cuz it's funner on the real deal!!
Logged
Going Bananas over AMIGAs since 1987...

Looking for Fusion Fourty PNG ROMs V3.4?

:flame: :banana: :banana: :banana:
 
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »