.lha files cannot be loaded? Supported?

[agerhard0]

Hello lubomyr,

just installed uae4arm (crDroid 8.2/Android 12) and got the free ROMs of Giana's Return, Katakis and R-Type (Factor 5 website). Extracting the .zips I receive a .lha-file for each game.

However they cannot be selected via the floppy drive, as the files are not shown in the folder they were copied to?

Is this format not supported?

Thx.

cu, agerhard

[mike111769]

I could be incorrect, but Dopus 4 can extract .lha files.

Mike

Mike

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Hello lubomyr,

just installed uae4arm (crDroid 8.2/Android 12) and got the free ROMs of Giana's Return, Katakis and R-Type (Factor 5 website). Extracting the .zips I receive a .lha-file for each game.

However they cannot be selected via the floppy drive?

Is this format not supported?

Thx.

cu, agerhard

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[agerhard0]

Hello Mike, not sure if I understand your comment. The .zip are already extracted to .lha and then copied to a ROM folder in the UAE4ARM folder structure (uae4arm/files/ROM/Amiga/...). But selecting the folder - none of these three files are displayed for selection at all.

[mike111769]

Well, if memory serves .lha is basically a compression format.

You boot up the Amiga and extract the files..

LHA was a compression algorithm popular in the early 1990s, especially on Amiga computers. It was similar in concept to Zip on PCs, but was slightly more efficient. Amiga software was frequently distributed in LHA file format. Most modern PC file decompressors, such as 7zip and WinRAR, can extract the LHA file format.

Mike

[agerhard0]

Hello Mike - correct from the history-side. But these days the .lha-format is to use WHDLoad function for Amiga ROMs in emulators.

However just found out, that the .zip-files of Katakis actually works fine directly without extraction. Will check the others.

[mike111769]

Oh ok, ya, I just unzipped mine to a game directory, and ran them... But ya .lha should work fine in WHDload.

Had a hell of a time getting that to work in the first place.. lol let us know for others..

Edit

And I honestly did not know I could keep it in .zip format and run it in Whdload.

[agerhard0]

Hello Mike, R-Type as .zip from www.factor5.com is working fine as well. I am really surprised - especially as I am using the built-in ROM/Kickstart files and have not added my own ones.

[mike111769]

I'll check the site, All the Whdload ROMs I've downloaded was from Whdload..

But that sounds really cool.

[agerhard0]

Ok, Giana's Return is provided by https://www.gianas-return.de as .lha only. Renaming or compressing it into .zip does not work - after start just getting a "cat-eye-screen" with the message "AROS - waiting for bootable media".

Would be great if anyone has an idea about how to get either .lha selectable/bootable here or how to make the .lha a working .zip

[agerhard0]

So - Giana's Return is provided as AmigaOS4 and AROS (like built-in Kickstart) version separately. Using the AROS .lha however again no luck. Renaming or compressing it into .zip does not work - after start just getting a "cat-eye-screen" with the message "AROS - waiting for bootable media" again.

How do I transform this .lha into a working .zip?

While Katakis/R-Type are ~600kb, the Giana-file is 8MB. Could this be an issue?

[mike111769]

Ok, I'm confused, so I'll probably leave this up to somebody else...

First I don't get why a floppy, should be lha, lha is a compression format for Amiga, not a floppy. WHDLOAD website had all the files zipped, you unzip them to the HDD in a directory say, Ultima III, you go in double click it and it runs the game..

Whdload just in the name means running off the HDD.

Beat answer I can figure is unzipped (lha) it to a hard drive, boot the Amiga, and go in and look for a file the will setup the blank floppy image.

Other then that I haven't clue, sorry.

So ill leave it up to others that a more versed then me in the Amiga, my first Amiga was UAE!

But I'll watch. Maybe I'll figure it with others input.

Mike

[agerhard0]

Myself also never had an Amiga - was on C64 back then.

Checked again: as the Factor5 .zip-files contain .adf-files of the games, UAE4ARM is just decompressing those and runs them.

The Giana*s Return .lha however contains a full folder structure with game files and a .nfo on top level.

Maybe I just ask there, whether they can provide the game as .adf/.zip as well.

[mike111769]

no that .nfo file is the icon for the Amiga tlo load the game. Basically an icon.

I created a crap load of them to run games.

Again Directory Opus 4, 5 if it's paid for.

Edit

and yes I started on a ti-99 (Google it), then the vic 20, C64, and tried to get my dad to buy a Franklin, apple] [e clone.

Got a c128 lol!

[mike111769]

Start.

https://classicwb.abime.net/

find or purchase a legal copy of the latest workbench and Kickstart. You can't count on the ASOS, I've used it, it sucks for my use.

use Amiga for Amiga.

And 3.5 is the true latest Amiga, not 3.9 or higher, although I have 3.9 in a separate directory.

[mike111769]

And yes the lha you described is absolutely a whdload file.. and agreed either ask for the adf, or hunt it down..

Good luck

[agerhard0]

Got a feedback from game project side: the DLs are for AmigaOS/PPC or AROS/x86 units only. So the game in this form cannot run in UAE4ARM.