I ordered a floppy emulator board about a week or so ago and while it has yet to arrive, I have been thinking of what the optimal way to hook it up should be.
I got word that the emulator will work when incased in a floppy drive enclosure and hooked to the Amiga's floppy port. I figured "great!" as this would be a graceful way of hooking it up without having to remove my internal Amiga 500 floppy drive.
I have a 3.1 rom installed on the A500, which of course everybody knows I am sure that it has the functionality of allowing floppies to boot from an external drive. So, when I mount an ADF to the HxC installed to DF1:, it'll boot.
BUT, what about games that require 1.3 rom? I have been using real floppies up until this point of course, and have been using Relokick to kick the machine into 1.3 to load those games and programs....which appear to be quite a few.
If I were to load Relokick with the floppy emulator on DF1:, upon reboot the system would only be able to boot from DF0: (1.3 limitation). In other words, I would be able to "get" to 1.3, but from there I would not be able to boot the game that requires 1.3 from the emulator on DF1:
Would there be any way that you can think of around this other than simply biting the bullet and installing the floppy emulator inside of the Amiga 500?
