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Gizmo224
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 Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: My A1200 finally arrived... |
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What was inside as far as upgrades were unknown to me until now. It included an 80MB HDD, as well as a GVP RAM card with 4MB RAM. There's another slot on it to bring it up to 8MB, but from what I hear GVP cards don't take standard 72-Pin SIMMS, so that will have to wait. Another bit of interesting information is that there was a program on the HDD that seemed to be for displaying news messages like those seen on local cable TV stations. Simple text messages and advertisements were displayed in a slide show while the program was running. Unfortunately, due to it taking up more than half of the HDD's space, I had to delete it 
Now the tedious process of putting games on Amiga disks has begun 
I don't have a null modem cable, so the process goes something like this:
ADF file -> file splitting program -> 2 720k Formatted floppies (this takes awhile to make in Windows XP...) -> file joining program -> ADF file -> ADF Writing program -> Amiga formatted floppy (again, takes awhile to make)
Repeat for each disk. Needless to say, this is going to take awhile 
I've been having difficulties running R-Type and Golden Axe. In Golden Axe, the screen rolls, and in R-Type, I get the title screen and then a message in red text with a red flashing box around it saying "Software Failure" and a bunch of random stuff after that. I've tried two different R-Type ADFs, one of which was from Factor 5's own website 
EDIT: Now I've tried R-Type II. It seems to work at first, but as soon as you get into the game it flickers a LOT (approaching ships appear to be many ships one behind enother, and the stars in the background are choppy. About 45 seconds into the game, it crashes |
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TNT
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:03 am Post subject: Re: My A1200 finally arrived... |
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| Gizmo224 wrote: | | ... as well as a GVP RAM card with 4MB RAM. |
GVP 1208? In that case you also have SCSI-II controller 
| Quote: | | Another bit of interesting information is that there was a program on the HDD that seemed to be for displaying news messages like those seen on local cable TV stations. |
Scala?
| Quote: | | ADF file -> file splitting program -> 2 720k Formatted floppies (this takes awhile to make in Windows XP...) -> file joining program -> ADF file -> ADF Writing program -> Amiga formatted floppy (again, takes awhile to make) |
Try to find Amiga compatible PCMCIA network card. I have five
| Quote: | | I've been having difficulties running R-Type and Golden Axe. |
Is there a way to disable extra RAM? Switch anywhere? |
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Gizmo224
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: Re: My A1200 finally arrived... |
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| Quote: | | GVP 1208? In that case you also have SCSI-II controller |
I checked out the model number, and found out that it's actually a GVP A1230 Turbo+! So I not only have a RAM expansion card, it's an accelerator card as well
I'm pretty sure that's the name. It asked for a "Scala key" when I tried running the program directly. I put a little yellow adapter (which I didn't know the purpose of until then...) into the joystick port and restarted. Then it started displaying the messages on the TV 
[quote]Try to find Amiga compatible PCMCIA network card. I have five [quote]
I have one, but it's a 3Com and from what I've heard, they don't fit well or have good compatability (with a couple of exceptions...) I could be wrong though 
| Quote: | | Is there a way to disable extra RAM? Switch anywhere? |
I didn't see any switches. There's a whole load of jumpers on the card, but I wouldn't want to mess with them without knowing what they do... |
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TNT
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: My A1200 finally arrived... |
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| Gizmo224 wrote: |
I checked out the model number, and found out that it's actually a GVP A1230 Turbo+! So I not only have a RAM expansion card, it's an accelerator card as well |
This install disk may be useful.
| Quote: | | Quote: | | Try to find Amiga compatible PCMCIA network card. |
I have one, but it's a 3Com and from what I've heard, they don't fit well or have good compatability (with a couple of exceptions...) |
I have several 3Com 3C589D based cards (Etherlink III), and they work just fine. Check 3c589.device, it might support your card.
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Gizmo224
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there any way I can get that install disk in .ADF format? I don't know how to deal with .DMS files... |
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tony.rc
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Gizmo224 wrote: | | I don't know how to deal with .DMS files |
.DMS archives are packed with DiskMaSher[/url], you can use DMS, xDMS or ADFOpus to extract or convert then to ADF.
Anyway I believe UAE also opens them up into a TEMP directory (so you could may be able to get the ADF there).
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TNT
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Does any of those unpack "protected" files? As the "protection" key is only 16 bits it's easy to find it with brute force - just unpack first track with every key until CRC matches. |
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Gizmo224
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:01 am Post subject: |
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| None of those links are working for me |
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TNT
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deizi
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| OMG! Finally got an a1200 feat broken a600 too! LINK |
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viaton
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| deizi wrote: | | OMG! Finally got an a1200 feat broken a600 too! LINK |
Hey deizi! That's great!! 
Onnittelut!!!! |
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Sanitarium
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| deizi wrote: | | OMG! Finally got an a1200 feat broken a600 too! LINK |
Wow, lots of stuff there, and even 1gb+ HD You can fit lots of demos and music in there Congrats!
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