Hi,
Most people are satisfied with just playing the game via the floppydrive, but many games have more disks, and all that swapping....
Another thing is that every game needs is adjustments to run properly and somethimes it takes loads of time to find the correct configuration!
NOT ANYMORE WITH WHDLOAD! It just runs out of the box with even big cpu's and memory,even the oldest games, besides that the load speeed..thats history....mmm...it start just instantly! Once experienced, you never want back! But how to install all this beauty!
Time it will cost you: aprox: 45 minutes of things go fast and well ;) (hey you get loads and loads of joy back for it, dont worry)
What you need:
- WHDload program: www.whdload.de (its partly free, just a few games wont work with it, like civilization en Battlechess and you get an introscreen where it
says to register it because it was a hard work to get this done. When register, introscreen is gone and all games will work)
- A hardisk file (can be made in winuae configuration screen)
- A hardisk directory (to plant your downloaded games and programs)
- Workbench disks 3.1 (you get these when buying amiga forever from cloanto www.amigaforever.com)
- Amiga Roms (3.1 a4000, 3.1 a.1200. 1.3 a500, with these 3 olmost every game works) you can get these when buying amiga forever.
- skick346 (from aminet page aminet.net/package/util/boot/skick346)
- WHDload Games (you find links of your games on the lemonamiga website.
- E-UAE for the workbench install (unfortunantly there is an issue when swapping disks via f12)
Lets start:
Open Winuae, and make an a1200 configuration with a 68040 cpu and 2 mb chip and like 16 mb Z3 fast memory.
Ad the 3.1 rom at roms and add with the floppydrive the floppy emulation speed more than 400% to speed up the floppy drive. (speeds up the disk installs) Before launch we only have to make an hardisk (250 mb should be enough, unless you install all the games of the amiga ;) and save the config. Go to hard drives and make a hardfile of the 250 mb. and name it whatever you want. add also a directory (name it work or something) and put in that folder all the downloaded files (skick, whdload, whdload games (the games folders) and the roms).
Now when everything is done, save the config first!!! and name it whatever you want.
Now somthing who else. because of the swapping bug, and workbench has more than 4 disks, you need to install workbench on that disk with e-uae. Maybe its just on the mac (this bug) so if you don't have that problem, install workbench via winuae.
Now when ready and start:
you will end in workbench 3.1 now and you see the hardiskfile (wich isnt formated yet)
Now quikformat the hardiskfile.
Next install workbench via the install disk on your formated hardiskfile of 250mb (choose experienced install, so you have the option to install it on the hardisk.) with the floppy emulation speed, you notice faster install of the disks.
When finished you can use Winuae again (if you not already used it instead of e-uae)
Now load the config file and start winuae.
Workbench will load . When your open your directory folder, you notice there are no folders....relax, thats normal, they need .info files.
Open your hardisk directory (with all your stuff) and make a defealt drawer (it will also creates then a .info file.)
Close winuae.
Go to the directory folder and you notice a .info file of the default drawer. Copy that file and paste it as many as you have folders in it.
Now rename the .ifo files to the drawers, like skick346 with skick346.info so every drawer should has its own .info file.
When done...(this takes some time depending on the loads of folders) start winuae again and when opening the directory you see the folders/drawers!!!!
Now install whdload on the hardisk (just click install it will recommon the c drive to install, click proceed)
After install, go to: devs and make a drawer and name it "kickstarts".
Now copy all kickstarts of skick346 to that folder.
Now the roms: rename the a1200 rom to: kick40068.a1200 and the a4000 rom to kick40068.a4000 and copy that also to the kickstart folder. Now the same for the a500 rom. Name it kick34005.a500 and copy it to the kickstart folder.
Now your ready!!!
Start one of the whdload drawers with your game and start it: now the register window wil start and at the end it will say wich button can exits the game (like f10 or printscreen). The game starts with all its beauty!!
Enjoy!
Paul The Tall
Paulthetall on 2009-08-09 01:04:27
