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Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« on: May 20, 2010, 11:24:13 PM »
Hey I remember playing this fine on my A1000 at the time, but now I have acquired a budget re-release of the game and it is refusing to run.

I only have 3 Amigas left working, a 2.5mb A1000, a 2mb A600 and a 2mb A1200. I couldn't get the game to work on my 2.5mb A1000, it just gurus on me after initially turning the screen black. Also doesn't work on my a600. Both machines have slightly iffy internal drives though and usually copy stuff from external to internal but being an original disk I can't do this.

Anyone else have problems with the Sizzlers re-release of SotB on A600 or A1000 with more than 1mb in both cases? At the time of release I had either a 512kb A1000 or 1mb and
it definitely worked on my A1000 on full price release. Using KS 1.3 disk as being a 1989 game that's correct. I did have only one game that never worked on my A1000 but did work fine on neighbours A500, that was Ghosts and Goblins. It did the same sort of thing.

Too much memory or tired and old internal disk drive you reckon?
 

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Re: Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 12:06:07 AM »
I have a 500 with adram 540 4mb added i took my dataflyer off the end and the shadow of the beast game booted fine. no processor upgrades in the computer rev6a board

seems like I did have some psygnosis  games that would only work with 1 meg.
 

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Re: Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 12:09:33 AM »
Maybe the disk was a rental. ;)
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Re: Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2010, 12:25:02 AM »
Oh did you decide to play it to compare the 4 8-bit DAC audio extravaganza to the CD version?



I played that one, it worked fine.  

Though you had to press up to jump.  I don't know why.  Maybe the disk was scratched.
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Re: Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2010, 12:26:29 AM »
could be a rental but I got a T-shirt with my copy and  I have to correct my previous statement I have 3.1 roms in my 500
 

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Re: Shadow of the Beast problems with extra RAM?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 06:09:35 PM »
Quote from: TomJ;559816
could be a rental but I got a T-shirt with my copy and  I have to correct my previous statement I have 3.1 roms in my 500


lol ignore them, they're just being jovial trolls cross posting from another thread.

Thanks for the info, turns out it does only work on my 1mb A600.

I didn't bother with trying to boot off DF1: via a KS2 loaded via zkick on my A1000 as it probably wouldn't like the memory map, and the internal drive on my A1000 needs replacing and doesn't load half my games anyway unless I boot from DF1: via KS2.