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A2000 won't run certain games like Cannon Fodder (RAM?)

falter

falter

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My A2000 has 1MB of RAM, I think, but games like Cannon Fodder don't work. They do work on my A500 with 1MB. I'm so out of touch with Amiga hardware... is it simply a matter of upgrading RAM? I note when I boot into workbench it shows around 800k free.
 
1 MB RAM is not 1 MB RAM.

Your A2000 most likely has 1 MB Chip memory (unless it's a very early one made in Germany), but Cannon Fodder wants 512kb Chip + 512 kb Slow memory, which is what your A500 has.
 
Timo W. said:
1 MB RAM is not 1 MB RAM.

Your A2000 most likely has 1 MB Chip memory (unless it's a very early one made in Germany), but Cannon Fodder wants 512kb Chip + 512 kb Slow memory, which is what your A500 has.
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Thank you. Ah yes. I dimly remember this.. but not well. I think the slow memory can be increased on the 2000? I'm assuming Cannon Fodder doesn't care if it has more chip memory than it needs.
 
It's been ages but I think there are jumpers on A2000 boards for configuring memory as chip or fast depending on the revision of the board and the chips used.
 
I opened it up for the first time in years.. it's a Rev 6.2 board, which I think is the last version and is the ECS chipset? I'm looking at jumper configs but it's not clear to me what I need to do.

Going to have to read up on this. This machine has an AdSCSI and A2000 PC emulator board in it.
 
Got the A2052 today.. read up that it was auto-configuring, so I plugged it in.. voila.. now i have 3MB of RAM. That was easy! Now a bunch more programs run.. however Cannon Fodder still refuses to. Works fine on my A600 but not the 2000 for some reason. Guess I have to dig into this a bit more.
 
falter said:
Got the A2052 today.. read up that it was auto-configuring, so I plugged it in.. voila.. now i have 3MB of RAM. That was easy! Now a bunch more programs run.. however Cannon Fodder still refuses to. Works fine on my A600 but not the 2000 for some reason. Guess I have to dig into this a bit more.
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Great news on having more Fast RAM! But wait a minute... above you said you had an A500. Now you say you have an A600?

By the way, what Amiga OS/Workbench are you running?

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class
 
I have several Amigas. A couple of 500s, a 600HD, a 1000, and a 2000.

The 2000 is the one I'm trying to use most.. it was the machine I wanted badly as a kid. I use the 600HD to transfer, write and test ADF disk images via Amiga Explorer. For some reason the 2000 will not work with AE, I think something isn't working with the serial port. The Cannon Fodder disks I made work on the A600HD and my 500.. just not the 2000.

The 2000 is running Workbench 1.3 I think, the 600HD is running 3. Have to check that.
 
falter said:
The Cannon Fodder disks I made work on the A600HD and my 500.. just not the 2000.
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O.K.. maybe it's not a memory problem. Since you are using floppy disks, maybe the disk drive on your A2000 is bad or out-of-alignment with the disks that are usable on the A600 and A500.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class
 
RobertB said:
O.K.. maybe it's not a memory problem. Since you are using floppy disks, maybe the disk drive on your A2000 is bad or out-of-alignment with the disks that are usable on the A600 and A500.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
April 13-14 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2024 - http://www.portcommodore.com/class
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Talking about disk drives gave me a theory...

Falter, what kickstart version does your amiga 2000 have? If its 2.04 or above, are you booting from df0? If you have two disk drives in the system, or if you have an incorrect cable it might be using your disk drive as df1 which some games dont like.

If your version of ks is <2.04 then you can only boot of df0, which will kill this theory.
 
Kickstart 1.3. And I do have two drives in the system... been wondering about that. One of the drives is a Chinon that was in an external case (set up for Amiga use). I dimly recall setting jumpers and such as I moved it over. It is the drive on the left, the drive on the right is the original. There is also a 5.25" drive which is used with the PC emulator card.

I have noticed when booting Cannon Fodder that it tries to access that drive for some reason. I don't know if this is Cannon Fodder or just the underlying Workbench OS on the disk. I don't know if that has any bearing?
 
I just booted off the hard drive and tested both drives and they seem to work fine, and well together. The right one is DF0, the left appears to be DF1.

Kinda wish Amiga hadn't been so floppy-oriented with games and stuff. I dimly recall a way to load them to hard drive but it's been so long..
 
Just to make SURE that it wasn't an issue with Amiga 2000s in general, I pulled down Cannon Fodder for WHDLoad last night and tested it for a few hours. It works like a treat on *my* 2000. ;)
 
Okay I'll figure out WHDload today. I was trying to understand how the game packages worked but was a little confused.
 
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