SWOS Career Saves on AGA and none AGA machines

Peanutuk · 29 February 2004, 13:15

I was playing SWOS (95/96) on my old A500, starting a new career. I little later I set up my A1200 intending to play it on that. Unfortunately the career will not load. I get an error message saying a none-AGA machine machine was expected. And that's that.

Even if I Boot up with the standard chip-set the same thing occurs. Is there any way I can modify the career file to make it run on the A1200 or do I have to play the next 20 year of my career on the A500 ??

Peanutuk · 07 March 2004, 21:52

Was anyone even aware that this occured?

Enverex · 07 March 2004, 21:53

Apparently not. Never heard anyone mention it either. Though I doubt it is an all to often occurance.

blackcornflake · 07 March 2004, 22:09

That is too scary. I only looked at this thread about an hour ago, having missed its posting originally. Fwuh.

Anyway.

Yes, that is about that. The floppy version is so picky it will reject a save made on the same machine, if the hardware configuration has been altered by adding extra memory. If your A1200 has a hard drive, I strongly suggest you install Sensi via WHDLoad. I'm not 100% sure, (because I can't locate any A500 saves for testing atm, having played SWOS on the A1200 for the past 7 years), but I believe the WHDLoad installer does away with this annoying problem. No harm in trying, anyway.

Peanutuk · 07 March 2004, 22:17

At the moment it hasnt got a HD but that should change soon.

I was enjoying a great cup run as well

The problem is that the A500 is in my kitchen and it gets very cold in there.

Thanks

BippyM · 07 March 2004, 22:38

there is a way around this, you have to force SWOS into booting the a500 version of SWOS!

How do you do this... well

On disk 1 there are the files: SWOS, SWOS.rel, SWOS2 and SWOS2.rel

Basically rename SWOS & SWOS.rel to SWOS2 & SWOS2.rel, and rename SWOS2 & SWOS2.rel to SWOS & SWOS.rel

blackcornflake · 08 March 2004, 19:48

Good tip, bip.

lol, I've obviously been spoilt by years of playing SWOS from my hard drive. Completely forgot that neat little trick.

29 February 2004, 13:15	#1
Peanutuk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The North, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,082	SWOS Career Saves on AGA and none AGA machines I was playing SWOS (95/96) on my old A500, starting a new career. I little later I set up my A1200 intending to play it on that. Unfortunately the career will not load. I get an error message saying a none-AGA machine machine was expected. And that's that. Even if I Boot up with the standard chip-set the same thing occurs. Is there any way I can modify the career file to make it run on the A1200 or do I have to play the next 20 year of my career on the A500 ??

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07 March 2004, 21:52	#2
Peanutuk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The North, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,082	Was anyone even aware that this occured?

07 March 2004, 21:53	#3
Enverex Fantasy Man! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,353	Apparently not. Never heard anyone mention it either. Though I doubt it is an all to often occurance.

07 March 2004, 22:09	#4
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	That is too scary. I only looked at this thread about an hour ago, having missed its posting originally. Fwuh. Anyway. Yes, that is about that. The floppy version is so picky it will reject a save made on the same machine, if the hardware configuration has been altered by adding extra memory. If your A1200 has a hard drive, I strongly suggest you install Sensi via WHDLoad. I'm not 100% sure, (because I can't locate any A500 saves for testing atm, having played SWOS on the A1200 for the past 7 years), but I believe the WHDLoad installer does away with this annoying problem. No harm in trying, anyway.

07 March 2004, 22:17	#5
Peanutuk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The North, UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,082	At the moment it hasnt got a HD but that should change soon. I was enjoying a great cup run as well The problem is that the A500 is in my kitchen and it gets very cold in there. Thanks

07 March 2004, 22:38	#6
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	there is a way around this, you have to force SWOS into booting the a500 version of SWOS! How do you do this... well On disk 1 there are the files: SWOS, SWOS.rel, SWOS2 and SWOS2.rel Basically rename SWOS & SWOS.rel to SWOS2 & SWOS2.rel, and rename SWOS2 & SWOS2.rel to SWOS & SWOS.rel

08 March 2004, 19:48	#7
blackcornflake Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cereal box Posts: 794	Good tip, bip. lol, I've obviously been spoilt by years of playing SWOS from my hard drive. Completely forgot that neat little trick.

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