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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Application questions and support => Topic started by: garyg on February 15, 2021, 06:05:53 PM

Title: Is there any way other than Spider to read flash drives on a classic Amiga?
Post by: garyg on February 15, 2021, 06:05:53 PM

I have a Mediator, so I could read flash drives with a Spider
but my main Amiga is an OS 3.9 A4000D with an available Zorro slot.

Is there any way to read flash drives on the latter Amiga?

Title: Re: Is there any way other than Spider to read flash drives on a classic Amiga?
Post by: TribbleSmasher on February 15, 2021, 06:30:33 PM

If you are lucky beyond belief you can try to find a Deneb card. Reserve a kidney as payment.

Title: Re: Is there any way other than Spider to read flash drives on a classic Amiga?
Post by: QuikSanz on February 15, 2021, 08:48:36 PM

Or an Algor...

Title: Re: Is there any way other than Spider to read flash drives on a classic Amiga?
Post by: Matt_H on February 15, 2021, 10:27:35 PM

Easiest option right now is probably an XSurf100 with a RapidRoad module - I think those are both still in good supply at a number of dealers. If you have another card that gives you a clockport you could get just the RapidRoad, although it won't be as fast. Bear in mind that there are two versions of the RapidRoad - one for clockports only and one for the XSurf100 or clockports.

Other options are Highway, Algor, Deneb, or Thylacine cards, but they're only available second-hand.

Title: Re: Is there any way other than Spider to read flash drives on a classic Amiga?
Post by: kolla on February 16, 2021, 12:40:49 PM

There's also SD card drive for the parallel port... if SD cards count as "flash drive".