x68000:installing_games_to_hard_drive
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| x68000:installing_games_to_hard_drive [2012/02/21 01:24] – eidis | x68000:installing_games_to_hard_drive [2012/02/21 01:29] – eidis | ||
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| Here we can see drivers being loaded and environmental variables being set up. | Here we can see drivers being loaded and environmental variables being set up. | ||
| *The mandatory variables and drivers like **USKCG.SYS** and **FLOAT2.X** are being set up each time when booting from HDD so most of these lines can be safely ignored. | *The mandatory variables and drivers like **USKCG.SYS** and **FLOAT2.X** are being set up each time when booting from HDD so most of these lines can be safely ignored. | ||
| - | *Drivers are usually loaded from "SYS" | + | *Drivers are usually loaded from **SYS** and **BIN** directories. |
| In this example **OPMDRV3.X** and **IOCS.X** are the ones which interest us. First we must check if they can be executed after the system has fully booted. If yes, then there is a good chance that the game can be installed to HDD. | In this example **OPMDRV3.X** and **IOCS.X** are the ones which interest us. First we must check if they can be executed after the system has fully booted. If yes, then there is a good chance that the game can be installed to HDD. | ||
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| - | Here we can see another environmental variable called **PATH** being set up. In this case we can go with the lazy method and **SUBST** to the directory (Example #2) where we have copied the game or we can change the paths so that we don't have to do **SUBST**. | + | Here we can see another environmental variable called **PATH** being set up. In this case we can go with the lazy method and **SUBST** to the directory (Example #2) where we have copied the game or we can change the paths so that we don't have to do **SUBST**. Please note that there are games which still need **SUBST** even after modifying the **PATH** variable. |
| - | *Remove references to **A:\**, **\** or **B:\** if they are present | + | *Remove references to **\** **A:\** **B:\** if they are present |
| *Write **OPMDRV3.X** and **IOCS.X** after the line which defines **PATH** | *Write **OPMDRV3.X** and **IOCS.X** after the line which defines **PATH** | ||
| *Rename autoexec.bat to !Start.bat. | *Rename autoexec.bat to !Start.bat. | ||
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