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new set of WHDload for Amiga CD32
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Maybe someone can help me with this question. I switched on the good old cd32 recently, to play a few games in A1200 modus with the expansion card I have here. All games are installed on a 4Gb CFcard, I suppose you know how it works. It was fun, but like I experienced earlier, not all games seem to work. Some I have ask for a different WHDload version, and some like ' Midnight resistance' don't work at all... Since I have some time now, I would like to try out an attempt to install a newer version of WHDload, with the right selection of slaves (games) in one go. I know in theory all slaves should work, but it is better not to count on it. Last time I sorted all slaves out, it took soooo much time.... Further that tft server, grandis.nu was not getting over 50kb/second with a recent attempt, but that could be caused by a temporary issue. I am a sort of lazy, and would like an easy solution, is there anyway to get a new WHDload included with a game package? Maybe the whole dump of a complete CF card or so. I would need a low resolution workbench, since I am running on a CRT tv. About those cd32 special slaves, they totally suck, since they skip audio cd sound. I could live without the intro's tough. But then, the A1200 versions skip the 2 or more buttons option... Another question, does anybody now if a device exists that ables an amiga cd32 to connect with a 0 modem cable to another Amiga or network? (like between 2 normal commodore amiga's for a racegame like lotus2) Or is that really asked too much of the old beast? The point is this, everytime I adjust something to the software on the cf card, I need to take the complete entension card out of the expansion port. I'm afraid I kill my cd32 like that. Thanks for all hints! Last edited by leeuwtje; 12 August 2019 at 01:21. |
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not sure on most of the things you asked about, but i was also worried about constantly unplugging the expansion from the CD32 , so i just bought a longer ide cable so my cf card is resting on top of the cd32 itself ,so easy access without having to keep unplugging the actual tf card all the time.
i believe the TF330 does have wifi but it isnt turned on as its buggy/slow , i think a google search would show how to enable it if you have this card,dont think the tf328 has this function,altho i could be wrong. i do have the latest version of whdload on my card and many updated games after many hours searching, but unfortunatly its a 16gb image backup and i have no where to upload a file this large to. Sorry i cant be more help. |
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update to latest whdload. Then don't try to create the ultimate collection of games that all work.
Instead, focus on games you like very much and get the latest whdload distros from whddownload.com and latest slave from whdload.de, for each game. You'll find that more and more slaves support 2 button joystick/joypad controls/don't need the keyboard to play. |
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https://www.whdownload.com/ is horribly out of date jotd; since 2011
The lastest are on the EAB File Server i.e. Retroplay's WHD uploads |
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Thanks guys,
Xubidoo, a longer IDE cable, that is a good idea, it never occured to me.... It's not a very beautiful solution, but indeed it solves the handicap. Jotd, true, not all games are needed. Maybe best is to make a test area with WHDload and copy to the cfcard afterwards. DamienD: Thanks, but last time I tried, It was limited to 50 kb /second and my filezilla client gave my errors with every attempt of downloading. Weird. I will try it again this weekend. |
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I'm downloading now. Filezilla still doesn't work. I use another ftp client, but the speed is 50 kb/second. I just let it run at the background.
Is there a list somewhere for modified 2 button whdload slaves? Would be great. Some A1200 slaves have music where the cd32 whdload version has none. I would prefer the A1200 version with music and 2 buttons then. Is there a list for these cases? The cd32 games that have cd tracks as music, are better to run native. Simon the sorcerer, Beneath a steel sky, Battle chess, stuff like that. |
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WIP for 2 button controls whdload: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...oCo/edit#gid=0
and a bit of self-promotion: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=94158 custom-made CD32 ISOs with audio tracks that beat A1200 soundtracks, and even sometimes original CD32 releases (Premiere) |
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Thanks Jotd! I will check that out. That's very good info.
FTP: I see now. Ok, I will just be patinet then and config my ftp client to keep retry logging in. I understand Why easy, if things can be done difficult? Last edited by leeuwtje; 17 August 2019 at 23:48. |
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Jotd,
For example, in the downloads there are many alternatives for many different games. If I would use your excel sheet to select 2 button games for cd32 (and the music in) which one of the retroplay games would I select in the example of let's say Alienbreed: AlienBreedTowerAssault_v1.2_0279.lha AlienBreedTowerAssault_v1.2_CD32.lha AlienBreedTowerAssault11_v1.2_AGA_2331.lha AlienBreedTowerAssault_v1.2_AGA_0279.lha AlienBreedTowerAssault11_v1.2_2331.lha Is the cd32 the one with no music? Which of those has music and buttons? Same for the example with Soccer Kid? |
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It's file name with informations. After game title you have slave version with "v" letter. In this case v1.2 means it's 1.2 version of slave. Number on the end it's SPS number. AGA means it's AGA version, try always get AGA version since you have AGA hardware.
Alien Breed Tower Assault additionally have two game versions (1.0 or 1.1), so 11 in filename means it's v1.1 of game itself. Game have CD32 joypad support, at least version 1.1 and of course CD32. Difference is in default settings: disk version have joystick as default control, CD32 version have joypad as default control. About joypad control, there is also this topic. Last edited by Solo Kazuki; 18 August 2019 at 00:07. |
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Yes, Solo, very good I understand, thanks for your clear explanation.
