I want to set up a new CF card for my Amiga A1200 using FS–UAE on macOS. I think this is identical or almost identical to FS–UAE on Linux and fairly similar to WinUAE as well. Unfortunately, it looks like FS–UAE isn’t being further developed at the moment.
My A1200 has a CF card extension cable with a slot on the outside of the case for easy swapping of CF cards.
I want to set this card up with Workbench 3.0 and FFS because I'm having lots of problems with a 32Gb card which has 2 of 3 partitions in PFS3 format. It seems to be an EAB A1200 preinstalled card. I want to install lots of applications on this card and very few games, if any games at all. I want to install Deluxe Paint V, Personal Paint, Dopus, some programming languages, probably some music software, CF card reading software, the ForwmaldiHyd graphics tablet driver, as well as possibly TCP/IP iBrowse, and AWeb.
macOS can read the format FAT32 by default, but not Amiga formats. I want to have the possibility of adding software to my card sometime later after first installing it on macOS. My plan is to add some more software to the CF card later on using FSUAE on macOS again.
I’ve already got a 4Gb CF card which I set up in 2015 using Linux, but I find that I can’t read it using FS-UAE on macOS. It doesn’t tell me anything such as that I haven’t got permission to read it. What happens is that macOS just doesn’t recognise the format at all and it doesn’t appear in FS-UAE on macOS. I don’t want this to happen to my new CF cards!
There seem to be lots of compatibility issues with CF cards as well. I heard that most SanDisk and Transcend CF cards were compatible, but I’ve also seen a detailed list somewhere else! What should I do?
