#Whap! help wanted
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I am using a demo version of Whap! 19g and am trying to make a bootable
disk. I have followed the instructions in the manual EXACTLY and have
installed the disk. I have written a startup-sequence file consisting just
of "Whap!". Whenever I try to boot from the disk I get a system request –
"Please install volume WHAP in any drive". The disk is named WHAP and is
already in drive df0: After a few retries to no avail and clicking on
"Cancel" I get a Whap! error message – "You didn't assign WHAP: Please
read the manual and try again". What on earth is going on – the disk is
named WHAP, is in the drive and the assign command doesn't even appear in
the list of commands in the manual to be placed in the "c" directory ?????
Is it not possible to make an unregistered version bootable or am I doing
something wrong (as usual!)
– via Whap!
Bill, how about trying this instead:
Boot your computer as usual. Then put the WHAP disk in df0: and CD to it.
Then type Whap! and see if it doesn't work.
It is several years now since I used Whap! from a floppy. I did it for a
long time, but I cannot remember exactly what I did. I know that I did
not boot from the Whap disk, since I intensely dislike having to reboot my
machine.
I suspect that if you want to boot from that disk, you should make a copy
of your Workbench disk, remove all of the utilities, tools, fonts, etc,
and then copy the Whap! files to that disk. Then, on THAT disk, place in
your s:startup-sequence (last line) the line that says simply, Whap!. I
think that would work. You would also need a data disk, though. Whap!
and the necessary parts of the Workbench would not leave room for your
downloaded messages. I think I set my path to messages to say WHAPDATA,
and then formatted a disk by that name and kept it in the second drive
while using Whap!.
Betty, Thanks. You're right on the ball, as usual. I wanted a bootable disk
because with Whap! in df0: and Whapdata in df1: I was getting sick of
constantly having to swap the data disk with the Workbench disk. Anyway,
after I left the last message I tinkered about a bit and found that the
volume label on the Whap disk had a space at the end. That was enough to
disable it during the load and give me those error messages. Everything's
fine now and I've got no disk swapping to do at all during the session.
Good work, Bill. I *might* have thought about relabelling the disk but
I'm glad you found it.
Another thing I used to do when I was using floppies all the time was to
make a C: directory in Ram: and copy the most often-used commands to it.
Then, I made a path to that directory and the system would look there for
a command before asking that I put in the Workbench disk.
I like the idea of transferring the C directory to RAM. I use the KCS PC
Board (Spectra on your side of the pond) and this provides an extra 640k
RAM when the computer is booted in Amiga mode. It's actually using the PC
main memory as extra Amiga RAM. That would be an ideal place to put it as
it wouldn't affect Amiga memory at all Thanks
Hope it helps you as much as it did me.
My only guess is that somehow you managed to get either a leading of
trailing space in the volume name on the floppy