Amiga Photographs

**jag** · 10th October 2011, 16:09

Me not jealous much, of course (hem, hem). Yes, very impressed with the neatness of your work area. Do the dreaded Guru Meditations still occur? Used to have that with games not loading or crashing horribly halfway through some really tense bit. It would tell you to click the left mouse button, but sometimes you would get a repeat offender and just have to leave it for a while (a bit like having a row with the other half and having to go off for a walk to calm down for a short time.....)

;-)

**Harrison** · 10th October 2011, 19:49

Oh yes, still the old Guru messages. All great fun.

But, these days you can install pretty much all Amiga games onto an internal HDD using a clever program called WHDLoad, and that removed such issues most of the time, plus games load near instantly with no floppy disks needed.

**Puni/Void** · 11th October 2011, 06:09

Originally Posted by Harrison

Oh yes, still the old Guru messages. All great fun.

But, these days you can install pretty much all Amiga games onto an internal HDD using a clever program called WHDLoad, and that removed such issues most of the time, plus games load near instantly with no floppy disks needed.

WHDLoad rulez! Not having to rely on floppies for gaming on the Amiga is a blessing.

**Harrison** · 11th October 2011, 12:26

I think if there ever was an award for the greatest invention/development in the Amiga world in recent years it would have to go to WHDLoad. It breathed new life into Amigas for me. As you say no need for floppies, so an A1200 can become a standalone retro gaming system with everything to hand and ready to run. No media needed.

**jag** · 12th October 2011, 09:51

You've seriously got me started now. I've downloaded WINUAE - will let you know how I get on idc. Looks a bit scarey, so will probably need some help. Other than the psychiatric, of course, which I'm not disputing (but then a youth misspent messing around with Amigas, motorbikes and keyboards which required 'system exclusive dumps' - I kid you not - will do that to you.)

;-)