even more Amiga questions

by **adidas** on Sat Jun 30, 2001 7:03 pm

I know that if you've looked for Amiga games before, you've run across those damn LHA files. I found out that these are files that allow games which were originally designed to run from floppy disks to an Amiga hard drive.

You're supposed to be able to simulate an Amiga hard drive from what I've read. So, if you download WHDload you should be able to emulate the Amiga hard drive and run WHDload from an emulator, which installs the LHA files.

Is this right? Maybe from there you can somehow convert the file to ADF format?

by **were** on Mon Jul 02, 2001 7:37 am

just get the dos lha(or lha255 or something) and let it conincide with winzip.

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 2:21 pm

Dont Fellow and UAE already feature virtual HDs? I thought you could do all that stuff from the Amiga shell.

by **adidas** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 6:13 pm

The problem isn't extracting them were, it's that the files inside LHA files are always different from the files that the emulators run.

Both emus feature hard drive emulation, but I know so very little about the Amiga, I'm not sure how to set the games up.

I picked up Amiga again because I decided to try UAE, I figured maybe it would run better than Fellow. It does, but I still can't get 60% of the games to work, and playing with all the settings that Amiga has is a royal pain. I give up again. You'll hear no more Amiga questions from me.

If you do figure out how to use those LHA files SH, you can get Sneech in that format.

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 7:21 pm

I thought that the vast majority of amiga games ran off floppies anyway.

There arnt too many settings to play with in Fellow, which I must say I prefer to UAE because of UAE's shit sound performance.

Just set the mouse to the port 1 and the keyboard to port 2, enable sound and load ya game. THey seem ok to me so far as long as they are in the floppy format.

by **Damian** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 10:21 pm

I use a joypad myself, keyboard sucks~~~~ [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

by **were** on Wed Jul 04, 2001 7:34 am

winuae is workable, its just damn stubborn cause there are so many settings to fool around with.not many games require a HD, in case your wondering, why amigaCD nevered caught on except in europe.

fellow is ok and you need a joystick since i found the keyboard being finnikey?

by **Silverhaze** on Wed Jul 04, 2001 1:33 pm

I've been playing on a keyboard since my first BBC Micro. I am a keyboard GOD!!

Unless we're talking SF2 of course. That just gets confusing. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

by **adidas** on Wed Jul 04, 2001 10:22 pm

I used to play Samurai Showdown 2 and 3 at work with the keyboard on NRX

Man... what a setup that was, no sound card, 28.8 modem, 32MB ram

by **were** on Thu Jul 05, 2001 7:27 am

man that's a scary thought.imagin eplayin sh3 on 32megs of ram.Imagine playing quak3 without a 3d card.....

..#%$#%#%...

by **Silverhaze** on Thu Jul 05, 2001 1:17 pm

I'd rather not if its all the same thanks [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

I used to watch my lil bro play Half-Life on software rendering mode cos his Voodoo3000 used to crash the computer once it ran out of ram. Man was that ever painful, I could only ever take it for about 15 minutes at a time.

by **RabidYak** on Fri Jul 06, 2001 12:30 am

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by were:
<STRONG>Imagine playing quake3 without a 3d card.....
</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dont have to imagine, ive done it.

by **jurucyber** on Fri Jul 06, 2001 12:43 am

Imagine playing Sam Spirts 3 .
PERIOD.

ughhh,what a horrble prospect...

I can ONLY play HF and Q3 without a 3d card.
Which isnt very often.

by **were** on Fri Jul 06, 2001 7:12 am

you did???..shit on a stick...mine didn't work at all, not even alice...

________
thought it will be a good summer too..

by **Silverhaze** on Fri Jul 06, 2001 1:40 pm

Speaking of 3D cards. THe first one I ever had was a Diamond Monster 3D using the 3DFX chipset. I couldnt believe it when I saw the difference on Tomb Raider!!! Then I started playing that first Quake demo that came out and I shat myself at the zombie pit bit. I've always had a thing about zombies for some reason and that noise they used to make sent shivers down my spine. LOL [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

by **Silverhaze** on Fri Jul 06, 2001 8:41 pm

Well I was young and naive, it was my first experience. I can hardly be blamed. Dont persecute me for my lack of knowledge!!

[img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

by **adidas** on Sat Jul 07, 2001 5:53 am

Diamond makes the shittiest hardware you could ever buy.

I've come to this conclusion after:

a. My friend had a Diamond Monster 3D based on the voodoo2 chipset. The graphics were ok for a little while, and then after that everything had a green tint.

b. I had a Rio MP3 player, with 32 MB of memory. One day I went to add some MP3's into it, and the damn thing only recognized that it had 16 MB of memory

c. I had a Diamond Monster Sound 2, and the sound was shit, it used to skip all the time, in a 700 mhz cpu when that was the fastest cpu there was. I put in my Sound Blaster and it has worked perfectly ever since.

In conclusion, never buy Diamond products!