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Thanks a lot Greg
But this means that i can only install in to the HD, games that are specially designed to run from HD?
No games like sens soccer,moonstone,jimmy powers etc can be installed.
Is there any manual way to copy them to HD and try to load them?
You are very helpfull
Nikos


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Hi Nikos,

Unfortunately, very few Amiga games were ever designed to be installed and run from a hard drive. Most were designed to be run with the game in the floppy drive, and booted up. If a game was designed to be installed onto a hard drive, the manual always included special instructions on how to do it. If there are no instructions for this, there is no manual way you can install them to the hard drive, as Amiga games rely on specific load routines that can only be read and used from the game diskette itself.

I hope this helps!

Greg

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