Creating a hardfile in WinUAE

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Soopytwist

I have no idea. I've had them for well over 10 years. I've put them on my Dropbox if you want to have a look:

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They've always worked just fine in WinUAE until I started messing around with WHDLoad.

I've removed your link as we cannot upload KS ROMs.

I've quickly downloaded them beforehand and will take a look for the purposes of helping you out; I obviously don't need them...

Be right back

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Edit: unlike Foebane said, I would avoid using "Cloanto's Amiga Forever" .ROMs; in the past they have been known to cause incompatibity with some WHDLoad slaves.

What ROMs did you use then, DamienD? I only suggested the link because I got my ROMs from Amiga Forever 2012, but it was a bit of a puzzle renaming the files according to the table at the link, so I would imagine that "briefer" filenames would be harder to figure out.

EDIT: I've used the AF 2012 Kickstarts in association with ClassicWB Lite for a long time now and had no issues. Maybe, if the WHDLoad version is older, there will be problems?

[DamienD]

Ok, ran a scan of all your ROMs through the latest TOSEC Dats...

Also, I assume that "kick.rom" is the one you've renamed to "kick34005.a500"?

That one is actually the "overdumped" ROM: Kickstart v1.3 r34.005 (1987-12)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV)[o].rom

It's the wrong size i.e. 512KB and the KS 1.3 ROM should be 256KB... that's probably why your get the error.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Foebane

What ROMs did you use then, DamienD?

...none of the encrypted Cloanto ones that's for sure

I use the original Commodore ROMs

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by DamienD

...none of the encrypted Cloanto ones that's for sure

I use the original Commodore ROMs

By original, do you mean from real hardware? Not all of us have that option.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Foebane

By original, do you mean from real hardware? Not all of us have that option.

Ever heard of TOSEC Foebane? In there you will find the original Commodore / verified ROMs...

I don't have any Amiga computers anymore; and haven't done since my expanded A500 back in the early 90s.

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ever heard of TOSEC Foebane? In there you will find the original Commodore / verified ROMs...

I don't have any Amiga computers anymore; and haven't done since my expanded A500 back in the early 90s.

I've often wondered if TOSEC is legal, and if Cloanto were so keen to be the sole providers of Amiga Kickstarts, wouldn't they kick up a fuss and try to get them removed?

[Soopytwist]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ok, ran a scan of all your ROMs through the latest TOSEC Dats...

Also, I assume that "kick.rom" is the one you've renamed to "kick34005.a500"?

That one is actually the "overdumped" ROM: Kickstart v1.3 r34.005 (1987-12)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV)[o].rom

It's the wrong size i.e. 512KB and the KS 1.3 ROM should be 256KB... that's probably why your get the error.

I'm afraid you've lost me there. I haven't renamed anything. I just had those ROMs from god knows where from, a long time ago. I just had them in the WinUAE Roms folder I've not done anything else with them!

EDIT

Here's a screenshot of which are now my old ROMs, something tells me these are too old:
https://imgur.com/TLPre9E
As I said I've had them for a very long time and have no idea where I got them from. I said well over 10 years before but they're probably older.

I've just "acquired" some new ones:
https://imgur.com/5pgXGUW
The one highlighted is the one I've got set in WinUAE, but that's all I've done with them. I've not renamed anything or put them anywhere else; was I supposed to?
https://imgur.com/IXk2H05

I'll admit I really don't have much clue what I'm doing. WinUAE has just sort of worked with what I've had for years. It's only now wanting to use WHDLoad that things have got complicated. For the record I own an A500, A500+ and A600. I don't own a A1200 and appreciate not having one and acquiring the KS is frowned upon. The WHDLoad games I've downloaded I have original disks for in the loft but they're more than likely degraded to the point of no longer working. I've had them for 25 years.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Foebane

I've often wondered if TOSEC is legal, and if Cloanto were so keen to be the sole providers of Amiga Kickstarts, wouldn't they kick up a fuss and try to get them removed?

We are going way off topic here Foebane so last comment in relation to this.

TOSEC is a preservation / categorising project; it contains the original Commodore ROMs (and Cloanto ones) as this helps people compare against what they ripped from their Amiga computers.

Edit: shall we talk about the legality of "packaged" WHDLoad slaves with the games installed then; which I know you use yourself?

Are you not supposed to install from the original disks that you actually own?

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Soopytwist

I'm afraid you've lost me there. I haven't renamed anything. I just had those ROMs from god knowns where from a long time ago. I just had them in the WinUAE Roms folder I've not done anything else with them!

Well you needed too...

These ROMs from your WinUAE ROMs folder need to be put into Amiga emulation, copied across to your hard drive under "Devs:Kickstarts" folder and renamed accordingly for use with WHDLoad.

