Making Amiga emulation easier

[ManekiNeko]

Could someone take me through a step by step process of creating a hard drive file in WinUAE, then transferring disk images to it? I'd be most grateful for the advice. I don't like having to constantly swap disk images to play games like Fightin' Spirit.

JR

[zektor]

You can always just enable the 4 virtual floppy drives and mount each disk to a drive. Have you tried this?

[ManekiNeko]

That doesn't always work. Sometimes you'll be forced to swap discs regardless of the fact that those discs are already in the secondary drives.

JR

[zektor]

Yeah, sometimes that is just how the games were written. Even with my real Amiga 500 and extra floppy some games would not utilize the extra drive. I think King Of Chicago was like this if I am remembering correctly...and those Cinemaware games were a bitch with disk swapping. You would end up wearing out the floppies before you even finished the game! Thank god for images!

BTW: If the images were not wriiten with hard drive installation capability (which the ones you are speaking of probably aren't) it will do you no good setting up a virtual HD within the emulation. I will be posting a little HD setup tutorial within WinUAE sometime soon anyway btw...just so you folks can check it out.