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If its interesting to someone floppy created by DamienD also work on A500Plus and A600 with 4MB Fast RAM.
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Cheers for the information AMIGASYSTEM; didn't actually test with the configuration you've specified via WinUAE
I will say that it does actually run with lower specs to what I thought AGA wise (considering files are extracted / run from RAM): An "A1200 - 2MB Chip & 2MB Fast RAM configuration" will suffice also |
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For lower spec Amiga try to use the CD32 version of the game. I made the playing screen smaller and removed the water animations, so it should be quicker.
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Have you got a link for Powerdata? Any chance that you could upload the 2 disks that you made with Powerdata? Nice work amiman99 & Damien |
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Hello Arnie, then Power Data is a commercial program that I have for so many years and it serves to compress data onlyi (images, music, icons, databases etc..) you can not compress executables that instead can be compressed with PowerPacker. The data in the system will boot automatically unpacked by a utility called PPLoadSeg to put on top of the startup-sequence, and a library called PowerPacker library to put into libs.
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Agreed Arnie; this is very interesting indeed and could revolutionise the way in which I create these "HD install" --> "ADFs" packages. Though of course extra work needed but once created, all good
...I mean if all files can be compressed them maybe there's no need to unpack to RAM: (and even if there is the footprint is reduced so lower specs needed) |
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DamienD is not as easy as it seems, experience for you What I can say most of the Amiga games are already compressed, this is due to the little floppy space used by many models AMiGA, with A4000 instead there are the HD floppy, I've also an external, in this case the game Marco Marco Gregorio's It would enter perfectly.
There is also the ability to create virtual bootable floppy from Hardisk or RAM as shown in my old video attached below,but to do this you have to have a lot of RAM or Hard Disk. [ Show youtube player ] |
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There's been a few times that I tried compacting EXE files and it's failed with 4 out of 5 (or even 5 out of 5) programs that I've used. ...but then, also as you've mentioned, there are occasions that maybe some form of compression can work. Trial and error at the end of the day I guess Just like with the "Moon Child" disks I created and you gave great suggestions with. I had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the size down: ... Split / join. ... Compress (you used "PowerPacker" but this was always unsuccessful for me so ended up using "CrunchyDat"). Again, thanks for all your input. It's great to try new technics. Yes, it may take a few hours and at the end still fail but all good |
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EDIT: I remembered that it is not "PPLoadSeg" the command to use in the startup, but you have to put "PowerData", "PPLoadSeg" you have to use it when you compress executables with PowerPacker. Soon as possible to do new tests with floppy and make my videos. Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 17 September 2016 at 14:33. |
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Did the test and the game starts though packed with Powerdata, only problem is that the "Moduli Music" if compressed with powerdata on will not be recognized by the game, tried to compress the modules even with PowerPacker and the problem remains.
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Well the problem MOD solved, used PPatcher in startup-sequence, you can now also be compacting audio files MOD. Marco Gregorio's Adventures Now you could fit everything on a HD floppy and run with base A1200 (2MB RAM).
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Wow, well done AMIGASYSTEM!!!
...now I just need to learn how you did all this. |
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Nothing has changed from the procedure video, Just add the PP command (PPatcher) in cima alla startup-sequence, I enclose Floppy "HD" Bootable for high-density players.
EDIT New Video Tutorial Added [ Show youtube player ] Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 05 October 2016 at 20:05. |
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