What games wont boot on an A500 from an external drive?

[Fuzzball]

I have read that some games will not boot on the A500 from an external drive even when using a boot selector switch. Is there a list of these games anywhere?

[kremiso]

i suppose many included in this list, multi-disk game wise :

https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p...75&postcount=1

plus, many single disk games too i believe

[SkulleateR]

Almost none of the older games work when booted from DF1/2/3 due to the Bootloaders or Hardcoded DF0: Parts

The List would be shorter when looking for working games

[Fuzzball]

Does a boot switch in an A500 solve this though and make the external look like df0? I've read a lot and am confused

[Nor Bert]

If the external floppy drive is seen as DF0 (bootselector), then all games will work from it.
But if as df1: then only some will launch, provided the Amiga has a minimum kick 2.x

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by Fuzzball

Does a boot switch in an A500 solve this though and make the external look like df0? I've read a lot and am confused

The hw boot selector should make it completely transparent, i.e. it should work.


One thing is that each additional disk drive causes some chip memory to be allocated (kickstart <2), and thus there's not enough memory to run the game in some cases with more than one drive. This could be the issue you're seeing. A boot selector with a feature to disable df1 could solve that.

[stx2199]

not even on the A1200 in which you can choose from which drive to boot ....99% of the commercial games will not run from DF1
fact is that most of them boots but crash after

[Photon]

Originally Posted by Fuzzball

I have read that some games will not boot on the A500 from an external drive even when using a boot selector switch. Is there a list of these games anywhere?

Whoever wrote that probably doesn't have one, or has a faulty one.

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

The hw boot selector should make it completely transparent, i.e. it should work.


One thing is that each additional disk drive causes some chip memory to be allocated (kickstart <2), and thus there's not enough memory to run the game in some cases with more than one drive. This could be the issue you're seeing. A boot selector with a feature to disable df1 could solve that.

On 1.3, setting the external drive to DF0 disables the internal one. The internal drive is only mounted as DF1 on higher kickstarts.

I've had no issues.

The boot switch in the ACA500/Plus menu works the same as the hardware switches.

[LordCrass]

I have a software-selectable boot drive switch which works by hitting ctrl+amiga+amiga 3 times quickly to swap the boot drive, but it's flaky on my system. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Eventually get it to swap, play a game for a while, then hit ctrl+amiga+amiga once to reboot for another game, and it swaps on you, even though you didn't do it 3 times.

Might be because I have a pistorm in this system? Anyone else have similar issue? For my other A500, I got one that uses a physical switch to avoid this.

[Retro1234]

As others have written 99% of Games need to boot from DF0 - I believe something like this makes the external drive appear as DF0.

https://retrolemon.co.uk/amiga-upgra...-selector.html