Amiga Forever / WINUAE

[RichL]

My Amiga 1200 is playing up and refusing to load floppies anymore so anyway, I got hold of Cloantos Amiga Forever which comes with the legit set of Amiga Kickstart ROMs... Let me get to the point.

Back in the day, I used to play Championship Manager 93 which was installed on my 1200's hard drive for faster data crunching when it updated at the end of the season.

Is there anyway, using WINUAE that I can set aside a little section of my laptops hard drive so that WINUAE can emulate the Amigas hard drive so I could install my old Champ Man 93 and run it that way like I used to do in the past?

Where do I start in WINUAE??

Thank you for any help.

[necronom]

Yep.

In WinUAE you can either use your PC's hard drive and just load and save to that (just point it to a directory and there's your drive), or you can create a hard drive file that is a disk image. You can add drives in the "Hard Drives" section of WinUAE.

I've used both methods and it works great.

[RichL]

That is great thank you, my stumbling block seems to be that the End of Season Data Disk that I have for CMAN93 does not seem to have the install to HD option which has stopped me in my tracks. It's a problem with the disk image I suspect.

[Antiriad2097]

If you just want the performance boost to reduce waiting time, wouldn't it just be easier to enable turbo disk mode (so it doesn't emulate normal floppy disk speed, its near instant) and kick UAE itself into turbo mode during the calculation if its not just the disk slowing things down?

One of the great benefits of emulation is that you don't have to experience all the delays waiting for things to load or calculate.

[RichL]

I didn't realise I could do that...

Where would it save my game though?

[Antiriad2097]

I assume it'll save it to the disk image, I really don't know that game. Maybe you need to insert a blank disk image in a second floppy drive for the save? However you do it, I'm sure its workable.

[RichL]

Okay, I will give that a go.

[TMR]

i very vaguely remember that series creating save disks, if that's so it'd be a case of mounting a new, empty image and letting it build a save disk to that, then mounting it each time you want to load or save.

[necronom]

If the game lets you use more than one drive, you could then put the save disk in DF1, and keep the game in DF0, then there's no swapping. I don't know the game, so I don't know how many disks it's on or if you can use multiple drives. Some annoying games didn't work with DF1 (or DF2, etc).

[RichL]

It is on 3 disks.

I always used to use the HD installer on disk one on my 'real' Amiga.