Wings: HD and ram
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Help me earn my Wings! I've got an Amiga 500 with 1 meg, plus a hard drive
with 2 more megs ram expansion. I installed Wings to the HD, and when I
tried running it I get the "Not enough chip ram" message. Tried control-d
to get out of startup sooner, disconnected external drive…no help. Then I
installed the floppies to my ram: and everything works fine. Is there a way
I can install from HD to ram? I tried copying it to ram but it gurus. Also
tried assigning reel 2 but that didn't help either.
Thanks for any help,
Bruce
Bruce,
I'm using WINGS from my 2nd HD partition with no problems, I have
an A1000 with the 512K agnus. What I do is bring the system up completely,
(WB and a shell) Kill the shell and open the wings drawer, closing any
other drawers that are opened on the way. Click on the WINGS icon and away
it goes. It's tight on memory, but for me at least, it works fine this
way. Try closing your CLI and just using WB. Good Luck, -Nick
Nick,
That did the trick! I closed all the windows, including the one
where Wings! came from, and away I went. I'd still like to play the game
from RAM without installing it from the disks, but this will be fine for
now. Actually, I'd probably forget to copy my pilot file from RAM to the
disk and that would certainly quell my enjoyment.
Thanks,
Bruce
Bruce,
(Wow, we're conversing on two networks about the same subject 🙂
What I ended up doing was writing a little script file. The pseudo-code is
basically:
MAKE WINGS DIR IN RAM AND COPY THE HD DIRECTORY TO IT
WINGS
COPY RAM:WINGS/REEL2/PILOT.DAT DH0:WINGS/REEL2
That way I didn't have to remember to copy the pilot file back. And the
program certainly copies from HD faster than from floppies…
..DennyA
Denny,
But you answered me only over here! And it is cheaper over
there… but that still doesn't stop us, does it?
Bruce
Denny,
How does the Wings! script know to copy the file back from RAM after
you have quit the program? Do you just have an icon for it and click it
yourself after exiting?
Bruce
Make sure you're executing the FastMemFirst command in your
startupsequence. I'm running it from a 2000 with 512K chip and 2.5mb Fast
RAM. The hard drive utility installed it without difficulty on my 2000. I
also run the program from Workbench with all windows closed sans the WINGS
window.
Good luck.