New Amiga 500 owner - Page 2

A500Man · 18 February 2012, 22:17

Hm,

to have your Amiga "floppyless" the HCX is the only well running device. Harddisks for the Amiga are available, but just few games have a harddisk-installer on board. And WDH-Load is not available for all games.

But, why do you want to go "floppyless"? You can still re-tinker a newly made floppy-drive (Samsung SFD-321B) to use it in your Amiga:

http://www.forum64.de/wbb3/board314-...00/#post453971

The bigger prob` is to get DD-floppy-disks. These are not produced anymore, and HD-disks are not that reliable when used with an Amiga. So: get enough DD`s ...

CU,
A500Man

ApolloBoy2 · 18 February 2012, 22:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by A500Man

But, why do you want to go "floppyless"?

I've never really liked floppies and the idea of being able to load games off a flash card is way more appealing than having to write a bunch of floppies every time I want to try some new games.

CritAnime · 19 February 2012, 16:24

It was a tough decission to go floppyless on my amiga. But when turrican 2 gave up the ghost and my floppy drive completely died only a week later I decided time for a change. The SD version is amazing and I have not run into any issues with it as yet. The mainniggle is that you have to use the software to convert from .adf to .hfe. But its not so bad once you start using the batch converter. The usb version is cheaper but you need a desktop or laptop computer feeding it images.

ApolloBoy2 · 24 June 2012, 08:35

Thought I'd give this a bump as I have a new question. I've been going to a local Amiga group for the past couple months and today I managed to get a copy of Workbench 1.3 that I needed for Amiga Explorer, which I'm using until I find a flash card solution. I've made a few floppies so far but most of the games I've tried so far are PAL. I didn't think this would be that big of a problem since I'm using an RGB monitor, but it's getting annoying playing games with part of the screen missing and having them run too fast.

So does anyone know of a solution that will allow me to play PAL games as intended on my NTSC A500? I can't do a hardware mod unfortunately as my A500 doesn't have the correct Agnus chip needed for that.

thgill · 24 June 2012, 14:49

What revision is the motherboard in your A500?

ApolloBoy2 · 24 June 2012, 19:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by thgill

What revision is the motherboard in your A500?

It's a rev. 5 board so it doesn't have the dual NTSC/PAL Fat Agnus.

rampartsagain · 24 June 2012, 19:59

have to buy agnus and change it

thgill · 25 June 2012, 02:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ApolloBoy2

It's a rev. 5 board so it doesn't have the dual NTSC/PAL Fat Agnus.

Which Agnus version does it have?

ApolloBoy2 · 25 June 2012, 04:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by thgill

Which Agnus version does it have?

It has the original 8370 Fat Agnus.

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18 February 2012, 22:17	#21
A500Man Registered User Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Germany Posts: 20	Hm, to have your Amiga "floppyless" the HCX is the only well running device. Harddisks for the Amiga are available, but just few games have a harddisk-installer on board. And WDH-Load is not available for all games. But, why do you want to go "floppyless"? You can still re-tinker a newly made floppy-drive (Samsung SFD-321B) to use it in your Amiga: http://www.forum64.de/wbb3/board314-...00/#post453971 The bigger prob` is to get DD-floppy-disks. These are not produced anymore, and HD-disks are not that reliable when used with an Amiga. So: get enough DD`s ... CU, A500Man

19 February 2012, 16:24	#23
CritAnime Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Wakefield/UK Age: 41 Posts: 387	It was a tough decission to go floppyless on my amiga. But when turrican 2 gave up the ghost and my floppy drive completely died only a week later I decided time for a change. The SD version is amazing and I have not run into any issues with it as yet. The mainniggle is that you have to use the software to convert from .adf to .hfe. But its not so bad once you start using the batch converter. The usb version is cheaper but you need a desktop or laptop computer feeding it images.

24 June 2012, 08:35	#24
ApolloBoy2 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: San Jose, CA, USA Age: 34 Posts: 19	Thought I'd give this a bump as I have a new question. I've been going to a local Amiga group for the past couple months and today I managed to get a copy of Workbench 1.3 that I needed for Amiga Explorer, which I'm using until I find a flash card solution. I've made a few floppies so far but most of the games I've tried so far are PAL. I didn't think this would be that big of a problem since I'm using an RGB monitor, but it's getting annoying playing games with part of the screen missing and having them run too fast. So does anyone know of a solution that will allow me to play PAL games as intended on my NTSC A500? I can't do a hardware mod unfortunately as my A500 doesn't have the correct Agnus chip needed for that.

24 June 2012, 14:49	#25
thgill Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mason, Ohio / USA Age: 48 Posts: 391	What revision is the motherboard in your A500?

24 June 2012, 19:59	#27
rampartsagain Registered User Join Date: May 2012 Location: Porto/Portugal Posts: 385	have to buy agnus and change it

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