From looking at your ROMs, I assume this was "kick.rom" that you renamed to "kick34005.a500" and as mentioned; it's the incorrect "overdumped" one.

[DamienD]

You've edited your post so I'll comment on that.

I ran a scan of your ROMs through TOSEC; all are good except for "kick.rom" which is actually "Kickstart v1.3 r34.005 (1987-12)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV)[o].rom":

Also "Kickstart Bootstrap (1985)(Commodore)(A1000).rom" is actually "underdumped" i.e. "Amiga 1000 ROM Bootstrap (1985)(Commodore)(A1000)[u].rom" but you don't need this.

"Kickstart v1.3 r34.005 (1987-12)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV)[o].rom" will work in WinUAE but not WHDLoad as it's quite fussy.

Regarding "I've not renamed anything or put them anywhere else; was I supposed to?"... yes, see my post above this one.

Let's put it another way, if you didn't use your current ROMs; which ROMs are you using under "Devs:Kickstarts" i.e. these files from looking at your image:

• 39115_ROMKick
• kick33180.a500
• kick34005.a500
• kick36143.a3000
• kick37175.a500
• kick40068.a1200
• kick40068.a4000

Usually you would move your ROMs there and rename accordingly.

[Soopytwist]

Man I am a dumbass. I didn't realise there were all these other steps. The guide for WHDLoad made no mention of this stuff! I just watched a Youtube video which showed everything I should have so I ditched what I didn't need, downloaded what I should have and copied over those .ROMs to Devs\Kickstarts and renamed them accordingly. Now Frontier works (though only with 4Mb Z2 Fast RAM for some reason. Flashback only works if I disable Fast RAM.

Question: Why was this so blooming difficult? Why can't someone create a package with everything in it, instead of all this malarkey? Heck even create a simple .hdf file with Workbench already installed, everything in C, Devs, WHDLoad already installed, that bloody little OSEmu.400...

*sigh*

Anyway I think I'm good to go.... although ClassicWB does look nice.

[DamienD]

Please also read the PM that I sent you; it has important information contained within that will help

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Soopytwist

I've done all that but Frontier still doesn't load:
https://imgur.com/NvUhPfD

Yes, Frontier needs the Kickstart "Kick34005.a500"

Kick34005.a500 = KS ROM v1.3 (A500,A1000,A2000) rev 34.5 (256k) [315093-02]

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Soopytwist

Question: Why was this so blooming difficult? Why can't someone create a package with everything in it, instead of all this malarkey? Heck even create a simple .hdf file with Workbench already installed, everything in C, Devs, WHDLoad already installed, that bloody little OSEmu.400...

Because of legality; it would contain a fully installed Workbench system and Kickstart ROMs.

...it could never be shared on EAB; but there's probably something as you describe on Torrent sites I guess.

BTW; you don't need "that bloody little OSEmu.400" unless you are planning on using "JST" instead of WHDLoad.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by DamienD

BTW; you don't need "that bloody little OSEmu.400" unless you are planning on using "JST" instead of WHDLoad.

I'm sorry Damiano , there are some games that still need to OSEmu.400 in C: or in the game folder, for example Odyssey OSEmu.400 is hidden in the Data folder

[DamienD]

Just downloaded Retroplay's Odyssey_v2.1_2854.lha from the EAB File Server.

...no such "OSEmu.400" contained anywhere within.

"OSEmu.400" was on my "ClassicWB Lite 3.1" .HDF though; renamed this, extracted the above / ran Odyssey and all is working fine.


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More information; then you are using an old slave i.e. v1.1 as opposed to the latest v2.1 (noted from your screenshot)

Read what was changed in v2.0 here, important part in bold: http://www.whdload.de/games/Odyssey.html

V2.0 (16-Aug-2017) done by JOTD:
- adapted to WHDLoad v17: trainer configurable on whdload splash screen
- slave rewritten to use kickemu instead of OSEmu (fixes #0002977,#0002716,#0002600)
- another version supported (issue #0003075)
- separated trainer options (lives/energy)

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So, any other WHDLoad slaves that you say still need "OSEmu.400" Carlo?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Ok thank you Damiano, is a correction of 2018, all other versions need "OSEmu.400". I remember there are other games that required "OSEmu.400", now I do not know if they were all correct

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Ok thank you Damiano, is a correction of 2018

2017 with v2.0 actually (as I quoted)

V2.0 (16-Aug-2017) done by JOTD:
- adapted to WHDLoad v17: trainer configurable on whdload splash screen
- slave rewritten to use kickemu instead of OSEmu (fixes #0002977,#0002716,#0002600)
- another version supported (issue #0003075)
- separated trainer options (lives/energy)

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Ok he screwed me english, 1:1 this time we equalize , it is always nice and interesting to discuss count, if I have time I will look for other games that require "OSEmu.400", let's see if I'm lucky