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Title: Setting Up UAE (winUAE)
Post by: irishmike on April 21, 2006, 02:04:09 PM

Hello All:

I am setting up WinUAE and have been reading the online documentation, however, I am having trouble making a configuration of my own.

I need to:

1) Copy the ROM image file into the proper place
2) Setup a Hard Drive File (I think they call it a hardfile)
3) Install WB 3.1 to the new hardfile

I have found out I can load the ROM file and ADF of the WB 3.1 disk and it works, but of course the configuration is not saved.

Also, I have never setup an Amiga Hard Drive and could use help doing that as well.

If anyone here has had experience setting up UAE or WinUAE from scratch, help is appreciated!

At the very least, I need a step by step making the Hard Drive.

Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: Setting Up UAE (winUAE)
Post by: Boot_WB on April 21, 2006, 02:29:06 PM

Hi Mike,

On the inital screen there are a list of tabs on the left -

Once you've set all the settings you want go back onto the 'configurations' tab - enter a configuration name and hit 'save'.

When starting up WinUAE you can then load the configuration settings on this same screen.

There is a program called saverom with Piru's blizkick - use that to capture your rom image, then transfer that to your PC.

For 1) go onto the 'ROM' tab - click on the ... button next to  'Main Rom File' and point the browse window to the location of your new ROM image.

For 2) go onto the 'hard drives' tab and click on 'Add Hardfile' - the bottom half of this window is used to create the hardfile of xxxMB - there is a drop down menu allowing you to choose the filesystem.  This just exists as a file on your hard-drive and does not require unpartitioned space.

For 3) you will need to create ADF (or DMS) images of the 3.1 install disks and transfer these to your PC harddrive - then go to the 'floppy drives' tab and point DF1,2,3 to the locations of these ADFs (or DMSs).

When installing WB you can change the disk by clicking on the 'power' button at the bottom of the UAE window and going back to the 'floppy drives' tab.

I'd recommend you go onto the 'misc' tab also and enable UAEscsi.device, as this will allow you to mount your CD rom using just a standard mountfile in dosdrivers, using device = UAEscsi.device, Unit = 0.

Hope that helps for now. :-)

Title: Re: Setting Up UAE (winUAE)
Post by: irishmike on April 21, 2006, 02:34:12 PM

Thanks for the help!  This will help me save the config... I was going through the Tabs in WinUAE and just never saved the config.

Now my kind of part 2 of the question was actually the process of setting up a hard drive (yes in UAE it will be the hardfile) but eventually I will be on my A1200 and need this knowledge.

On the PC you'd partition, format, then install your OS... what is the process on the Amiga?

Thanks,

Title: Re: Setting Up UAE (winUAE)
Post by: eightbit on April 23, 2006, 02:03:01 PM

Did you go to Green alien's guide (http://guide.abime.net) yet?  They have excellent walkthroughs for this sort of thing. :-)