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IvanEBC · 15 March 2018, 16:50

Hiya.

Finally got Shapeshifter up and running on real hardware (A4000). There's no real technical issues running it.

I used a pre fab "Games" drive but found it (cammies on EAB FTP) but was missing a few classics i wanted to play, i couldn't see a non destructive way to increase the HDD size so i did the following:

"Copied" the contents from within Shapeshifter to the Amiga using the DOSdriver supplied.

Created a new Mac partition to the larger size i wanted.

Copied a few games from the Amiga back into Shapeshifters new drive i created.

The folders appear in SS but the programs don't run, not even basic readme type text files (Always Error -39). I noticed alot of filenames seem replaced with a box and wonder if this is what is destroying the files and if there is a way to do this process without damaging the files. Of course other suggestions i'm open too as well.

SS 3.11
MacOS 7.6.1
Old Size 200mb - new size 850mb (despite me pretty sure saying 500mb) - but 800 is fine

Thank you.

15 March 2018, 16:50	#1
IvanEBC Registered User Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Adelaide / Australia Posts: 566	Shapeshifter <-> Amiga = damaged files Hiya. Finally got Shapeshifter up and running on real hardware (A4000). There's no real technical issues running it. I used a pre fab "Games" drive but found it (cammies on EAB FTP) but was missing a few classics i wanted to play, i couldn't see a non destructive way to increase the HDD size so i did the following: "Copied" the contents from within Shapeshifter to the Amiga using the DOSdriver supplied. Created a new Mac partition to the larger size i wanted. Copied a few games from the Amiga back into Shapeshifters new drive i created. The folders appear in SS but the programs don't run, not even basic readme type text files (Always Error -39). I noticed alot of filenames seem replaced with a box and wonder if this is what is destroying the files and if there is a way to do this process without damaging the files. Of course other suggestions i'm open too as well. SS 3.11 MacOS 7.6.1 Old Size 200mb - new size 850mb (despite me pretty sure saying 500mb) - but 800 is fine Thank you.