Expert: Gregory Donner - 10/24/2007

Question
Like every one else I dusted off my old Amiga 500 to relive the glory days (I bought it in 1989). I have hundreds of games and all work as if it was 1989. Then I searched ebay and found some games that were for my computer and began buying them. Anyway the ones I bought work fine except for one. I believe it was brand new. It was shrink wrapped. anyway the instruction manuel says it will boot right up when you put it in the drive. It churns for a second or two then returns back to the hand holding the disk. I have tried it in a second external drive too. If i put work bench in one drive and the bought game in the other -The disk shows up in the desk top and The question i wanted to know is can you boot a game from the desk top or can you access the game some other way than booting it up straight. i was able to duplicate the game on to a blank disk but that did not work either. maybe the Game is to new for my computer as it was made in 1991. the game is "Chips Challenge". It may be that it is just damaged but why would it show up on the desk top as a working disk. anyway thanks for your help? i look forward to your Answer.

Answer
Hi Aaron,

I'm not sure why "Chips Challenge" doesn't run on your Amiga, seeing as it was made in 1990/1991. Like you, I'm wondering why it doesn't boot from floppy but shows up on Workbench--it could be that it has an error outside of the boot sector that is making it fail shortly after it gets past the early boot process. Incidentally, a few Amiga games would let you run them from Workbench, but many games required booting from the diskette.

I found a page that talks about it, and has several users on it. I don't know whether they can shed some more light on this or not, but it's worth a try:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php...

I hope this helps!

Greg