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An 'Amiga-Disk-Drive-Ona-PC-Box-Thing' Type Question.
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 11:46
by Steve B
Has anyone built one of those boxes that lets you plug an Amiga external drive into the PC ?
if so, could you build me one ? (cash will change hands
)
i have some DPaint images and AMOS Pro demos of mine that i want to transfer ..
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 11:54
by Chris Abbott
Steve, I'll sell you a Catweasel if you like, then you can read the disks using a PC disk drive
Chris
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 11:57
by Steve B
a what now ???
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 12:40
by Rafael Dyll
Hey Chris,
Are you shipping Jens Schoenfeld's Catweasel? You mean that?
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 12:42
by Steve B
Rafael.
what do you know that i dont know ?
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 12:44
by C64GLeN
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 12:47
by Steve B
OK ! Now your talking alien !
I dont do foreign!
eengleesh oonleee pleeeze
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 12:57
by Boz
Hey Stevie B!
A Catweazel is a gizmo that you whack into your PC, and then you can connect a 3.5" floppy and read other native formats - like Amiga, for example.
It's also got a hole that you can hammer a SID into. WinVICE (for example) can then use this to play real SID with the emulation.
Is that non-technical enough for ya?
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 13:12
by Steve B
Boz wrote:Is that non-technical enough for ya?
If you can trust anyone to be as basic as 'a zx80 still in the box' its gonna be the Bozman
that does explain it all sonny jim me old fella me lad m8y boy !
so ..
monssure AhboT (its phonetic!) ... (and french ... ish)
(north of the tyne coming up...)
hOw much like ? hoo meny pennies is it gonna cost is ?
ever get the feeling alchohol is a bad thing ?
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 15:25
by Chris Abbott
Hmm, as usual I'm not exactly doing a hard sell on the website am I?
http://www.c64audio.com/theshop/pages/hardware.htm
I wondered why I hadn't been selling many
The driver CD was created by Skitz for BIT Live. Apparently someone's now written drivers which allow access to the disk drives from Windows Explorer. If that's true, then you can access C64 disks from Windows in a 5.25" floppy... wooo!
Chris
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 19:14
by skitz
And you never did replace the CD-R's! Still, it's nice to see my labels on the website
I am still not sure if it is possible to view the contents of foreign disks in Windows explorer but you can definately read/write many formats using the standard drivers.
Cheers
Posted: 16/03/2004 - 19:29
by Chris Abbott
> am still not sure if it is possible to view the contents of foreign disks
> in Windows explorer
Read about a new driver on Lemon64, but didn't follow it up for lack of time.
Chris
Posted: 17/03/2004 - 9:16
by Steve B
an email is on its way to you requesting one
Posted: 17/03/2004 - 11:04
by Hille
Are no-one using CrossDOS on the Amiga anymore??? I find that using it on my A4000/030 (with HD floppy-drive) I can read HD-formattet IBM disks with no problem...And hence copy them!
Of course, you have to settle for the 8.3 filename format...And still have an Amiga
Posted: 17/03/2004 - 20:36
by arvirus
Hille wrote:Are no-one using CrossDOS on the Amiga anymore??? I find that using it on my A4000/030 (with HD floppy-drive) I can read HD-formattet IBM disks with no problem...And hence copy them!
Of course, you have to settle for the 8.3 filename format...And still have an Amiga
it's easier to compress the whole amiga-disc with DMS into one image-file and copy it to a pc-formatted disc. you even can convert a dms-image to adf and can load your stuff into an emulator like UAE.
/arvid