Space Hulk Disk #3 w gotek

Vaninna · 07 March 2016, 23:50

Hi,

I have a need to get creeped out, and that means I have to play Space Hulk...

I got the Gotek floppy emulator, all games work fine but Space Hulk. When asked "Please insert Disk #3" and I switch to it nothing happens.

Anyone had this problem or know how to solve it?

Superman · 08 March 2016, 12:32

I just tried it for myself and as you say it doesn't detect a disk swap at all. I am using the Fairlight crack but will try another version to see if it makes a difference.

Edit: I tried the Anthrox crack and it's just the same unfortunately.

Vaninna · 08 March 2016, 14:16

...I also tried Fairlight and some others. I also tried on floppy a while ago, but I never got it working. I think it recognised disk #3 but then hung.

Arnie · 08 March 2016, 15:04

Which Amiga are you using?

Vaninna · 08 March 2016, 15:48

A500 w. 1mb
Switchable rom too, but I am not sure how to use it. 1.3 rom am using most likely. When I tried on floppy that A500 was vanilla.

Arnie · 08 March 2016, 16:00

Does the switchable rom have a switch? If not, you usually hold down the reset keys for around 3 seconds or more.

The 1.3 rom screen is white with a blue hand holding a disk and the 2.0 rom is purple and has an anim of a disk loading into a floppy drive.

Vaninna · 08 March 2016, 17:30

I am using 1.3 rom, but I do not know if it matters in this case.

Vaninna · 08 March 2016, 21:18

I found this old thread:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=3287

Quote:

I D/L Space Hulk from PE2000.net but Disk 3 is knackered. Anyone got a working ADF of Disk 3 that you could upload to the Zone. Pretty Please.....

I did a search on "Space Hulk":

Code:

Searching for: /Commodore_Amiga/.*space.*hulk
Limit is: 30

/Commodore_Amiga/Game/Disk/Amiga_Games_Disk_Library_Vol1/S/Space Hulk .1 .adf
/Commodore_Amiga/Game/Disk/Amiga_Games_Disk_Library_Vol1/S/Space Hulk .2 .adf
/Commodore_Amiga/Game/Disk/Amiga_Games_Disk_Library_Vol1/S/Space Hulk .3 .adf
/Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay/HDLoaders/SpaceHulk_HD_AndreBarton_1279.lha
/Commodore_Amiga/Retroplay/JST/SpaceHulk_v1.2_1279_JST.lha
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3).zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3)[cr ATX].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3)[cr ATX][h SPL].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3)[cr FLT].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3)[cr FLT][a].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 2 of 3)[cr FLT].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3).zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3)[cr FLT].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3)[cr FLT][a2].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3)[cr FLT][a].zip
/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/Games/[ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-12-24_CM)/S/Space Hulk (demo-playable) (1993)(Electronic Arts).zip

Hits found 16/30

Which will work with what?? And is it not weird that there is only 1 disk #2 image?

Superman · 08 March 2016, 21:23

I have tried various disk 3 images and none worked with the Gotek. They do work ok with WinUAE though so the problem lies with the Gotek firmware.

Vaninna · 08 March 2016, 21:27

Ah, too bad. Thanks. I wonder if it would be the same thing with a floppy drive.

Superman · 08 March 2016, 21:36

I'm sure a proper floppy drive would load the game fine. There is a known issue with the cortex firmware and certain games not recognising disk swaps. Soccer Kid and Goal are 2 others that come to mind. Try them for yourself and you will see.

Arnie · 09 March 2016, 10:40

@Vaninna, I used:

Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3).zip
Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 2 of 3)[cr FLT].zip
Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3).zip

In WinUAE default A500 1.2. No problems.

Vaninna · 09 March 2016, 10:46

Ok, that sounds promising at least. I tried the demo and that also worked fine. I need to to try those disks later.

turrican9 · 27 March 2016, 16:23

I've tried various cracked versions of Space Hulk in my Gotek and no go.

