Tutorial:- Setting up a 4gb CF HDD with Classic Workbench & WHDLoad for Amiga
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- This is a step by step guide to setting up Classic Workbench and WHDLoad games on a 4gb CF Card for use on a real Amiga. These are the basic steps to get you up and running, should be easy to follow for a novice user.
There are more advanced settings and file systems that can be used however I wanted to keep the guide as simple as possible for Amiga users returning to the scene.
I hope this helps :)
-Fitzsteve - Ігри
Fantastic. Worked first time for me. I used an 8gb card and made a dh2, dh3, dh4 and called them games1 games2 games3 and spread the games pack across the 2gb partitions. 9 directories for each drive. Awesome tutorial. Thank you.
I know this is an old video, but I wanted to thank you for making an easy to understand step-by-step video. I spent the weekend scouring through outdated, unclear videos when I finally found yours in an EAB thread this morning. Gave it a shot, now have Classic WB installed on my 500+/030. Cheers!
fantastic, glad it helped :)
Hi! I really hope it helps, I wrote this guide exactly for that reason, for Amigan's returning to the scene :)
Hi Fitzsteve - first of all, I'd like to thank you for this great video about the basic steps for installing WB3.1. I had difficulties to use my brand new Sandisk Ultra 8 GB cards on my ACA500+ as always dropped a write error - but thankfully, I was able to continue the process. It's a great tutorial.
This is what I love about the Amiga systems, they were future proof. I have an Atari 1040STf with a built in Hard Disk that I can not do anything like this to because Atari opted to use SCSI like Apple did...and it's not cheap to do anything like this with SCSI.
This upload is from a long time ago but I’m gonna be giving this a go on my 1200 in the next week. Hopefully nothing has changed in the last 11 years with settings etc.
Fundamentally nothing has changed this will still work on your Amiga, although there have been new versions of Workbench since which require updated Roms but it still works in very much the same way.
Hi! Thanks for the kind comment :) I was lucky not to have any issues with either my ACA1220 or ACA1232 however it can be a bit of a lottery, good news is Amigakit can do the timing fixes if you need them. Also my A1200's have had the Caps replaced and I'm using an ATX PSU converted for the Amiga, this really helps too for a stable system.
True, for a system where it is written once and read lots of times, then go CF, but if you have the hardware in your system to do it, then have the CF card in the system for games, and a physical HDD for productivity. Easy for like an A4000, maybe not for an A1200 :).
Hey Fitzsteve I can't think you enough. Your videos are invaluable. I'm sure you have saved many people lots of hours of frustration. I feel that people like yourself don't get enough recognition. Thanks so much for providing very detailed and awesome Amiga videos
fitzsteve Thank you so much for this tutorial! I (Amiga newbie) managed to install Classic Workbench 68K on a CF with heaps of WHDLoad games running awesome on my A500 plus ACA-500 :-) Looks like the next step is to find myself an ACA1232 128Mo 030 - 40MHz - MMU!
Hi! I'm delighted the tutorial helped, I hope you enjoy your Amiga :)
The ACA500 is awesome and will be even more awesome with an ACA1232 attached!
Hi! I'm really glad that you enjoyed the tutorial. I certainly think that there is a need for some more advanced ones too such as large disk support and will try to bring these to UA-cam as soon as possible!
Fantastic guide, just followed it after struggling for ages! Thank you :)
Glad it helped :)
Mate, you are a legend for doing this, very very helpful, thanks you so much, this video could not have come at a better time for me, I'm just in the process of resurrecting my 1200 after many years of it being under my bed, this has no doubt saved me lots of headaches.
Thanks for this guide Steve, finally managed to setup the CF card for my amiga.
Thomas Brokmann Glad to hear that :)
HardDiskLover Glad to hear you resolved the issue, I'm really pleased the tutorial was useful for you :)
Omg it worked! Thank you so much,i tried many others tutorials but this was IT! Nicely explained,and so logical!
Jiji Kent thanks for the message, glad it helped, the idea was to keep it as simple as possible as a very basic guide :)
I’ve referenced this video so many times. Thank you !
