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call me 'Mr. Happy'

Posted: 06/09/2005 - 20:06
by Steve B
just bought a 5.25" floppy drive on e-bay for £4.99 and plugged it into the catweasel ...
I CAN CONVERT C64 DISKS TO .D64 !!!!! :D

if you dont have one of these fantastic devices i am telling you to get one right now !
all my amiga and C64 disks can now be safely put on the pc :D

my PC may meltdown at any time mind .. i now have in the (very sexy) A-Top Gladiator case--
4 hard drives (80,120,40 gig IDE and a 200 gig SATA)
1 CD-RW/DVD combi
1 DVD-RW
2 3.5" floppy drives (one pc, one catweasel)
1 5.25" floppy (catweasel)
1 catweasel board
1 IDE expander board (for the two optical drives)
1 n-Vidia Ge-force 6600 GT plugged into 2 17" monitors
2 gig of RAM
1 athlon 64 3000
7 fans

the lights in the house dim when i switch the thing on and i get christmas cards from the electric company :shock:

Posted: 06/09/2005 - 20:17
by Chris Abbott
... and when you do 3D modelling we have to import extra electricity from China :)

Posted: 06/09/2005 - 20:31
by Steve B
thats why i 'bryce' at night ...
its cheaper :wink:

Posted: 06/09/2005 - 22:18
by Analog-X64
I need to convert my C64 Disks into PC. I built one of those x1541 cables now whats a good software to use to make backups? Mind you I have some Protected Disks that I'd like to be able to backup as well.

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 5:26
by Steve B
there is a good converter program that comes with the catweasel. i dont know if it works with the x1541 cable though ...

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 9:55
by Driller
I have an SGI Octane 2 workstation that uses a HUGE amount of power :)

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 14:41
by trace
What is catweasel? :)

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 16:16
by Steve B
the catweasel is a pci card that, if you plug a 3.5" drive into you can read Amiga disks and convert them to .ADF format.
If you plug a 5.25" drive in, you can read C64 disks

link http://ami.ga/indexe.htm

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 16:27
by westerling
I´m very happy for you. :D

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 17:43
by trace
cool, how do i get one of those cards? :)

Posted: 07/09/2005 - 18:20
by Steve B
http://www.kdh-amiga-shop.com/catalog/p ... cts_id=726

the new Mk 4 is 99 euros



you can also put a SID chip in it and play sid sounds through the real thing :D