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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: notsonic on February 17, 2007, 12:13:52 AM

Title: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Explorer problems.
Post by: notsonic on February 17, 2007, 12:13:52 AM

well, heres the problem.

i have an amiga 500 with an icd ram expansion. (one of the more involved ones. so i think im around 2 or 3mb.)

my workbench 1.3 disk is pretty fubar so the only thing i could find to replace it with was 3.1 so i picked up that and the rom.

installed the rom (of course i have a rev5 mobo so i had to do some soldering. :-( )

wb3.1 works great, no problems.

but now when i try to do the amiga explorer setup the pc gets an error "error reading from com port" after the RX RAM:Setup step. (when it tries to copy over the amiga explorer file.)

i was able to get this to work in 1.3 but since my disk is so messed up i couldnt format disks or anything. and now that i changed the rom i cant boot 1.3 anymore...

ive also tried copying the files onto an msdos disk and i cant for the life of me figure out how to get crossdos to work.

any help would be greatly appreciated. :-)

also if anyone knows where i can score a harddrive for my 500 id be very appreciative.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Exploer problems.
Post by: adolescent on February 17, 2007, 12:31:52 AM

PC0: (the crossdos floppy device) is on your Storage floppy.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Exploer problems.
Post by: notsonic on February 17, 2007, 12:34:15 AM

how do i work it?

ive only got the internal disk drive.

i assume i just double click pc0 right?

but then when i pop in a disk it just comes up as df0:???? on the desktop

Title: Re: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Exploer problems.
Post by: jimbo100 on February 17, 2007, 12:49:13 AM

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notsonic wrote:
i assume i just double click pc0 right?

Yes

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but then when i pop in a disk it just comes up as df0:???? on the desktop

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That is normal, put in a PC formatted DD disk and it will read it.  DF0: is the amiga disk, PC0: is the PC disk.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Exploer problems.
Post by: notsonic on February 17, 2007, 01:09:42 AM

when i put the msdos disk in, a PC0 icon should come up on my desktop right?

all im getting is DF0:????

Title: Re: Amiga 500 3.1 with Amiga Exploer problems.
Post by: notsonic on February 17, 2007, 04:22:44 AM

well i never managed to get crossdos to work.

however i found ADF Sender and the little basic program for the amiga side. works awesome (just a little slow of course.)

adf2disk is great too.


too bad shadow of the beast doesnt seem to work with 3.1 roms.