Glad it helped 👍
Excellent tutorial, made installation pretty straightforward, thank you! Now all I have to do is find out why the A1200 refuses to boot with all 8mb of fast RAM enabled but is perfectly happy when configured for 4mb..........these things do come along to try us :-)
Tim Marshall Glad the tut was useful :) Do you have anything plugged into the PCMCIA slot? If so you need to remove it to use all 8mb, or if you have an Amitek Hawk Ram board this is a known issue, for some reason Classic Workbench does not seem to work with this board in the 8mb configuration. I was never able to work out why.
fitzsteve Hi Steve, I still have the 3.0 ROM so PCMCIA slot works fine with a normal HD (IBM 855mb) WB3.1 and 8mb but, refuses to boot with CWB and 8mb (load gets far enough for the anti click to kick in then stops). I presume that it's a Hawk, it looks like the ones shown on various posts, although one piece of software reported it as an Apollo.....Badge engineering? The 8 meg configuration wasn't trouble free even with the 2.5" drive. Each time a game was loaded in WHD I got a yellow recoverable alert, (press left mouse button to continue) but the game loaded normally after that. I guess that I will just have to put up with 4mb. I seem to recall having a problem with an accelerator board (030/25) putting the PCMCIA slot out of use back in the day and had to fiddle around with a long IDE cable to get my PCMCIA HD working. Some things don't change :-) Anyway, thanks for this and your other interesting videos!
Great tutorial, thank you very much! **waits impatiently for CF IDE adapter to arrive**
I actually got it to work, took all night though!
Yes you can do it under emulation using adf images, you might need to use diskpart to clean the CF before winuae will let you write to it.
Great video. I just ordered a CF adaptor and 4GB card from Vesalia, and can't wait to follow your instructions, master :)
Thank you for your efforts bringing us this full tutorial!
Glad it was useful, some info might be out of date now however :)
Classic Workbench already includes the Compact Flash Device and Fat95 driver, you only need to type in CLI 'Mount CF0:' or move the file CF0 from Storage/DosDrivers to Devs/DosDrivers. Maybe you chose an install without the theme? You can add a wallpaper/backdrop by right clicking on the Workbench Bar & choose Scalos>Pattern :)
Hi! Max transfer probably isn't an issue with UAE's scsi.device, the scsi.device on the Amiga isn't compatible with modern ATA specs so that's why we have to limit the size of the data chunks, you wont notice any problems until you try to load a large file, they you will have corruptions.
If you setup the CF correctly in WinUAE there is no reason you will have issues on the Amiga :)
It can be quite complicated to get WinUAE to recognise the CF Card and allow you to partition it under emulation as Windows & WinUAE protect you from overwriting system (OS) drives. It's much easier to put an RDB in the CF card first and then WinUAE will let you do what you like with it!
Classic Workbench needs to be activated first before you can use it, all the files are inside the HDF. It is possible to copy the contents of the HDF straight to your CF card and then activate with real Disks.
Yes indeed, it is the same for all types of drives however bare in mind you need to patch the scsi.device for drives over 4gb (see Classic Workbench tutorials on the CWB website) and you also need to install a fie system like SFS or PFS3, I'm hoping to a guide on that soon!
Glad you liked the Vid, what would you like to see in a future tutorial?
Hi,
You can use either Full or Lite as long as you have 3.1Rom (or use the ACA Maprom to load 3.1Rom)
Full uses Scalos and Lite does not, depends if you want Scalos, it will be a little bit slower an use more Ram but you get IGame + screenshots pack :)
Hi! You need to have minimum 37.300 Rom (you can see in the Kickstart Screen the version you have) you also need at least a trapdoor 1mb upgrade to run WHDLoad and some Fast Ram (PCMCIA SRAM) 2 or 4mb is recommended. Kipper2k at EAB & Amibay sells 4mb Fast Ram that clips over the CPU, well worth a look at too! The version of Classic Workbench for the A600 with 2.0 Roms is called GAAE :)
I agree if you're doing work that intensively writes to the CF card you're better off with a real mechanical HD as CF cards have limited writes. I'm not so sure you're better off with an old 6gb HDD though, I've had a few and they all died quickly.
I tend to use CF's in my wedge Amiga's due to their low power consumption and low heat, I don't aggressively use these systems. I stick with real HDD's in my big box Amiga's, I bought a job lot of new old stock 20gb Seagate IDE HDD's a while back :)
Hi John K, Indeed you can setup an 8gb CF with 5 partitions but you must use another file system such as SFS or PFS3. I have used 8gb Kingston CF's, they worked fine but were not compatible with OS3.9 BB2's SCSI Update so I had to add the 'Skipromupdates "scsi.device' command, if you are using WB3.1 this isn't an issue :)
@FitzSteve, how did you obtained the 1.3 Kick33192.rom file? According to the Cloanto site this file appears to be non-existent? (used at 21:50)
totally forgot about 'max transfer' :) solved, thanks :)
Great guide. One thing I noticed is that when I partitioned my 4Gb card the Amiga initially didn't see the two big partitions to be able to format them (I think they ended up around 1640Mb each), but when running ClassicWB DirOpus was able to see and format them no problem
Now to copy all those WHDLoad games over.
