Whdload games requiring 1.1MB chipram

[dougal]

This is really annoying.

Cannon Fodder & Wizkid, two of my favorite Amiga games refuse to run on my A2000 because it has 1Mb of chipram and Whdload requires 1.1MB for these two games to run.

There is no way i'm going to bother running the floppy disk versions of them. That would be stupid considering I have a hard drive, an 040 and 16MB fastram.

I tried a program called memdoubler which enabled me to have a fake 2MB, 4MB or 6MB chipram but Whdload is stupid and still only sees the 1MB chipram.

Is there any way to get these games to run ? Nobody on earth seems to have a mini mega chip or dkb megachip for sale.

[FOL]

This is really annoying.

Cannon Fodder & Wizkid, two of my favorite Amiga games refuse to run on my A2000 because it has 1Mb of chipram and Whdload requires 1.1MB for these two games to run.

There is no way i'm going to bother running the floppy disk versions of them. That would be stupid considering I have a hard drive, an 040 and 16MB fastram.

I tried a program called memdoubler which enabled me to have a fake 2MB, 4MB or 6MB chipram but Whdload is stupid and still only sees the 1MB chipram.

Is there any way to get these games to run ? Nobody on earth seems to have a mini mega chip or dkb megachip for sale.

hehe I was trying the same thing, it wont work, .
If WHDLoad says it wants 1MB - 2MB Chip, then it wants that and theres nothign you can do about it, unless you upgrade your chipram, .

[mjnurney]

upgrade to 2mb chip (Amigakit do one) i used the NTSC chip mod. then i can select NTSC or PAL

[dougal]

upgrade to 2mb chip (Amigakit do one) i used the NTSC chip mod. then i can select NTSC or PAL

I believe they no longer have them in stock

WHen you say select NTSC to PAL, do you mean by the early startup menu ?

When i upgraded my Agnus to the 1MB one it turned my A2000 into NTSC by default. I looked up a guide which advised me to cut a trace or set a jumper or both (i forgot) which forced it to default PAL again. The Agnus must have been an NTSC one for some reason.

Anyway with this mod i did will it keep the 'forced' PAL as default even with the 2MB adapter which i think amigakit no longer have ?

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hehe I was trying the same thing, it wont work, .
If WHDLoad says it wants 1MB - 2MB Chip, then it wants that and theres nothign you can do about it, unless you upgrade your chipram, .

Whdload is stupid because iirc Wizkid even runs on 512K Amigas from floppy and i know Cannon Fodder worked fine on my 1MB A500 plus back in the day.

[AmiNeo]

Trouble is WHDLoad needs memory for itself before running the games, and once you have workbench loaded you're already down to about 750kb. You dont usually have to boot workbench before loading a game either.

[mjnurney]

Whdload uses slave files for fast loading and that uses ram. try using AGlaunch or classic workbench and right click the mouse at boot and select - low mem boot (or did i make that up ) well something like that

Whdload isn't stupid its a very clever bit of programming.

[Uncle_Meat]

Is this no good for you?

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=24956

It's been lurking for sale for a few months now.

[dougal]

I don't think its any good for an A2000 and i'd have to solder something i believe.

My best bet is to find a 2MB chipram megchip thingy which seems impossible to find. I've trawled amibay, the other bay, the org and amigakit and nobody seems to have one.

I found some hack to solder chipram on to the motherboard but i think it has to be a rev6 and mine is 4.4.

@mike ... Yes i agree whdload is not stupid, i'm just bugged coz i can't play WizKid

Is this no good for you?

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=24956

It's been lurking for sale for a few months now.

[imaga_050]

Are you sure you don't want to stand in line for the one i'm selling i'm not trying to fool anyone it's just that the socket that the wires were attached to originally were a bit cracked in the plastic so i can't include them. But other than that the box says for A500/A2000.
Hey it's your choice but if you are thinking about soldering in chip ram on the motherboard how hard can it be to solder 2 wires to an DIL socket?

[dougal]

Are you sure you don't want to stand in line for the one i'm selling i'm not trying to fool anyone it's just that the socket that the wires were attached to originally were a bit cracked in the plastic so i can't include them. But other than that the box says for A500/A2000.
Hey it's your choice but if you are thinking about soldering in chip ram on the motherboard how hard can it be to solder 2 wires to an DIL socket?

Thanks. I'm going to PM you some questions (again ). Will declare my intentions on your thread.