WHD Load Problems with PCMCIA reader and Elbox 1200

[fitzsteve]

Hi All,

Hope someone can offer advice.

I have installed WHDLoad and some games. I can get some games to run straight off the CF card but I must take out the elbox as it does not like to run with the CF reader in the PCMCIA slot. This means I have no fast mem so only a few smaller games run.

So I copied some of the games to the hard drive took out the CF reader and put back the elbox, now I can load more games but the graphics are corrupt, is this a known issue with the eblox? By the way its an Elbox 1200/8 with 68882 fpu.

Also can anyone clarify where I put the kickstart roms and rtb files? Is its c:/devs/Kickstarts/ or or c/whd/devs/kickstarts ? I don't understand when they say 'devs:kickstarts/'

Many thanks,

Steve.

[killergorilla]

It's "sys:devs/kickstarts"

"sys:" will always point to your root drive, no matter what you named it (DH0, Workbench etc.)

[fitzsteve]

Hi mine is called 'workbench'

So its workbench/devs/kickstarts right?

Thanks,

Steve.

[killergorilla]

yes, it will be then :)

[fitzsteve]

yes, it will be then :)

Thanks again.

Steve.

[fitzsteve]

Hi Killergoriller,

Fixing the kickstart path fixed some of my problems so thanks for that. Also reducing graphic settings and removing the enhancement at startup and freed up some memory so I can get most of the games I want to play running without the need for the Elbox.

However I still have trouble running any whdload installed game that has a disk image, they all say that they cannot find disk1 etc. I dont think its memory related as most of the games suggest they need approx 1mb and I have freed up 1.7mb

Any help appreciated, is it becuase I extracted the files on the PC and not the Amiga? I am not sure how to unzip on the Amiga, I can extract an lha but not a zip.

Thanks,

Steve.

[prowler]

Hi Steve,

I'm uploading an Amiga UnZip archive to the Zone for you. :)

Edit: Zoned! :great

BTW, it came from here:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/AMIGA/unz550xA.lha

[fitzsteve]

Thanks, I shall try that tomorrow. Still keen to here if anyone else has had and overcome this problem, upon googling quite a few people have it but no solid solution.

EDIT.

I tried the games in an emulated enviroment and they are fine. It must just be a memory issue there musn'tbe enough memory to mount the disk image and run the game.

Would be interested to hear if anyone has got whdload games with a 'disk1' etc image file to run on a stock 2mb A1200

Will probably sell my Elbox and put the money towards a blizzard or something hopefully that will be compatible with the PCMCIA slot.

Steve.

[Wepl]

However I still have trouble running any whdload installed game that has a disk image, they all say that they cannot find disk1 etc. I dont think its memory related as most of the games suggest they need approx 1mb and I have freed up 1.7mb

an 'exact' error message would be helpful.
the mask/maxtransfer of your cf disk is probably broken.

[fitzsteve]

an 'exact' error message would be helpful.
the mask/maxtransfer of your cf disk is probably broken.

Sorry the error is:

DOS-Error #205 object not found on reading "Disk.1"

I am in the process of installing classic workbench on a spare 2.5hdd I have, was a nightmare to get it partitioned but its currently unzipping the system.zip on my real amiga so fingers crossed and hopefully I get better whdload results now as I have preinstalled all the games in the installation in winuae.

It might even be elbox friendly so I can use the fast memory!

Steve.

[TheCyberDruid]

Sorry the error is:

DOS-Error #205 object not found on reading "Disk.1"

Have a look here : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=43084

[fitzsteve]

Have a look here : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=43084

Hi Thanks, I had a look at the thread before it doen't really give the answr just lists some poss causes. However I have now installed Classic WB, took a few hours to install as I had a 200mb image but it completed without errors.

The only problem now is the amount of memory it uses. I will probably go post in the classic wb section to see if they can tell me how to cut some of the usage, but first I am going to read the faq's :)

With my elbox in I just get random crashing so I am guessing there lies the problem. Will have to look for anouther ram board

Steve.