Vaninna · 27 March 2016, 21:40

I've tried numerous combinations of those disks but none worked. As matter of fact, none worked on floppy either, but I assumed that that was due to non expanded memory (only 512k).

Arnie · 27 March 2016, 22:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vaninna

A500 w. 1mb
Switchable rom too, but I am not sure how to use it. 1.3 rom am using most likely. When I tried on floppy that A500 was vanilla.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vaninna

I've tried numerous combinations of those disks but none worked. As matter of fact, none worked on floppy either, but I assumed that that was due to non expanded memory (only 512k).

How much memory do you have?

Have you thought about upgrading the firmware to HXC?

Vaninna · 27 March 2016, 23:05

I have 2 A500:
one "vanilla" i.e. floppy drive and only 512k
and one with switchable rom 1.3 and 2.0, 1 mb ram, and a gotek drive.

I'm not familiar with HXC firmware, I do not even know what firmware I have now. :/

Arnie · 27 March 2016, 23:11

The standard Gotek uses Cortex firmware. It should tell you when you boot from the selector adf.

The HXC firmware is essentially an upgrade for the Gotek and many have said that it has better disk swap detection.

turrican9 · 28 March 2016, 03:21

Hold on, I will test Space Hulk on real floppy on one of my A500s. Kickstart 1.3 and 1MB RAM

turrican9 · 28 March 2016, 03:27

yup, it worked. After I put in disk 3 it loaded for a few seconds then asked me to put back disk 1 and game loaded up

Edit: used a version cracked by Fairlight. Already tried it in my Gotek. So it looks like the Gotek has issues with disk swapping on a few games. However, the problem is with very few games I think, so it does not render the Gotek with the standard Cortex firmware useless in any way. btw, Space Hulk seemed kinda cool. never tried it before. Graphics was pretty bad though so was very hard to see what was going on. Amiga was never made for 3D games so most of these games looks very blocky or runs very slow. This game runs smooth in a very small window with kinda blocky 3D graphics.

Also, it sounded like it tried to access my second disk drive. So it probably supports two disk drives. I only tried DF0 for testing purposes. Maybe using an external Gotek DF1 in addition to the DF0 one can get around this problem. I heard that with soccer kid it works if you also have a DF1 Gotek to put the second disk in when the game asks for it. I could test by mounting one of my other Gotek drives in my DF1 disk drive chassi.

07 March 2016, 23:50	#1
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	Space Hulk Disk #3 w gotek Hi, I have a need to get creeped out, and that means I have to play Space Hulk... I got the Gotek floppy emulator, all games work fine but Space Hulk. When asked "Please insert Disk #3" and I switch to it nothing happens. Anyone had this problem or know how to solve it?

28 March 2016, 03:27	#20
turrican9 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Norway Age: 46 Posts: 881	yup, it worked. After I put in disk 3 it loaded for a few seconds then asked me to put back disk 1 and game loaded up Edit: used a version cracked by Fairlight. Already tried it in my Gotek. So it looks like the Gotek has issues with disk swapping on a few games. However, the problem is with very few games I think, so it does not render the Gotek with the standard Cortex firmware useless in any way. btw, Space Hulk seemed kinda cool. never tried it before. Graphics was pretty bad though so was very hard to see what was going on. Amiga was never made for 3D games so most of these games looks very blocky or runs very slow. This game runs smooth in a very small window with kinda blocky 3D graphics. Also, it sounded like it tried to access my second disk drive. So it probably supports two disk drives. I only tried DF0 for testing purposes. Maybe using an external Gotek DF1 in addition to the DF0 one can get around this problem. I heard that with soccer kid it works if you also have a DF1 Gotek to put the second disk in when the game asks for it. I could test by mounting one of my other Gotek drives in my DF1 disk drive chassi. Last edited by turrican9; 28 March 2016 at 03:43.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Space Hulk problem	Retroplay	project.WHDLoad	111	25 June 2022 19:31
Space Hulk remake	Shoonay	Retrogaming General Discussion	24	03 May 2009 15:14
space hulk WHDLOAD	dlfrsilver	project.WHDLoad	6	25 February 2007 13:49
Space Hulk	haynor666	Games images which need to be WHDified	6	04 July 2003 06:23
Space Hulk Disk 3 ADF needed	coffeedotbean	request.Old Rare Games	2	08 February 2002 23:53

