Catweasel as df0 in WinUAE
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I have got a catweasel MK4 (with latest installed drivers) and it works really fine. Well, because: a) the catweasel utility: " imagetool " still does not support extended ADF or SoftPress disk images (CAPS disk images) b) the stored data on floppy disks do not exist/work for ever and can be lost in future ... I would like to know, if it is possible to mount floppy drives ( which are connected with the Catweasel ) as df0: in WinUAE. This would make it possible to use X-Copy or Softpres / Caps disk dumping utility with WinUAE and Catweasel. It would be great, if such a feature could be added to next WinUAE versions. Maybe in this way: [Pulldown menu for df0:] --c:\xxx\yyy.adf-- --c:\xxx\abc.adf-- --c:\xxx\123.adf-- ... --c:\xxx\xyz.adf-- ---catweasel:drive0--- ---catweasel:drive1--- ---catweasel:drive2--- ---catweasel:drive3--- |
Search other catweasel-related threads. CWMK4 core _still_ lacks the needed features for direct DF0: support.
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I had no idea this was the case, I've just wasted all that money on a Catweasel for this very purpose.
Why will they not update the core for this? Surely it what most people would want it for? I'd have kept using the Amiga>PC transfer system if I knew this. :mad -Joel |
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Jens Schoenfeld is now doing Clone-A which is almost certainly taking up all his free time. With the "Catweasel core" being his "long hard work" over many years I cannot see him open-sourcing the VHDL/Verilog for the FPGA any time soon. Seems a bit of a con for him to launch such a board with the promise of core updates and then never deliver on them. |
That's the bit that's kinda got me. Though I've only just got a Catweasel, I know how long it's been about and I swear I remember someone boasting about how their Catweasel setup sounds awsome with WinUAE. That's why I bought it.
Silly me. -Joel |
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I emailed them yesterday to see if there would be a firmware update in the future, we'll have to wait and see I guess.
-Joel |
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In fact they have just released an a driver update the which updates the firmware the other day. See http://www.jschoenfeld.com/news/news124_e.htm for more details. I am not saying its perfect but I have used it to backup over 100 disks and also to write a number of ASF images back to disk to use on my A1200 so it dose work. DF0 emulation under winUAE would be very nice as I would love to be able to create CAPS images from my PC, but I would not use DF0 support every day. |
From the latest update:
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Well that looks pretty interesting. -Joel |
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It is "only" about API changes that makes it easier for other applications to use Catweasel floppy. |
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