One question for those who know these CF card set ups well, once you have done one, can you do a 100% duplicate on to another card without going through all the set up stuff on a real Amiga? Basically cloning the card.
Greate tutorial! Thanks Mate!
Glad it helped!
Pretty good job. Many thanks from Germany. I would like to see more....
I don't have the patience for this kind of thing now, although I've little choice.
Not to mention I'll need to find the Workbench disks but I can't get them online because you can only format to 720kb on a PC.
The other problem is getting hold of the kickstart Rom files for WinUAE.
PM me I can do it for you I'm feeling charitable today
@@fitzsteve
That's a hell of a nice thing to offer mate, I would have pm'd you through UA-cam but I've got no idea how to do it?
I'm actually blade002 on EAB but I can't pm you there either because I'm trying to restore my account of which I should have it back in a day or two.
I'll get back to you later but if you've changed your mind by then I'd fully understand.
Thanks again mate 😎😎😎
@@perihelion7445 when you get your account sorted I'm going by the same name on EAB and Amibay. I don't use Amiga. Org anymore
My account still isn't sorted despite contacting the moderator days ago so I'll get back to you soon as blade003, and sorry for the late response, had my first child a couple of months ago hence why too it's hard for me to find time to set up the CF-Card with the method you described in this video.... thanks for everything thus far mate, you're brilliant :):)
@@fitzsteve
Just something else good sir, you say in this video that you should not make partitions anymore than 2GB ... would that mean that if I were to use an 8GB CF-Card that I would need to make 4 partitons of 2GB?
Hi Guys, thanks for the comments. I've been considering a guide for 8gb guides but it seems there are a lot of variables depending on file system used as some brands seem to be incompatible with certain file systems and require further patching, it can get a bit complex and I'm not sure I can cover all eventualities, a guide could end up causing further frustration. I think it's better to read the documentation for SFS and PFS3 for anyone who would like to experiment with larger CF's/HDD's.
Hi, I've been following the tutorial, but DH1 and DH2 wont show up on the workbench screen, only DH0. I've partitioned the drive now for the 7th time and still no DH1 or DH2. I don't have anything connected to the expansion ports, since when I plug my 8mb ram in the HDD won't show up. I have Kickstart 3.0 could this be what causes the problem? I've tried it with WB 3.0 and 3.1 but the other partitions (except DH0) wont show up. Also my A1200 wont read all disks only some like the Workbench disks (I use a floppy drive emulator). If anyone knows whats going on with my A1200 please tell me.
I figured out what the problem was: My Kickstarts and the real time clock on my ram board were defective. I've removed the real time clock and replaced the kickstarts and now the HDD shows up correctly!
Now to the Floppy drive: I did the Escom fix and now 99% of the discs work :-D
**Thank you so much for posting this tutorial :-D**
No the card is APOLLO, and I know that in 8M mode the PCMCIA is down. In 4M is ready, I have to try with 4M. But now I'm catching with amiga 600 with duble KICK START.. for to install WHDLOAD. I LOVE AMIGA
I follow steb by step your inidcations, but when I put inside the CF into my REAL AMIGA 1200 (8M) don't START... the screen is BLACK
Awesome tutorial, many thanks it was really helpful.
Thanks for the tutorial. Worked a treat :)
Thanks for your detailed explanation :)
Thanks for the tutorial... I just had 1 problem after Classic workbench install... iGame won't add any new games I've installed since the first batch... I do Scan Repositories in igame and it only finds the original set I installed. I installed lots more whdload games since and they aren't found. If I go to drawers > add game first it, has an error message about not finding a menu file, and gives an option to create one, which I do, then it continues. But it doesn't take very long for it to complete and tell me to click button to exit. After that I do scan repos in iGame again and no more games are found.
