[XCSSA] Amiga help??

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On Feb 3, 2007, at 8:14 PM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

> On Saturday 03 February 2007 14:49, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>> what about setting up a UAE environment on my PC, mounting the Amiga
>> hard drive as DH1: then copying everything across, then reinstalling
>> in the Amiga?

That's probably your best bet. I think it would be a good idea to use  
this as a second hard drive on your Amiga, however that is done,  
rather than writing to your only hard drive.

>> Is there a utility that will let me copy an ADF file to my PC's  
>> Catwefloppy?
>
> If you want a more quality solution.. check out the Catweasle Mk4  
> software
> programmable floppy controller (can't find a  a link for it just  
> now)...
>
> It lets your use PC floppy drives in "amiga mode"... as well as  
> other non-PC
> formats (1.77MB Amiga HD floppies, 880k, AppleII, old multispeed mac
> floppies, etc)
>
> Tweeks

FYI, I got a Catweasel 4 a couple of years ago.  Basically it's a  
disk controller that returns the timing between the magnetic field  
changes.  It does have a few weaknesses, the first being software  
good enough to make full use of the hardware, and the second being  
with disk systems that ignore the index hole when trying to read data  
that crosses the index hole.

I've mostly used it for 5 1/4" MFM format disks (imaging a bunch of  
Atari 800 disks I ended up with, plus most of my old TRS-80 disks),  
but I've played with writing code to read Apple II and C64 disks.   
(C64 GCR was a *lot* harder to keep in sync than Apple GCR.)

If the Amiga uses an MFM variation as I seem to recall it does, then  
you might try cw2dmk, which runs on Linux. The problem you will have  
then is finding a utility to convert between Amiga image formats and  
the .DMK format.  DMK is basically a raw dump of the MFM track data  
bytes.

  - Bruce -