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Amiga and WHDLoad. Anyone use it?

  • 04-08-2007 10:50pm
    #1
    hamster
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    WHDLoad allows you to run floppy based Amiga games from a harddrive on the amiga under workbench 3.1. This means you can run even old Amiga 500 games on a *ahem* slightly more modern Amiga 1200. :o Anyway, it's mainly useful for those with the real machine since if you get an accelerator and addons with memory and so forth - many of disk games complain of non standard hardware etc.
    So WHDload is genius at making everything work on a souped up Amiga. You could use most amiga floppy games on a vanilla A1200 but a lot of the applications out there for it would be pig slow or cumbersome with only 2Mb and floppies.
    I haven't bought an A1200 yet but thinking seriously about it - WHDload is handy with WinUAE as well. Boots up just as fast. The program has been updated since 1997. Real dedication there.


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  • #2
    hamster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭hamster


    I registered WHDLoad today. The key was sent within 24 hours. That was fast! :)


  • #3
    daedalus2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    Yeah, I use it alright seeing as my A1200 bears very little resemblance to an original one (see my sig) and I need it for running the likes of Cannon fodder, SWOS and so on from the HD... It's excellent software! Still some things don't totally work on it but they're generally the very old A500/A1000 era games.


  • #4
    hamster
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    daedalus2097 wrote:
    Yeah, I use it alright seeing as my A1200 bears very little resemblance to an original one (see my sig) and I need it for running the likes of Cannon fodder, SWOS and so on from the HD... It's excellent software! Still some things don't totally work on it but they're generally the very old A500/A1000 era games.

    Interesting Daedalus,

    So you housed the A1200 PCB in a tower? That 060 is pretty meaty - Did you get an Apollo accelerator and how is the ram configured? 2Mb Chip ram / 190Mb fast ram? Nice system - you should throw a pic when you get the chance. ;) I'm thinking about getting an A1200 but I will want to avoid CRTs and TVs and connect to a standard LCD using a multisync box. The emulator route is just so flexible for instant dynamic reconfiguration right now. But you can't beat the real thing :)


  • #5
    daedalus2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    Yeah, it's in a full-sized AT tower from yesteryear... It's a Blizzard 1260 with the SCSI controller on it, 128MB and 64MB SIMMs, plus the 2MB Chip ram and the 16MB on the graphics card... I'm using a lovely monitor on it actually with a scandoubler on the motherboard for the native screenmodes, but for normal work and modern games the Voodoo gives me a lovely 1600x1200 Workbench screen. I can seriously recommend the scandoubler, it can be fit in the original case and gives a standard, crystal clear VGA output beside the mouse socket.

    It's true, the emulators are handy, but you can't beat the real thing - floppy clicking and all :)


  • #6
    daedalus2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    And here's a photo I took during a recent rebuild of my Amiga to solve a few niggling problems... (Click to enlarge)

    normal_DSC_1050.jpg

    Click here to see another few pictures from the rebuild. None of the tower I'm afraid, but I also have a proper "retro" machine, an A1200 in the original case, 030/50, 64MB, CD-Rom and a 30GB hard drive all squeezed in there :)


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  • #7
    hamster
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    Nice, the main board is heaving under all that weight - bet the poor old board never though it would go through all that in its lifetime. What is card with all the ram on left? Your voodoo card is in the centre I take it. I better order a vanilla A1200 before go they are all taken and go yellow. :p


  • #8
    daedalus2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    Top left is the SCSI add-on for the Blizzard accelerators - it also has the 2nd SIMM slot and the only slot that can fit the 128MB SIMM. It fits back-to-back with the 060 board. The 4 PCI cards are a 16MB Voodoo 3, 10/100 network, Soundblaster 128 and some generic TV card which is normally where the USB goes. Hanging off the back is the Catweasel for access to pretty much any floppy drive and format in the world, at the right is an IDE buffer and underneath the PCI boards is the flicker fixer for VGA output natively. In the tower it's all supported properly of course though!

    I got a nice pretty much mint A1200 last year for not too much on eBay - wait around though cos when there's not too many of them there they fetch silly money. Believe it or not though you can still buy them as "New Old Stock", i.e. never opened or used. http://www.amigakit.com


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