Speris legacy HD

[Drake1009]

I have a slight problem. I have a version of Speris legacy (I don't know which crack though). I got pretty bored with the loading times from disk though so I tried installing it to HD which went fine.

So far so good. Problem is that whenever I had played the game next time I'd boot the Amiga from harddisk the harddisk would start working a lot more than on a normal boot. This made me a little nervous because the behavior mimicked the behavior I've regrettably seen so many times before when it scans the harddisk for errors because it had been powered off when suddently the Amiga harddisk refused to stop working even though it should be.

Usually the end result of such amount of activity would be a message with an error telling me the harddisk isn't validated. Of course it makes me a little nervous to play the game from harddisk because of that. But I was wondering. Is there a problem here which I've just been lucky enough to avoid for a good bit or is it just files which were temporarily stored which are being deleted?

[Galahad/FLT]

Ok, Speris Legacy does NOT write any AmigaDOS file info to your harddrive. Only the CD32 version does.

The Amiga version uses a custom MFM filesystem for loading/saving games (I thank you!), so that should eliminate ANY validation problems, because nothing ever is physically written to hard drive. So your problems lie elsewhere.

[Drake1009]

Hmmm. Well that sounds strange, I'm fairly certain it isn't the CD32 version. Otherwise it'd be the first CD32 rip playable from disk.

[Twistin'Ghost]

Actually, there was a number of CD32 rips to floppy...

[Drake1009]

Which also ran directly from the floppies?

Well how can you distinguish the CD32 from normal versions?

[mr_0rga5m]

OK .. its late .. just come in from da pub .. etc...

But i remember on my a1200 (with afs) my missus used to play but there used to be some problem with save's n such that 'unvalidated' (or would if it wasnt afs) the drive.

I'll ask the missus tommorow but i had to note that there is a problem

regards & *hic* :)

[Galahad/FLT]

The CD32 version saves to non_volatile (so if there is a nv directory on one of your disks, then its the CD32 version), if it saves to a custom floppy, then its the original Disk version

[Drake1009]

Ok then I guess I'll have to try installing it again and make a savegame to see wether it's the CD32 or Disk version I've got. I never made a save with the game since I never got that far and got too concerned about the disk activity at next boot.