Hi! Try to delete the Gameslist file in the Igame drawer and see if they will scan then :)
fitzsteve It works now, I was extracting the games to the wrong folder :)
Outstanding tutorial. Thank you so much.
thanks for the tutorial
I have an amiga 600 hd original
what can I do with it (as well as throw it in the trash)?
what are the minimum technical characteristics must have it to load WHDLoad?
thanks for your precious help :)
Hi, Yes indeed if you have an ACA card you can use Maprom to load in the 3.1Rom. If you don't want to risk messing up your HDD I can set one up for you :)
Just awesome job! Thank you very mouch! How difficult is installing of Classic Workbench 3.9 compared to the procedure in this tutoril?
great vid steve - very helpful and easy to follow! just a quick question did you have any issues with the 1232 card re timing issues? I've just got my CF card preloaded with s/w and games and am thinking of getting the same card you have
im trying this with a 8gb card. the steps are the same except before you partition the drive you need to load a shell program up. type in loadmodule.scsi device and reboot. it shows up the 8gb drive then in emulation and you can format.
however when i run classicwb.hdf if boots to the desktop of classicwb not an install screen like what shows here.
if i say run real install.adf of classicwb with my cf mounted it says cannot find system.zip in dh0.
if i make the files into system.zip on dh0 and then do it it unpacks the zip and then stops half way and says dh0 is write protected! ive followed steps exactly too. read/write selected. etc :( totally stumped!
same for Amiga600? where i find previews pics for games?
IIRC there are two versions of Compact Flash Device on Aminet, you could try the other one :)
I don't know what the Scalos issue is though, there is a support forum for Classic Workbench on the English Amiga Board.
bit of information I found out after headaches it seems Kingston compact flash cause serious issues with workbench and the amiga , they wont format properly in my experience and I have seen HDtoolbox really mess up with them , I switched to temp using a old 4GB SDHC card & CF adaptor and that's fine with both HDtoolbox and Workbench no issue's in both quick format and full format modes both of which failed spectacularly with the Kingston CF card with this is not a vaild dos disk error's.
Quick question if I may? What is the reason for not simply mounting the CF card in WnUAE and then installing ClassicWB directly to the CF card? Is there a reason for installing to a virtual HD then copying the files to the CF?
i gave up on cf cards, good for a games only Amiga but no good for productivity, i bought a 6gb 2.5 hard drive, altered its mbr to less than 4 gig and that works better.. cf cards imho are not as good as a genuine hard disk, however brilliant if u just want a whdload gaming amiga :-)
Trying to follow this tutorial using a 4GB SD card instead of CF Card, everything has gone smoothly until i need to add my prepared SD card as a Hard drive in Winuae, I cannot see the drive in the pop down menu, looking for something that dispalys the name begining with "RDB" but nothing in the list except all my main PC and DVD drives.
I have finally managed to find the RDB named drive from the list, but i cannot select the read/write tab its greyed out
Never mind finally got the write tab sorted, I accidentally pushed the lock tab on the SD card. But still cannot see the 3 partitions I prepared on my Amiga in Winuae , will start all over again.
I am using windows 10 and Winuae 3100. What versions are you using in your video.
Great video. However for me the whole process gets stuck in the very beggining when Classic WB installation asks for a "valid workbench disk". I'm using freshly purchased Amiga Forever wb3.1 adfs but it still says : "not a valid workbench disk". I would appreciate any kind of help.
Hi there, I believe the issue here is that the Amiga Forever Disks are encrypted so you'll need to find a set of workbench ADFs via another method. Ps, thank you for watching
@@fitzsteve thanks for the prompt reply!
Awww that floppy sound. :)
I am getting a "Software Failure - Program failed (error #80000003). Wait for disk activity to finish." Error after quitting for some WHDload games. I will also appear if I do a soft reset. I can only resolve it by powering the machine all. A1200 with Kingston 8GB CF card in partitions of ~200MB, 3700MB and 3600MB. Kick 3.0, WB 3.1, Blizzard 1230 with 32MB.
Have a problem here, when I read configuration in HdToolbox and want to proceed It wants to install it on the Install disk itself . The CF-card is completely clean and it shows up fine when I read the configuration ?!?
Hi! Copy HDToolBox to Ram Disk and try again :D
fitzsteve Thank you Steve, everything is installed and working fine now :-)
Great tutorial! However, I am setting up A4000T ready with bigass 120GB HD to install OS3.1 (and OS3.9 later) but I can't remember right settings on HD tool box in order to make as big boot partition as possible. Is the maximum 2GB for boot partition? What are the right settings on HD tool box? I plan to install Real AmiKit on it later and full installation heaps atleast 500MB from boot partition. Can someone help?
