20 June 2010, 14:20 | #1 |
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Floppy Drives
Right guys. i am wondering why two things are happening... I am using the emulator and the right Kick, but these are the 2 problems:
1} Lets say i am using a game with 4 disks - Why on some of the games does the emulator refuse to go to the next floppy required - and doesn't ask for anything what-so-ever ? 2} A game or prog with 2 or 3 disks will load the main prog disk - then ask for disk 2 {or 3} even though they are already loaded in the other drives ? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. In general, the emulator and Kicks work fine , but this niggle is a tad annoying |
20 June 2010, 14:30 | #2 |
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Not all game loaders are programmed to see external drives, there is nothing you can do.
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20 June 2010, 14:44 | #3 |
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I have had the issue through win uae when playing multi disk games, only suggestion i can give is what i do >press f12 when it asks for disk 2 load disk two in the same dfo that disc one was in (remove disk image one first) press cancel and it should recognise the second one within a second or two on the game
works for me anyway chris Last edited by ck1200; 20 June 2010 at 16:52. |
20 June 2010, 14:48 | #4 |
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That old chestnut again,when i had a real amiga back in the 80s 90s i used to wonder why this happened and i later found out it was because i was on 512k of ram and you needed 1 meg of ram or more to resolve this but this is not always the case most of the time its the programmers are just f**king lamers.
Then when i got rid of the amiga and moved on i thought those days were gone and now im using winuae the nightmare returns. |
20 June 2010, 16:14 | #5 |
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Hey... thanks guys, i will have a go at what Chris ck1200 suggested and see what happens. Yes the probs was the same in the REAL set ups... used to really bug me - i'd gone to all the expense of getting several FDD's and when the programmers made NO provision in the software, i had to keep switching drives off and resulting to just one external FDD {sometimes not even that was catered for } Oh well, cest lavie - just have to keep till i go completely Thanks again guys
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20 June 2010, 16:23 | #6 |
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On the emulator you can use the disk swapper to make the pain a bit less Have a look here : http://guide.abime.net/gguides/winuaeb.htm
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(Just asking because this "bug" has been reported few times) |
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20 June 2010, 16:58 | #8 | |
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i have some of the shodow of the beast titles but cannot get them to work at all through uae despite trying the same trick i used for walker, so just end up playing them on the 1200 (not that i mind that lol) |
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20 June 2010, 17:07 | #9 |
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Well, they work fine here. Might be your images? Not sure if it's worth to go into details, but let me assure you that the 3 SotB games work nicely on WinUAE
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20 June 2010, 17:14 | #10 | |
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Should have a 1200 set up in my room in the family home soon though so will be ideal when im there |
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20 June 2010, 17:22 | #11 |
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20 June 2010, 17:32 | #12 |
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lol cant wait its the one i've been building up with new parts and has the larger hd in with all the games on, it's packaged away at min but have my floppy based 1200 to keep me happy
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