Hi,
I want to know how to save things to the drive??
I have not saved anything yet. If I have a program loaded from floopies how do I save the program to the hard drive??? Do u have to specify a drawer??? Just save it willy nilly?? How do u find it then?? Some pointers on how to save things to the hard drive.
The hard drive came with lots of stuff on it but I haven't saved anything over yet. So what do u do to save things to the hard drive??? Wow so u can use an sd card now. Neat. But right now just want to know how to go about using the hard drive.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MAN? :confused:
I think what you are trying to ask is: "I have this program on floppy disk, how do I INSTALL it to the hard drive". If you just want to save something... well, just hit File -> Save, like you would from an open word processor document, or an open paint program, or whatever.
But if you're actually trying to install something, like a game or a piece of productivity software, that's a whole other can of worms. Most 'modern' Amiga software should have an installer. Usually you'd insert the first disk of the application, or a disk labelled "install", or some-such, then double-click on the hard drive installation application, it would run and begin copying files onto the hard drive, asking you for each disk from the application until it's complete. You might be required to make an Assign: to the hard drive, or the installer might do this for you (depending on how well it is written), it might also ask you which partition you want to install to on the drive (for example SYS:, WORK:, etc.), again depending on how well the install script is written.
Basically there was no standard way of installing applications onto a hard drive before Workbench version 2.1 (or was it 2.04?), so if you're trying to install anything that pre-dates that, there could be any of a number of different ways. Sometimes it's as simple as creating a folder on the hard drive and dragging over the contents of the floppy disk into that folder.
Other things, such as old games, were specifically designed to not be hard drive installable. Both because of the short-sightedness of game developers at the time, but also to cut down on software piracy. There's usually work-arounds for games like this in modern times, thanks to the awesome
WHDLoad software.
Long story short, what you're asking can be a very complicated question, or a very simple one, but you're going to need to provide more specifics (such as the name of the application you're trying to install), and you should probably do some google research on "using an Amiga with a hard drive" if you are unfamiliar. Good luck!
