Is it KICKSTART 2.05 or My Amiga's fault?

[c0dehunter]

Hello All,
When I use ADF2Disk to convert games or demos into real A600HD floppy disks, my Amiga can NOT read them. ADF2Disk reports that it has finished writing to disk, but when I boot from this newly created floppy, my A600HD bypasses it and boots directly back to WB. I can hear that it reads for couple of seconds from the floppy disk, but it just keep booting back to WB.

Why is the reason for this? I have 2.05 KICKSTART and I am running WB 2.1 on my A600HD. I am also using 1.4HD floppies (can't find DD floppies no more, although I had just ONE single DD, and I used that and still my A600 bypassed it and booted into WD instead of launching the game, or demo.)

Questions:
1) If most Amiga games are written for KICKSTART 1.3, then how come A1200 is touted as the best of the Amigas? What about 'big-box" Amiga systems, such as A2000, A3000, A4000? Could they run games/demos as good as an A500 with plain 1.3 KS?

2) Why my A600HD with 2.05 KS can NOT run these games?

3) Is there a better utility than ADF2Disk for converting ADF images back into real Amiga floppy disks?

4) How can I convert the .dms format games/demos (mostly demos) back into real Amiga floppy format to be played back on my A600HD?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[lost_loven]

I haven't had any problems using adf2disk. I do format while writing the disks .. maybe thats the difference. I have used hd and dd disks. The disks have worked on my a500 as well on my a3k.. (written on my a3k) . If the game does not work with kickstart 3.1, i softkick to 1.3 and that usually does the trick.. eg starwars and toki. although whdload is great too!

lost

[Hewitson]

I recommend using the verify option with adf2disk: "adf2disk <filename> VERIFY".

Download DMS from Aminet to write the DMS files to disk.

The majority of software written for 1.3 will work on 3.1 without any problems.

[Skope]

Using above mentioned DMS, in a shell type:

dms write yourfile.dms to df0:

It will simply ask you to insert a disk in df0: and press enter. After that you're done. You may use whatever floppy drive you have, df1: for instance.

And as for which is the best Amiga, that (as always) depends on what you're going to do with it. Personally I would never hail the A1200 as the best Amiga but it's the one (along with my A500) that fits my needs best. Big box Amigas run games and demos just as well (or bad) as the deskies do.

[c0dehunter]

I have downloaded and transferred DMS (actually it is called dms111.run) onto my CF card. When I run it, it unpacks this file, but I am not sure where it gets unpacked: I even use show ALL FILES, but I can not find the extracted files. UPDATE: For some reason, DMS showed up and I tried to copy a DMS file onto a floppy, it copied to track 80, then I got a NOT A DOS DISK error. I am trying to FORMAT these floppies using X-Copy (using the option (D)OS) to see if I can get them to work.

[c0dehunter]

Do you know why I get the "Not a DOS disk in device DF0" error? I even used X-COPY to format this floppy diskette and it even showed as a valid disk on my WB (I could see its name).

[Skope]

The disk is probably just fine. Lots of games used non-dos custom formats back in the day. Try booting the disk, it should load.

[c0dehunter]

More UPDATE: OK, it seems to be that my floppy DRIVE has some sort issue: When I insert a floppy diskette, if I don't hear it click loud, then it won't boot the game/demo. If it does, then it will boot it correctly. How can I fix/clean/re-align it?

Thanks!

[Hewitson]

My guess as to why DMS didn't show up at first is because you are using WB rather than the CLI, and you haven't "Updated" the drawer.

It's absolutely pointless to format a floppy before using adf2disk/dms.

Sounds like the sensor in your drive might be dirty/stuck, but I'll let someone with more experience give advice on that issue.