WinUAE, no more than 1 floppy image, and "NDOS".

[circlip]

Hi all,


Problem #1:

I managed to get everything working fine, but now for some odd reason I can only work 1 ADF image in WinUAE, instead of 4 "emulated" drives. It's difficult when trying to install software, so I'm short a few games for now. Have tried uninstalling, and installing again, tried downgrading, etc.


Problem #2:

Also another matter, when I tried to install some games on the HDD of my A600, and also in WinUAE (tried both) the disk says "DF0:NDOS" instead of the name, and it won't load. I don't know if it's a Workbench issue, as I only have Cloanto 2006 Workbench 2.10 image copied to Amiga HDD, and I don't have the proper "full install" set. The disks will run fine if inserted into first drive/emulated drive, but I want to install these.

Sorry for being such a newbie, I'm still getting used to my Amiga!

[amigadave]

Due to the rampant "Piracy" present during the early days of the Amiga (and today apparently), most software companies resorted to creating their own versions of copy protection to prevent everyone from copying the floppy disks and distributing them to all their friends at the Amiga User Group meetings which were all over the place.

Piracy didn't kill the Amiga, but it sure pissed of a great many software companies that could not make their money back from Amiga programs they produced.  It is easy to see why so many of them left for the land of Windows where it did not matter if a hundred thousand users pirated their program because another 500,000 users would purchase it and they would still make ten times the money they would have if they had just wrote programs/games for the Amiga.

So, to answer your question, the NDOS disks are probably copy protected and must be booted from directly, not loaded from Workbench.

[MozzerFan]

As for the Winuae floppy problem, have you checked if in the floppydrives section of the WInUAE config window the checkmarks of DF1: DF2: etc. are ticked?

[circlip]

@Mozzerfan, yes the floppy drives were ticked.

It's funny, I tried to install "Strip Poker 3" onto the hard drive, and after that, WinUAE hasn't been normal. I tried recopying the Workbench disks from Amiga Forever CD, (as SP3 was saying "Workbench is write protected") so I unticked the write protect, and after a no-go HDD install, nothing has been the same.

I guess it just goes to say, pr0n aint worth it.  :crazy:

[MozzerFan]

I guess it just goes to say, pr0n aint worth it.  

 :lol:

Have you tried reinstalling Amiga forever?

[circlip]

Thank you Mozzerfan, I unistalled WinUAE, and Amiga Forever, reinstalled both, now working!  8-)

But what happened here, did the *ahem* "game" bring down a Windows program somehow?

Would it be tempting fate again if I tried to copy the ADF's from the game to Floppies via Amiga Explorer, and trying to install on A600?

Maybe I should forget about it, lol, I just am used to bad pic shots on a C64 (I used to own one) and was surprised at the cool pics when I ran it on WinUAE.

*Bad Circlip, BAD Circlip!!*

[MozzerFan]

LOL. I don't know what happened, but if it can mess up amiga forever, I sure wouldn't try it on a real amiga.

[circlip]

You got a good point there, I'll leave these sorts of games alone then.

Just another question people,

Would WHDLoad work on a stock A600 with HDD? It would be nice to be able to get some "uninstallable" games on there. I love my A600 now!!!  :crazy: