They are stored in +-75 boxes, an estimated 10’000+ disks! For all these years they sat on a member’s attic waiting to see the daylight again and here they are.
They gathered this software +25 years ago swapping with other groups, by downloading, etc.
This method does not work for all games, but its worth a play with.In the beginning of 2018 Simon Vergauwen acquired the complete Amiga Floppy Disk collection of BS1 ( Bamiga Sector One). Running from HDD and no more disc prompts. I found references to DF0: – so I changed these to F13: instead, set up an assign to the Floor 13 files and fired up the executable. So I copied the contents from both discs to my HDD, fired up Disk Peek and Update, and used its hex/ASCII viewer to examine the main game executable. I was happy to use it off dual floppy drives, but it would not use any other drive. This was a 2 disk game, and only used DF0. I did this with a few games back in the day, and one that sticks to my mind was Floor 13. Then you get the ones that are AmigaDOS disks, but when copied to HDD, they ask for the disk to be inserted upon running the game.Įither need to look on Aminet for an HDD installer for the game, or be brave and poke around in the main game executable for references to DF0. Others come with installers making the process even easier. Games such as the early Sierra stuff (Kings Quest, Police Quest) are literally just a copy and run process. Now the thing is, a lot of the games I’ve added so far, don’t officially have HDD installers, but since they are just AmigaDOS disks, I can copy the contents into a folder and they run happily.
I mentioned this on an Amiga Facebook group, and had a bit of interest from people who want to game from HDD, but don’t/can’t use WHDLoad for whatever reason.
So I decided to put together a HDF file that contains a basic Workbench installation with Directory Opus and a few other applications, and a number of HDD installable Amiga games. I’ve used a few different game orientated systems such as FS-UAE Arcade but its a bit overkill for my needs.
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