Aga games for standard A1200

[Harrison]

BTW, I really didn't know there was a hard disk for the Amiga.
How big was it?

You didn't realise Amiga's could use harddrives? All models from the A500 up have been able to. The A500 with side bus expansions such as those from GVP, all big box Amigas with SCSI zorro cards, and IDE in the A600, 1200 and 4000.

Any drives can be made to work, but as Tiago mentioned the Workbench file system limits you to a maximum of 4GB total HD size. But you can go beyond that by either using a different third party file system, or a newer version of Workbench such as 3.9 which has the support built in.

[Sharingan]

And here I thought my 120MB A1200 harddrive was gigantic

[v85rawdeal]

I used to think the same about my 40MB Vortex drive for my A500...

Ah well, ya live and learn (although I tend to forget the latter part)

[Harrison]

Try as I might I never did manage to fill my A1200 and A4000 HDs completely. And it wasn't through lack of trying. I installed every game that supports HD installation, every PD, Shareware and any other games I could find, and every application and utility I could get my hands on, but still it wasn't full!

How I wish it was the same today.

[Ghost]

Sorry guys, I got most of my knowledge from game magazines and they always complained about the disk switching.
Especially Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis could drive them up the wall with this so I automatically assumed there weren't any hard disks until years later.

So could you put games like adventures on the Hard Disk?

[Harrison]

Yes, many multi disk games came with Harddrive installers on one of the disks for installing the game. Most Adventure games came with installers. Beneath a Steel Sky, Monkey Island 2 and many of the other games with a lot of disks were so much nicer running from harddrive.

And some games without installers, but with standard Amiga DOS formatted disks could be installed manually if you knew what you were doing.

For all other games their is WHDLoad which allows you to install nearly every game released for the Amiga onto a harddrive using it's own special WHDLoad installers which copies the contents of the original game disks (even non Amiga DOS disks) into a file on the HD and adds it's own game launching icon to run the games.

Also all applications and utilities can be installed to HD too.

[Ghost]

Hello Harrison,

Hmm, where Hard Disks perhaps expensive at the time these games came out, explaining why disk swapping was still a normal activity during games?

It sounds to me that Amigas at the time could compete with PCs regarding storage space.