01 July 2011, 09:00 | #1 |
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PCMCIA adapter with 256mb CF Card issue
Hi all,
I recently purchased a lovely bog-standard Amiga1200 (no memory upgrade, no hard drive). Just a simple, basic, but perfectly formed machine I've been wanting to play ADF's on my amiga. A little research led me to purchasing a PCMCIA adapter, a Sandisk 256mb CF Card, and some sort of workbench boot disk. So far I have managed to copy some ADF's to my CF Card, and booted my Amiga up so that it can see the CF Card contents. But that is as far as I can get. All these years of PC Windows useage has made me completely forget how to run programs on the Amiga. Here's a link showing you my amazing attempt at starting ADF2DISK on my Amiga: [ Show youtube player ] The left window shows the contents of my CF Card, the right window is the contents of the Floppy Disk. I'm just double-clicking stuff like a Windows numpty. Anyone can point me in the right direction on how to convert the ADF files on my CF Card, to a bootable disk in my Amiga? Remember that I dont have a hard-drive, and I have no idea what I'm doing other than what you can see in the video Many thanks. |
01 July 2011, 09:16 | #2 |
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.lha is not an executable file, it's an archive like .zip or .rar. You need to unpack it before you can run anything.
To unpack the .lha file you need a program called LhA. If you don't have it yet, get this from Aminet: http://aminet.net/util/arc/lha.run Double click it and enter lha.run ram: (i.e. add ram: to the end of the command line). Then select "execute command" from the workbench menu and enter copy ram:lha_68020 c:LhA. This will copy the 68020 version of the LhA program to the C directory of your boot disk. Now when you double click adf2disk.lha, you need to change the command line to lha x adf2disk.lha ram: After that you find adf2disk in Ram Disk and should copy it to where you want. |
01 July 2011, 09:32 | #3 |
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Thanks for the quick reply. I think I've done exactly what you mentioned. it failed first time because I had the Floppy disk protected. on Second attempt, after typing in lha x adf2disk.lha ram:
I get this error: cannot open "mathieeedoubbas.library", version 37. lha failed returncode 900 |
01 July 2011, 09:37 | #4 |
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Your boot disk is not complete.
Try this older version of LhA instead: http://aminet.net/util/arc/LhA_e138.run After entering lha_e138.run ram: reply y to the question "do you want to continue" and s to the second question. Then enter copy ram:LhA c: Now try again with adf2disk. |
01 July 2011, 09:53 | #5 |
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so far so good! I managed to open up adf2disk
as an experiment, I typed: adf2disk vroom.adf it then started doing something to the blank disk and completed. I restarted the Amiga and voila! the game loaded. although the graphics are completely screwed, I guess its an incompatabiliy with it being an A500 game trying to play on an A1200. I'll try other games in the meantime. MANY MANY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP |
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01 July 2011, 10:23 | #7 |
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Always worth trying OCS or ECS rather than AGA as well.
To enter the early startup menu hold down both mouse buttons while the computer is booting. |
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