An 'Amiga-Disk-Drive-Ona-PC-Box-Thing' Type Question.

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 16/03/2004 - 11:46

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 ..

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 16/03/2004 - 11:54

Steve, I'll sell you a Catweasel if you like, then you can read the disks using a PC disk drive

Chris

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 16/03/2004 - 11:57

a what now ???

Rafael Dyll · Post by **Rafael Dyll** » 16/03/2004 - 12:40

Hey Chris,

Are you shipping Jens Schoenfeld's Catweasel? You mean that?

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 16/03/2004 - 12:42

Rafael.
what do you know that i dont know ?

Post by **C64GLeN** » 16/03/2004 - 12:44

Disk2FDI people

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 16/03/2004 - 12:47

OK ! Now your talking alien !
I dont do foreign!
eengleesh oonleee pleeeze

Boz · Post by **Boz** » 16/03/2004 - 12:57

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?

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 16/03/2004 - 13:12

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 ?

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 16/03/2004 - 15:25

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

skitz · Post by **skitz** » 16/03/2004 - 19:14

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

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 16/03/2004 - 19:29

> 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

Steve B · Post by **Steve B** » 17/03/2004 - 9:16

an email is on its way to you requesting one

Hille · Post by **Hille** » 17/03/2004 - 11:04

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

arvirus · Post by **arvirus** » 17/03/2004 - 20:36

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