Compact Flash PCMCIA on an A600

sdaonline · 11 February 2011, 20:09

Hi, apologies if this has been asked a zillion times! Trying to return to the scene...

I've got a Compact Flash / PCMCIA solution ready to go with a boot disk, I only want to use it on an A600* to transfer ADF's back to floppy, would I still need to upgrade the RAM and hunt down a particular version of Kickstart that recognises the card size, as I have seen said various posts dotted about saying this.

*This is all in theory as I haven't purchased an A600 yet, but I hope you get my drift! (still saving up)

thanks in advance!

rockersuke · 11 February 2011, 23:22

If it's all about turning adf files into real floppies any unexpanded A600 should do, or at least that was my experience when I first came back to Amiga-land some years ago. MY A600 had a 2.05 kickstart (rev 37.300) and just 1 MB of chip RAM. It booted from the disk included on a PCMCIA-CF adapter kit which included the needed drivers to handle the external CF and programs to make the adf-real foppy conversion (like adf2disk)

In no time, anyway, I wanted to play games straight out of the CF card, so upgrading to 2 MB and eventually adding an internal hard disk to boot from made life easier

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amigakit.com · 12 February 2011, 01:24

Our EasyADF PCMCIA CF Transfer Kit requires 1MB of RAM (self booting) so that would be sufficient.

sdaonline · 13 February 2011, 04:30

Thanks for the info!

11 February 2011, 20:09	#1
sdaonline Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Skegness, UK Age: 37 Posts: 16	Compact Flash PCMCIA on an A600 Hi, apologies if this has been asked a zillion times! Trying to return to the scene... I've got a Compact Flash / PCMCIA solution ready to go with a boot disk, I only want to use it on an A600* to transfer ADF's back to floppy, would I still need to upgrade the RAM and hunt down a particular version of Kickstart that recognises the card size, as I have seen said various posts dotted about saying this. *This is all in theory as I haven't purchased an A600 yet, but I hope you get my drift! (still saving up) thanks in advance!

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11 February 2011, 23:22	#2
rockersuke Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Madrid / Spain Age: 56 Posts: 258	If it's all about turning adf files into real floppies any unexpanded A600 should do, or at least that was my experience when I first came back to Amiga-land some years ago. MY A600 had a 2.05 kickstart (rev 37.300) and just 1 MB of chip RAM. It booted from the disk included on a PCMCIA-CF adapter kit which included the needed drivers to handle the external CF and programs to make the adf-real foppy conversion (like adf2disk) In no time, anyway, I wanted to play games straight out of the CF card, so upgrading to 2 MB and eventually adding an internal hard disk to boot from made life easier --

12 February 2011, 01:24	#3
amigakit.com Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: www.amigakit.com Posts: 2,019	Our EasyADF PCMCIA CF Transfer Kit requires 1MB of RAM (self booting) so that would be sufficient.

13 February 2011, 04:30	#4
sdaonline Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Skegness, UK Age: 37 Posts: 16	Thanks for the info!

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