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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: redrumloa on February 03, 2003, 01:31:01 PM

Title: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: redrumloa on February 03, 2003, 01:31:01 PM

Well my first attempt at getting this set up failed miserably. Maybe it's me, so i just walked away from it before i blow my top, I had plenty of distractions, I'll try again soon. Meanwhile I figured I'd ask again if anyone else got theirs and if they set it up for use with WinUAE yet?

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: redrumloa on February 04, 2003, 09:51:17 PM

Wow this product must have sold miserably:-( Come on people get off your wallets!!

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: on February 04, 2003, 10:24:05 PM

The reason that it did sell miserably if it did is because of the poor driver support for it.

All the drivers that I seen lacked one thing or another which puts doubt in my mind if it even works.

I'm not paying for something that's not real.

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: Quixote on February 04, 2003, 10:25:19 PM

Redrumloa Ranted:

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Wow this product must have sold miserably:-( Come on people get off your wallets!!

:-? As I recall, until the Catweasel came along there was no way to read Amiga formatted floppy disks on another platform, so the author(s) of UAE didn't program floppy support into UAE.  I suspect that until UAE is re-written to use the Catweasel, you'll have to continue with .adf files...

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: on February 05, 2003, 12:41:38 AM

well, I got mine today (err.. make that yesterday), but Im not having a great deal of success with the UAE drivers either.

Im thinking it might be to do with the fact that I installed the windows drivers first, and had to disable them as per teh instructions so that I could install the UAE drivers.

Will have another go tomorrow night probably...

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: redrumloa on February 05, 2003, 01:37:38 PM

@Quixote

It supposedly has UAE support.

@scropp

I'm stuck where you are.

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: analogkid on February 05, 2003, 06:58:21 PM

hi,

what about Disk2FDI ?

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: on February 05, 2003, 10:49:46 PM

@ analogkid
Err...

What about it?  :-?

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: on February 05, 2003, 11:25:34 PM

@ redrumloa

It works!  :-D

I think the problem lay in the fact that I had disabled the card in the windows system window and so the IO space the card needed had been taken away from it.

I have currently re-enabled it, but have not yet rebooted, so windows has not re-enabled the drivers.

Not pretty, but it seems to have worked.

I am not sure how I am going to persuade it to leave the card enabled without installing the drivers.

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: Methuselas on February 06, 2003, 05:21:46 AM

Uh, that's kewl and all, but I have Amithlon. I have a machine that runs it. I want Amithlon drivers. Great for you guys.

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: on February 06, 2003, 12:50:49 PM

hmm, the soloution I am using to read the disks in WinUAE appears to use an windows IO library to access the PC hardware directly, and the emulator uses the real amiga multidisk.device, so I would be surprised if a similar soloution could not be created for Amithlon, its the same hardware after all...

Title: Re: Catweasel Flipper for WinUAE.
Post by: wjam on March 07, 2003, 03:16:53 PM

Has anyone got the catweasel pci/flipper to work with Amithlon?

If so what driver did you use?
How and where did you install the driver?