08 March 2016, 12:32	#2
Superman Super Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Wakefield Age: 48 Posts: 1,272	I just tried it for myself and as you say it doesn't detect a disk swap at all. I am using the Fairlight crack but will try another version to see if it makes a difference. Edit: I tried the Anthrox crack and it's just the same unfortunately. Last edited by Superman; 08 March 2016 at 13:36.

08 March 2016, 14:16	#3
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	...I also tried Fairlight and some others. I also tried on floppy a while ago, but I never got it working. I think it recognised disk #3 but then hung.

08 March 2016, 15:04	#4
Arnie R.I.P Smudge 18-08-16 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leicester/UK Age: 65 Posts: 3,968	Which Amiga are you using?

08 March 2016, 15:48	#5
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	A500 w. 1mb Switchable rom too, but I am not sure how to use it. 1.3 rom am using most likely. When I tried on floppy that A500 was vanilla.

08 March 2016, 16:00	#6
Arnie R.I.P Smudge 18-08-16 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leicester/UK Age: 65 Posts: 3,968	Does the switchable rom have a switch? If not, you usually hold down the reset keys for around 3 seconds or more. The 1.3 rom screen is white with a blue hand holding a disk and the 2.0 rom is purple and has an anim of a disk loading into a floppy drive.

08 March 2016, 17:30	#7
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	I am using 1.3 rom, but I do not know if it matters in this case.

08 March 2016, 21:23	#9
Superman Super Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Wakefield Age: 48 Posts: 1,272	I have tried various disk 3 images and none worked with the Gotek. They do work ok with WinUAE though so the problem lies with the Gotek firmware.

08 March 2016, 21:27	#10
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	Ah, too bad. Thanks. I wonder if it would be the same thing with a floppy drive.

08 March 2016, 21:36	#11
Superman Super Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Wakefield Age: 48 Posts: 1,272	I'm sure a proper floppy drive would load the game fine. There is a known issue with the cortex firmware and certain games not recognising disk swaps. Soccer Kid and Goal are 2 others that come to mind. Try them for yourself and you will see.

09 March 2016, 10:40	#12
Arnie R.I.P Smudge 18-08-16 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leicester/UK Age: 65 Posts: 3,968	@Vaninna, I used: Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 1 of 3).zip Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 2 of 3)[cr FLT].zip Space Hulk (1993)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 3 of 3).zip In WinUAE default A500 1.2. No problems.

09 March 2016, 10:46	#13
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	Ok, that sounds promising at least. I tried the demo and that also worked fine. I need to to try those disks later.

27 March 2016, 16:23	#14
turrican9 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Norway Age: 46 Posts: 881	I've tried various cracked versions of Space Hulk in my Gotek and no go.

27 March 2016, 21:40	#15
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	I've tried numerous combinations of those disks but none worked. As matter of fact, none worked on floppy either, but I assumed that that was due to non expanded memory (only 512k).

27 March 2016, 23:05	#17
Vaninna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Sweden Posts: 126	I have 2 A500: one "vanilla" i.e. floppy drive and only 512k and one with switchable rom 1.3 and 2.0, 1 mb ram, and a gotek drive. I'm not familiar with HXC firmware, I do not even know what firmware I have now. :/

27 March 2016, 23:11	#18
Arnie R.I.P Smudge 18-08-16 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leicester/UK Age: 65 Posts: 3,968	The standard Gotek uses Cortex firmware. It should tell you when you boot from the selector adf. The HXC firmware is essentially an upgrade for the Gotek and many have said that it has better disk swap detection.

28 March 2016, 03:21	#19
turrican9 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Norway Age: 46 Posts: 881	Hold on, I will test Space Hulk on real floppy on one of my A500s. Kickstart 1.3 and 1MB RAM

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)