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Loading your own programs
THEA500 Mini
allows you to load your own programs from a USB stick.
THEA500 Mini
uses a program format called WHDLoad which was developed
for the Amiga to allow floppy disk based programs to be quickly loaded from
a hard disk without the user needing to swap floppy disks.
There are four requirements that must be met for
THEA500 Mini
to recognise
and load a WHDLoad program:
●
that the USB stick is formatted with a FAT32 MBR filesystem,
●
that the USB stick has
THEA500 WHDLoad Package
installed on it,
●
that the WHDLoad program is an LHA file,
●
that the WHDLoad program is a complete archive of the program and
not the program’s WHDLoad installer.
When you insert a correctly formatted USB stick into
THEA500 Mini
, an
additional item will appear on the game carousel titled
USB Media Access
.
Select this item and press
A
to browse and run WHDLoad programs from
the USB stick.
THEA500 WHDLoad Package
must be installed on the USB stick. It contains
information on thousands of WHDLoad programs for the Amiga and helps
THEA500 Mini
load and run them.
On selecting
USB Media Access
and pressing
A
,
THEA500 Mini
will tell you if
THEA500 WHDLoad Package
is not installed on the USB stick.
If you see this warning, follow the on-screen instructions, those on the Retro
Games website, and in this manual to obtain and install
THEA500 WHDLoad
Package
onto the USB stick.