Hi Steve i have a quick question. its about the kickstarts.lha bit.
i'm a little hazy on that bit. i have bought "Amiga Forever" IMO is the best emulator, as you know it comes with workbench and roms. do i just take copies of the roms in the shared documents folder and rename them and place them into the devs folder??? and i right in thinking that?
***** Hi, thanks for your comment. I've not used Amiga Forever so I'm not sure, I assume that they will need to be re-named and you will need the RTB files, there should be some documentation with WHDLoad that explains what you need and where it goes.
I serarch for a Amiga HDD Image with a full Systeminstall and WHD Load with all the Stuff for emulation on Retropi. Can a Image of this CF Card used for that?
Yes once you setup the Amiga emulation on the Pi you should be able to use a HD image, I'm sure there are tutorials for setting up Amiga emulation on the Pi
Man thank you so much for this video.
Vladica Kojic My pleasure, I hope it helped :)
Hi fitzsteve,
thx for the guide.
But i have a problem, after i start the Emulation.
ERROR: can´t load keymap
KEYMAPS: gb
I can´t install the workbench, because the WIN UAE starts in another mode than yours.
After LOAD HARDFILE - System. hdf - Start
Can you help me ?
I get it. Was an destroyed Version of System.hdf
thank you
Hi I already did a guide for large disk support, you can find it on my channel, same applies to CF cards. My videos are a bit old now so some things might have changed.
Thanks for the guide, i have one problen when executing games, i get errors like: Cant alocate expmem o shadowmem, i´m on a basic a1200.
You need more RAM :)
+fitzsteve I can´t execute old a500 games? Is there any list of working games?
+fitzsteve There is a solution, boot with left mouse button, for all people in the same situation.
Is there any chance to get up the system without the Amiga floppy drive because it's dead? Help and Thanks
Steve, I just have one question.
Can you elaborate on copying kickstarts.lha , which contains things like kick33180.a500 and kick33180.a500.rtb ? I own Amiga Forever, so can I just copy various .rom files from \Amiga Files\Shared
om to devs\kickstarts folder ? What do I rename ? I don't see any .rtb files
Thanks, PEter
Hi! Yes AmigaForever Roms should be fine, see here for details on RTB files: www.whdload.de/docs/en/need.html
hi fitzsteve
could you make a video explaining how to partition a 16gb card ?
i can following everything but you fly through that point i get lost and all other tuts are using older utilities :/
im looking to use classic workbench lite
if you could help i would be very grateful
Quick query and hopefully you can help. I tried installing WB 3.1 on my 1200, With the HDD and with a 4GB flash card using WinUAE, both failed, I've been through hell and back trying to get it to work but no dice. Now I can get to the workbench grey/blue screen with Ramdisk etc showing but when I put a game in the icon will be "DF0:????" My locale, fonts discs show up normally, but system and install disks shows DF0:???? it worked fine before with games as I was playing Roadkill, Top Gear 2 etc.. What on earth have I done wrong and how do I fix this? Dying floppy drive, HDD etc? | have a gotek emulator which works thankfully..
thanks for this, where can I get that complete WHDload games pack from ?
Cannot find a complete games pack option on the website mentioned.
WHDload is now free, no registration required.
Hi I'm not sure these days, I got all mine back about 5 years and made a few updates via various sources over the years (none for 2+ years) sorry.
OK, thanks.
Hi Steve. I have a weird issue about whdload games. Some games (shadow of the beast 3 for instance) freezes in real A1200 when i press the "F" buttons (F1, F2 for changing items). But in WinUAE, the same setup works fine with no freezes. I use A1200 Escom edition with blizzard 1230. As I understand it is either a matter of amiga hardware or it has to do with some codelines in whdload. I read somewhere about NOCACHE and NOMMU code lines that are put in the icon of the game. Do you have any idea about that? Thank you
hi Steve, I have the card set up and running, however, the games partition is full on my 4gb flash card. how can I add more games to the work partition as its empty? cheers
Can i just install workbench from my floppydiscs and then run winua to add games ?
Hey there im having trouble finding the settings tab at the top of the screen to tell the system where my games are. There just isnt an option at all?
