A streamer friend of mine tried to play the Amiga Buck Rogers just to have a disk swap fail because however Amiga preservationists package up Amiga games is apparently really, really jank and the person who did this one didn't really test it.

I wish I knew this stuff better; I tried to look but apparently Amiga dumps are just entire hard disk images full of patched binaries to shim disk access calls and wow.

So now I'm trying to quickly research if DOS dumps out there are playable.

@trysdyn This sounds like a tricky one, mind if I boost it in case anyone wants to look into it?

@elfi Oh the Amiga WHDL issue? At this point we've mostly written it off as "Whoever did the WHDL missed the disk swap handler because it has a different codepath from startup"

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@trysdyn Well, maybe someone has a better rip that can be put up. If the floppy disks I inherited from my Grandpa are still good, I might see what I can do for the games on them when I get them from Seattle...

...actually, hm, how would you like to foster an amiga

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