Another Amiga question

From: Gareth Knight <gknight_at_emugaming.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 15:11:45 2001

Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Where might it be downloaded?

I downloaded a copy of Owen's FreeGEM Distribution v1.2
http://www.owenrudge.co.uk/GEM/
The above web site also contains an MP3 player (486 and above)

Try http://www.freegem.org.uk/
http://www.freegem.org.uk/archives/distribs/freegem/
http://www.geocities.com/heinz_rath/
http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_thuth/pcgem/

Seal is another interesting DOS 32-bit GUI
http://seal.drdos.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sealsystem/

> Have you tried Frontier? I can't get that bloody game to install on any
PC.
> The Amiga version was just a matter of drag-and-drop.

I tried it a few months ago. I can't remember having any problems with it.
I'll give it another go.

Zane Healy wrote:
>The Catweasel board (at least when I bought mine had the software to read
>Amiga, PC, C-64, and maybe Macintosh floppies. It was advertised as being
>able to read a lot more different formats. The problem is, it doesn't (or
>at least didn't) have any software to do that.

I noticed that a software solution has appeared that may solve some of the
current disk problems using the standard PC disk controller.
http://fast.emuunlim.com/disk2fdi/
Though it cannot understand the file system, it claims to extract disk
information and store it as an FDI (Formatted Disk Image) or ADF (Amiga Disk
File) file.

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Gareth Knight
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Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 15:11:45 BST