19 April 2010, 16:17 | #61 |
Miggy Ate My Hamster!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lancashire, UK
Posts: 1,566
|
Ok so the OP has enough space for a "shitload" of floppies but no space for a real Amiga why not just get a nice little A600? It's tiny and can be stored away quite easily when not in use
EDIT: i also don't like the idea of original Amiga disks being destroyed |
19 April 2010, 16:52 | #62 |
The 1 who ribbits
|
come back leyton all is forgiven
|
19 April 2010, 16:58 | #63 |
HOL/FTP busy bee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 31,718
|
|
19 April 2010, 17:54 | #64 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Djursland / Denmark
Posts: 29
|
I am still here and euphoric about the fact that WinUAE can read both .zip and .7z files! This means I don't have to destroy any original amiga disk, which would be stupid, I admit! It was out of desperation.
I think I might have cracked this nut by using the diskswapper in UAE - I'll try and inserting disk 1, and read it into slot 1, then disk 2 into slot 2 (actually wish you could use the diskswapper for one single drive). Then it should ask for an adf file that is not present, but still the path would be loaded - and matched when the proper disk is inserted. Still a little tricky... |
19 April 2010, 17:58 | #65 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Djursland / Denmark
Posts: 29
|
Quote:
"A shitload of floppies" > "A shitload of floppies" + "A nice little A600". To be serious, I live in a shed in the woods with app. 6 square metres to play with and 2 of 'em is already occupied by my worktable. |
|
19 April 2010, 18:01 | #66 |
HOL/FTP busy bee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 31,718
|
|
19 April 2010, 18:06 | #67 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Djursland / Denmark
Posts: 29
|
Another question - when the Amiga asks for disk 2 f.i., how does it recognize when the right disk is inserted?
I mean: in UAE, you click the .adf file to load, but in this case you plug in the disk and the Amiga reads it. Is it like DOS and exe's or how does it work? |
19 April 2010, 18:07 | #68 | |
Miggy Ate My Hamster!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lancashire, UK
Posts: 1,566
|
Quote:
Anyway at least you've decided not to trash original Amiga disks also Winuae is still a great piece of software and is the next best thing compared to using real C= hardware (i'm not including Minimig ). |
|
19 April 2010, 18:50 | #69 |
The 1 who ribbits
|
because the amiga os was`t written by morons so when you insert a disk the amiga knows about it
|
19 April 2010, 21:10 | #70 | |
WinUAE developer
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland
Age: 49
Posts: 26,534
|
Do I need to say something here? Too confusing
Quote:
(I think I was not supposed to reply that one but as I said, this is confusing and weird thread..) |
|
19 April 2010, 21:18 | #71 |
The 1 who ribbits
|
now look what you have done, confused toni hehehehehe
of course was getting me pc confused with me amiga |
19 April 2010, 21:23 | #72 | |
uber cool demi god
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Kent/England
Posts: 2,073
|
Quote:
|
|
20 April 2010, 03:30 | #73 |
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Salem, OR
Posts: 1,770
|
Actually, I don't think the idea per se is that crazy...
I can see putting an ADF in the PC floppy. Since PCs don't detect disk changes (right?), you'd have to hit a key to tell WinUAE that a floppy change has happened, and it reacts as tho there was a disk change (reads the first *.adf file on the disk). For some purists, who like floppies, there's some appeal to that. I like floppy disks and went the real Amiga route, but it's an interesting idea. The problems I see are that WinUAE is probably running out of buttons to map :-) and PC floppies are already almost a thing of the past.. I could see 6 PC floppies each with a Dragon's Lair ADF on it to give you that real retro feel. :-) desiv |
20 April 2010, 11:12 | #74 |
Lesser Talent
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK
Age: 42
Posts: 7,957
|
Or you could quite easily just have 2 blank floppy disks, load the adfs into the diskswapper normally, and use the same button to just swap adfs.
The fact that you take a floppy disk out and put it back in doesn't really matter if your pressing a button anyway. Heck, you could even put labels on them! |
20 April 2010, 11:29 | #75 |
Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Oxford, UK
Age: 43
Posts: 511
|
Presumably you could even do that with your original Amiga game disks... pointless of course
|
20 April 2010, 11:32 | #76 |
Lesser Talent
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK
Age: 42
Posts: 7,957
|
Yep you could.
Then it'd be just like the good old days! |
20 April 2010, 11:57 | #77 |
Phone Homer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: 5150
Posts: 5,789
|
It wont realy work -Well I dont think it will work how you want, It will read the ADF Once from the Floppy disk and then the ADF will be in memory and no more loading from real floppy disk.
|
20 April 2010, 11:57 | #78 |
HOL/FTP busy bee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 31,718
|
Yes, yes like the good old days... Is the cursing that a disk just f**ked up and shouting 'come on!' at the floppy for taking too long to load included? Maybe Toni could implement random disk errors aswell?
Awww You mean it's not like a real floppy? |
20 April 2010, 14:28 | #79 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Djursland / Denmark
Posts: 29
|
Okay, I think I got my answers here - thank you very much for your patience!
I will stick to storing my adf's in zipped format on the original amiga disks I can find and unzipped on the 1440kb disks I bought and go with UAE for now. Have a nice one! |
20 April 2010, 14:34 | #80 |
Lesser Talent
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK
Age: 42
Posts: 7,957
|
DESTROYING AMIGA DISKS!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
WinUAE 2.2.0 crashes when using custom floppydrive sounds | trackah123 | support.WinUAE | 6 | 02 July 2010 16:36 |
A500 Floppydrive makes random weird buzzing-sounds. | trackah123 | support.Hardware | 8 | 10 May 2010 20:37 |
reading amiga floppys using only 1 drive on winuae | Eliotg | request.UAE Wishlist | 9 | 01 February 2009 17:16 |
ADF/IPF reading/writing on a PC? | cappuchok | support.Hardware | 19 | 03 October 2006 05:45 |
Amiga reading .adf | coleco | Retrogaming General Discussion | 9 | 03 September 2002 07:07 |
|
|