Reviving my old Amiga hard drive

[teppic]

I had an A1200 which I used from 1992 up to about 1996. Since then it's been stored away and never used. I thought I'd dig it out and give it a try, but couldn't get it to work. So I thought maybe try to access the hard drive in WinUAE.

I took the machine apart and removed the HDD. I put it in a USB enclosure but it didn't work. So I bought a £2 IDE-SATA adapter from ebay, and the drive came up fine. Then I made a full image of the drive in Linux, and it gave no read errors and a full 170mb copy of the hard drive.

Next I started up WinUAE (together with the Blizzard 030 expansion I have). It refused to boot, but I was eventually able to edit the startup-sequence to remove two lines (which updated the ROM to 3.1, but seemed to break WinUAE), and then it was all fine. It seems I was using Super72 mode interlaced.

So after 20 years, here is my desktop booted again just as it was last time I used it on the real computer. It brings back a lot of memories.

[SkulleateR]

Allways nice to see

[brett71]

I've been wanting to find some of those drive icons for a while, or very similar ones. I used to have them way back on my old Amigas but I don't recall where I got them from...

[TenLeftFingers]

Originally Posted by skulleater

allways nice to see

+1 !

[teppic]

Originally Posted by brett71

I've been wanting to find some of those drive icons for a while, or very similar ones. I used to have them way back on my old Amigas but I don't recall where I got them from...

Aren't they just defaults from MUI?

[prowler]

Originally Posted by teppic

Aren't they just defaults from MUI?

I've seen them on Magic Workbench, IIRC, so you could well be right.

[Jope]

They're from MagicWB. MUI happens to have a theme (Xen) by the author of MagicWB.

[teppic]

Yeah, I had a look last night and MagicWB is installed. I don't know which version as I couldn't find any installation files. I've also got MUI 3.6 installed, but I forgot that that is just the widgets and stuff.

[edd_jedi]

Cool, that's a pretty sophisticated setup for 1996 - email, IRC, FTP etc. My A1200 never got anywhere near the internet.

[teppic]

Originally Posted by edd_jedi

Cool, that's a pretty sophisticated setup for 1996 - email, IRC, FTP etc. My A1200 never got anywhere near the internet.

I went online with my Amiga around 1993 - I remember having it mostly for IRC, email and telnet, as there was no real web then. I think it was complicated by today's standards, it wasn't just click to dial up and connect. I don't remember Miami at all, but I was obviously using it -- I can remember using AmiTCP though.