Any AMIGA users?

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Dec 31 11:00:21 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com]

> Decided to pull out my amiga 500 and a PHOENIX hard drive
> that fits it.
> plugged it all in and the hard drive spins up, but the amiga
> still prompts
> for a system floppy. can a PC download and create an amiga
> system disk? i

Short answer: No. ;)

Long answer:

The amiga floppy format is 880k. The standard peesee drive/controller setup won't do it. You may be in luck if you have a catweasel controller or a compati-card.

Otherwise, you can probably write them with a macintosh. You can also possibly do it with some unix machines, or if you have a VAX with 3.5" floppy, or alpha... I was going to try with my sparc IPC, myself.

On another note, I have a set of disks that will boot my amiga 1000. Kickstart and OS 1.2 (I think?). I don't know whether OS 1.2 will work on your 500, nor have I any idea whether the OS you get absolutely must be matched to the kickstart version (in ROM on the 500...) I'd be willing to give it a try anyway, though, if you can't find something that's more of a "sure bet."

> want to see what this computer is capable of.

The only fully working '500 I've seen was very impressive in context.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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