Siedler 2 on A1200NG

[Lordberti]

Hello everyone, I managed to get Settlers 2 running successfully on the A1200NG.

Required for the setup:
- AHI 4.18
- LHA
- Latest P96
- OS 3.2.3 / Kickrom 47.115
- Winuae for Create HDF 3.9gb
- (Optional) DosControl / DOpus4 or any other unpacker
- USB stick (8 GB / extfs) for file transfer
- Settler2.zip i have the Digtial Version

The following steps:

On PC:
Created a blank HDF (3900 MB) using WinUAE ->Copy to USB.
Extract Digital Version of Siedler2.zip to USB

On A1200NG:
Selected ROM: version 47.115 (A1200 KickRom 3.2.3).

System Setting: A1200

CPU settings:

CPU acceleration: enabled

JIT: enabled

CPU: 68040

GPU: enabled

Network: off

Ram: 2MB Chip and 1gb Z3 Ram

Import HDF file from USB

Booted from the Workbench 3.2 Install Disk via ADF.

Format HDF, named Workbench

Installed Workbench 3.2 via ADF, then applied the upgrade to 3.2.3.

Mounted a USB stick and from there installed P96 3.6.1.

In the ToolTypes, set Driver: a600gs

Added BGSprites: Yes

Installed LHA (Aminet) and copied an unpacker to the system — in my case, I used DosControl.

Installed AHI 4.18 (from Aminet, also placed on the USB stick).

Important: Set everything to Paula 8-bit.

Unpacked and installed the Settlers2_Digital Version.lha.

Used the 040 version in High Resolution Mode.

Don’t forget: You need to run an Assign command once for the Settlers2_Digital_Version directory.

Example for the Shell:
Assign Settlers2: sys:Settler2_Digital_Version

Result: Runs quite well — 1024×768 at around 34 FPS.

[broadblues]

Hi thanks for your detailed HOWTO.

A couple of questions though, why do you create such a large HDF file? As I understand the game requires 600Mb ( from reading info here: https://lookbehindyou.de/en/product/thesettlers2amiga/ ) or are there more optional files that can be installed?

A second question why create an HDF at all, why not use  drawer based disk, as this can expand to the available size on the  sdcard?

[Lordberti]

It doesn’t necessarily have to be such a huge HDF. The LHA is around 1.3 GB. Then you have to extract it, so you need some decent extra storage, and after that you still have to install the game → more space used. It could get tight during all these steps.

Why HDF? → So I can just copy it as a whole later. You could probably just copy the stuff into a directory too. My SD card is 256 GB ^^

Once the game is installed, you can just copy it into a folder—so WB + game without the install and unpack folders. That should make it a lot smaller. I just wanted to show one way it could work. There’s always room for improvement.

[broadblues]

Thanks that's useful information

[BozzerBigD]

It doesn’t necessarily have to be such a huge HDF. The LHA is around 1.3 GB. Then you have to extract it, so you need some decent extra storage, and after that you still have to install the game → more space used. It could get tight during all these steps.

Why HDF? → So I can just copy it as a whole later. You could probably just copy the stuff into a directory too. My SD card is 256 GB ^^

Once the game is installed, you can just copy it into a folder—so WB + game without the install and unpack folders. That should make it a lot smaller. I just wanted to show one way it could work. There’s always room for improvement.

I would have hoped that the digital version would have been a ZIP file that could then be unpacked to separate English, German, Polish and Italian LHAs and possibly with a separate LHA to add the classic CDXL videos! There is no way to transfer those huge files over onto my current setup unless I just dump them on my Pistorm's SD card on a PC/Mac. It's possible but an English CD-Rom would have been better for me with a separate CD-Rom for the videos! Not economical to produce probably but it would have made installation simpler!

[SkulleateR]

Hello everyone, I managed to get Settlers 2 running successfully on the A1200NG.

Required for the setup:


- Latest P96
- OS 3.2.3 / Kickrom 47.115

Also works fine with Kick3.1/WB3.1 and P96 Version from Aminet 

Result: Runs quite well — 1024×768 at around 34 FPS.

Yea, getting the same speed on A600GS, works really nice