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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 oppy disk based programs to be quickly loaded from
a hard disk without the user needing to swap oppy 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 lesystem,
● that the USB stick has THEA500 WHDLoad Package installed on it,
● that the WHDLoad program is an LHA le,
● 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.
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