What I try to do, is selecting by Jotd's excel sheet all whdload games that were originally for A1200, but are modded for cd32 gamepad. See, in many default cd32 whdload slaves, there is no music, cause on the original cd32 cd-rom music was in audio tracks. There is simply no code I guess. If it does support music, it was a cd32 game that was simply ported from A500 or AGA A1200 in the time. Like CD32 slave 'arabian nights' (You could say the hack in this case was done on the original.) (many of them). For the first kind a good example is Soccer kid. There are 2 main versions. There is a A1200 slave version and a CD32 slave version. The cd32 version will support 2 buttons but no music, only game sounds. (FX) The A1200 slave version offers in game music, but no 2th button... In this example It is best to run a A1200 slave with a cd32 pad modification. (a hack done much later in time by the whdload team coders.) Some of the whdload slaves have this, some have not. Since there are many games available based on many different versions, it is impossible to find the 2 button modded ones easily. This is where Jodt's excel sheet is coming in handy. (I think...) What I need to know, is how to use that list and choose the right version among 10 different version of an individual game at the eab server. In my opinion there should be a separated folder for "modded AGA A1200 games for CD32 gamepad including all FX/music sounds" at the server. CD32 games not in this list should be run from CDROM... Complex?, well there is a collection of CD32 titles that should be played from cd-rom only, cause they contain many audio track sounds that A1200 whdload versions will lack completely. Last edited by leeuwtje; 18 August 2019 at 12:50. |
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there aren't a lot of CD32 games that have audio tracks.
from memory: Oscar, Bubble & Squeak, Zool, Fire & Ice (where you can enable on-chip music too) A lot of CD32 titles have normal on-chip music. |
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Other CD32 games that have audio tracks, off the top of my head:
... Marvin's Marvellous Adventure ... Ultimate Body Blows |
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Zool 2, Simon the sorcerer, Beneath a steel sky, Like said: Soccer Kid, battle Chess, Disposable hero, chaos engine, kang-fu, Microcosm,arcade pool, Brian the lion, guardian, maybe not all impressive games, but I'm sure I forgot a few.....
True, For many of those the WHDload cd32 version only offers FX sound, no music. For some with huge cd track audio WHDload isn't an option at all if you want the real thing. |
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What a mess! My download finished this afternoon. I've been working now a couple of hours to find a solution for some structure. Seen the time I used I will share my solution in the chaos. Maybe it is of use to someone else.
Ok. If you do what I did, download the whole WHDload lha folder on the eab server: ftp://ftp:amiga@grandis.nu/Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay/ Think again if you really want this...But if you do it, and I'm sure someone will, I have some Windows o.s. Powershell lines here to help you out filtering the whole mess in something usable. I am working on windows today, but I am sure there is a Linux terminal solution to. What you will end up with is a chaos of cd32, Demo, CDTV, AGA, different languages etc etc.. Very, very..., unpractical if you need to set up a structure on an Amiga. The only thing that makes sense just after downloading is a separation of alphabetic folder order. I assume here, you Download on your D drive in this folder: D:\RetroPlay\WHDload Or replace it with the one you use. Create an extra folder called: D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\ and in this folder create the following separated subfolders: Demo AGA CD32 CDTV _De _Fr _It _Cz _Es _Se You will have the languages Deutsch, Francais, Italian, Czech, Espagnol, Swedish ??? Than Start a powershell terminal and give these commands one by one in chronological order: (These powershell lines will let your os scan through the Downloaded folders and move the lha's to several logical folders.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*Demo_*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\Demo_" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_AGA*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\AGA" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*CD32*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\CD32" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*CDTV*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\CDTV" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_De*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_De" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_Fr*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_Fr" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_It*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_It" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_Cz*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_Cz" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_Es*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_Es" get-childitem -Recurse -path "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload" -filter '*_Se*.lha' | move-item -Destination "D:\RetroPlay\WHDload2\_Se" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After this check every single folder to see if there is nothing you didn't want to take out. Keep the languages you like or, for english only delete all the _xx folders At this moment you have a sensible separation of lha compressed games in logical order. The original folder has the alphabetic order, with only english, no AGA, non CD32,CDTV and most important no DEMO crap. At this point you can starting unpacking the lha's in each folder. Or do it on a real amiga, it could be better. I would only do the folders you need. Store the rest as a backup. UPDATE: DAMIEND adviced against below procedure: ---------------------------------- I did this for each subfolder: The lines below with windows commandline and 7zip: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html cd (folder name here like Demo_ , AGA, CD32 ,etc etc....) mkdir /lha "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x *.lha move *.lha lha\ ---------------------------------- Crazy, but it worked.... Only still no selection of modded 2-button A1200 Aga WHDload slaves...... Last edited by leeuwtje; 19 August 2019 at 00:10. |
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You shouldn't be extracting any of these .LHA archives via Windows as you will definitely run into problems later; due to files / folders that contain non-Windows compliant stuff like "spaces only" or contain hashes / other characters that Windows cannot handle etc.
...not to mention that protection bits are lost. Only do this extraction process on a real Amiga or inside emulation; hence why they are .LHA archives, and have been created on a real Amiga or via emulation to begin with. |
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Thanks DamienD, fair enough.
Ok. Skip the windows extraction part! I will update the instruction. DamienD, do you have any hints to get that amiga batch extraction a bit speedy? Not everyone has a OS4 amiga or similar and I don't like them anyway. UAE can be switched to the fastest emulated processor, but how long will that take? I suppose you could mount a windows folder as a harddrive in winUAE, what would be your detailed advice? Last edited by leeuwtje; 19 August 2019 at 00:06. |
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Yes, setting say a "68030 CPU" with "Fastest possible" should do the trick, as well as mounting a Windows folder as a hard drive containing all .LHA archives for the source To be honest I don't really use WHDLoad, in my collection there are only 18 of these out of 2760 games... so only really ever need to extract one here and there, on occasion. I'm sure others can offer better advise |
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The combination of "fastest posssible" CPU emulation speed and JIT (needs minimum a 68020 CPU) for extracting archives works pretty fast.
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