WHDLoad Install (Amiga)

whdload allows you to play games directly from a hard drive on the amiga, instead of loading from floppy disk installation can be quite confusing if you do not have the specific steps follow the below steps in order and you should have no problem when you need to get an lha file over to your amiga, you can either if small enough, use adp opus on pc to create a new adf file, and drop the lha run file into that adf then run that adf file from a gotek use a compact flash to pcmcia adapter and load it from the compact flash card use an sdbox v2 to run it from an sd card connect the hdd (compact flash, or sd card) to a pc and use winuae to mount it and copy files to it install whdload the first step is to install the actual whdload application this can be downloaded from the homepage of whdload de the file is called whdload usr lha copy the lha to the amiga and extract it with lha x whdload usr lha then open up the extracted folder and run the install file this will require both lha and installer applications if you do not already have them you will need to install them once the installer has run, you now have whdload installed into c directory kickstarts to allow for auto switching to the required kickstart to run the game, you must copy over all the kickstart roms to the devs directory, inside the kickstarts folder that should already be in devs but hidden (so use amiga right , shift and + to show all files) the kickstart files are in the amiga forever kit (you can purchase it here ) want to buy pre made and upgraded amiga computers? visit retrosix co uk once you install amiga forever on your pc, you need to copy the kickstarts from c \users\public\documents\amiga files\shared\dir\system\devs\kickstarts to your amigas devs directory install games the simplest way to install games is to download the packages that contain the installer and game disks from whdownload com https //whdownload com/ this way, all you have to do is search for your game, download the lha file, copy it over to the amiga, extract it with lha x thegame lha and then open the extracted folder and run the game download all games you can run a tool called whdloadtool that can automatically download every single game, demo and app as a lha file