Is it me or does "Assign" seem to be missing from the LITE version? I've had to install that as only currently have 4mb fastram (looking to install 8mb) so quite a few games won't work or I get flashing/corrupted graphics.
+treguard1982 Since posting this comment, I noticed that I did actually have 8mb fastram; it was just that the jumper was set to 4 lol.
Excellent tutorial!
Way to go!
Great tutorial. I have, however, a problem setting up three partitions on a 4GB flashcard. The partitioning goes fine, I have set MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00 (confirmed with enter), named the partitions DH0 (~200MB), DH1, and DH2 (~1800MB each). When I reboot, only DH0 and DH1 show up. This happens with 2 different 4GB CF cards, on a real A1200 and in WinUAE. Any thoughts why this happens?
Hi, that's a strange one, this normally only happens if you have a device over 4gb. Are you a member of English Amiga Board? There are some very knowledgeable members who might be able to help.
fitzsteve Thanks for your reply. I will try the Amiga Board, thank you for the tip!
Till Bockemühl Hi did you find a solution to this issue, as I'm having the same problem. I only see two drives after partitioning three. Andy
Andy Lovelace Hey Andy. I got it to work actually. Please go to eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=69128 and use the programme "killpart". You can find a link in one of the posts there. Don't know what it does, but this did the trick for me. Hope it works for you, too. Till
What happens if you setup and install this on a 2mb base system?
Hi Fitzsteve, 1st off great tutorial. I want to ask 1 question before I start getting into my Amiga to do all this which is getting me so excited. At 3:56 I noticed you chose the HDMI1 option on your TV/Monitor to view your Amiga screen, can I buy a lead that is converted to HDMI for the Amiga and if so please could you point me in the right direction.
Many thanks up front and keep these videos coming, I will be watching and learning. SUBBED.
gary72carol61 I have the same question, an idea were it buy a hdmi that will work with amiga
I found this on Ebay just now, get 1 of these but make sure it is suitable for your country, ie PAL/NTSC.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-Amiga-A500-A600-A1200-2mtr-GOLD-PLATED-RGB-Scart-TV-Cable-Video-Lead-/250786119867
I am UK so I will need PAL, maybe they work on all countries but you should contact them and ask.
If your TV does not have SCART on the back then buy one of these.
www.amazon.co.uk/SCART-HDMI-converter-convert-connect-x/dp/B0092IAA3I
I already have one of these converters as I used it with my Playstation 1, PS1 scart to converter and then HDMI out from converter to HD PVR2 and I was able to record in HD, worked wonders for the picture quality as well.
Let me know if you solved it.
I left a reply incase you never got a notification.
Hi, this is the product you need for HDMI on your A1200, it's quite expensive but gives you digital image quality. The Scart Lead linked is a nice solution and cost effective as long as your TV supports RGB-Scart then it's a good option. All the best. amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1148
Yes, thank you
Hi. Thanks for this tutorial. I own a A1200 with a 4gb IDE harddisk. Can I do the same thing with the hd as with a cf? If so, how do I connect my IDE hd to my pc?
You can buy a small converter or caddy to use your HDD with USB :) It will be exactly the same as CF in terms of setting up.
fitzsteve Just bought a USB to IDE adapter. Works great with Winue. Have to reinstall my A1200 because the max transfer was set to 0xffffff
Excellent tutorial, however when i click on an lha file in Dopus I dont get access to the contents of the archive, I just get a text file showing the contents??
Thanks! You can only browse inside archives via DOpus on CWB Full and above, if you are using lower versions you need to extract the contents to view/manage them. I usually extract to Ram Disk and work with my files there, of course they will be gone after re-boot so if you want to keep them you need to save a copy somewhere.
fitzsteve
Cheers, I knew I would have been missing someting
8-)
fitzsteve When at the adding games stage in 68k ClassicWB on an 8GB CF (all partitions
Hi, the tutorial doesn't cover support for drives over 4gb so I guess this is your issue, you need a file system that supports larger partitions and/or a patched scsi.device
I got as far as 4:43. I suspect my motherboard is broken since it's not detecting a harddrive even when I tried with an actual Amiga harddrive.
Hi there im using the latest os3.9 (v2.8 bloodywych) latest whdload and iGame and all my games have artwork in the folders, but no actually showing in i game. would you happen to know how to get these to show when i click on games in my igame list, it just shows the default igame picture, and great setup guide too btw ! :-)
Hi mate great tutorial however when i get to the point extracting game files to the cf i get an error message that says error 0003 0007 task 00037df8 when i click the mouse i get the option to suspend or reboot any help or advice would be great, I am using classicwb 68k to install to an amiga 600
Great video. I just want to know at the start why you partitioned the CF card on the real Amiga before going over to the PC. Isn't it possible to do this from workbench 3.1 within the WinUAE emulator?
licence2kill Hi yes it's possible to do this in WinUAE, I chose real Amiga for my tutorial as some people have issues doing it on WinUAE
hi..i registered yesterday on whdload for the keyfile.
can you write me please where i can find the "all whdload games package" downloadable just in 1 step?
i don't want download #-z packages fromt the whd site.... too much time :-)
+Domenico D'Alessandro sorry I don't think there is any one big download, unless you search for torrents.
Ok :-) many thanks ... your video is really helpful !! Most appreciated by all of us ;)
Hey Steve,could I use ClassicWB on Amiga with BVision ?
I am getting some weird picture when boot CF on 1200T ...
Huan CA Hi, yes you can but avoid the versions with Scalos (Full/ADV/ADV SP) I recommend the OS3.9 version for your setup. Good luck with your project.
fitzsteve Ok,thank you.
Ah right, will this process work with an A600 as long as you use the appropriate workbench version?
+nufcdazzla Yes it is exactly the same principle but the HDToolbox of 2.x is laid out differently so the steps will differ a bit. You can however get 3.1 Rom for your A600 and use Workbench 3.1 version (Classic Workbench 68k) Good luck. Just a side note, the A600's 1mb doesn't go very far!
the maxtranfert 0X1FE000 DOESN'T CHANGE
is 16 gb aux card enough for games, will this tutorial for on A500+ machine aswell?
Hi!
Yeah 16gb is massive for an Amiga, the whole WHDLoad Games pack is about 5.5gb, take out the AGA/CD32 Games that you wont use on your ECS Amiga and it's nearer 4.5gb. Add CD games, Demos, other stuff and you will still struggle to even fill 10gb :)
I have 2x 8gb CF on my A1200 and have about 4gb free and I have a massive collection of MOD Music on there too as well as MacOS (ShaeShifter and big HDF's)
Hello thanks for the tutorial. I am having a problem on my Amiga 1200 NTSC . everything goes fine until I put the drive back in the a1200 when it boots it flashes and scrolls, likes its in the wrong region. I have checked everything I can find that says NTSC. Do you know of something obvious I might be missing.
I bought aca500 with bootble 4gb cf, I have amiga 500 but I dont have workbench 3.1, I can use aca500 like a cfreader because this have 2 cf reader? And I can install Classic workbench with Winue on CF reader without 3.1 floppy or is possible to install Worbench 3.1 on cf via Winaue and not via original floppy? Thanks
Hi! Yes you can do the install on WINUAE using ADF's, you might need to use a Windows tool called Diskpart to clear off any windows boot record on your CF before WinUAE will let you use it, be careful as you can accidentally wipe the wrong drive!
But i need to install workbench on cf go in Boot slot or in normal slot?
Davide Ricciardiello Ideally you should install Workbench on the CF card you will use in the boot slot however it works on both, the AUX slot is better used with a PC formatted CF (FAT32) for transferring files.
Ok, Thank You!!!
fitzsteve I have received today the aca500 with 4gb cf boot from amiga kit, now I try to install but the os ask me a Workbench 3.1 floppy, I have buy on ebay and i'm waiting but I would like to know if the os I found on thr boot cf send me amigakit is ClassicWB? This have the WHDLoad? Thanks again
hi just watch this could you do a setup for A2000HD with a Tf536 i have a 80gb 2.5 ide hard drive i can use ? and your fitzstevesamigaworld page si gone?
Hi, thanks for your message. I stopped maintaining the website a long time ago and I'm no longer doing these setups, although I still use Amigas as a hobby. I left these guides up and removed ads to preserve the content only. All the best and good luck with your project.
@@fitzsteve thank you for reply, your guides are very informative, I noticed you in une video that you have a ton of resources that you quickly access when doing your build I don’t know about the possibility of getting access to the resources so I can complete mine if that was all doable happy to talk via pm/Dm
hi fitzsteve sent me files 3: Games, Kickstars MyWHDLoadKey?
Can you tell me please how do i assign my DH1 and DH2 Harddrive to run Games with whdload and the game manager? Thank you