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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: darksun9210 on July 22, 2007, 09:52:26 PM

Title: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: darksun9210 on July 22, 2007, 09:52:26 PM

evening all! hope you're all doing fine. as for myself, i'm having a bit of a mental blockage...

i have an A500 as specc'd up below, and i need to get MUI installed to be able to run the trident preferences program for the Subway USB card to be activated!

i have parneted the A500 to my A1200 to copy stuff over in the past, the problem i have is that my A530 as been converted to a molex power socket, and the mini-itx PSU i usually have running the A1200, is powering the A530.
so i can't have both the A1200 and A500 running at the same time. previously to copy files, i used my gvp HD8+, as that had its own PSU but that has since gone south, so i can't use that as a temporary measure to have both my A500 and A1200 running at the same time.

so i need to get MUI 3.8 installed on my 500 to be able to run the Trident USB stack prefs program, to activate the subway card, to be able to read a USB stick with the MUI.lha on it. ARGH! :lol:
all i have available is the standard double density floppy drive, plus various PC's used for storing ADFs, and as software life support for my amigas.

so really, i need to get the 900+kb MUI download onto a 720kb PC diskette :roll:

Title: Re: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: Boot_WB on July 22, 2007, 10:07:19 PM

Is it a single archive?
Either unarc it and just copy some of the MUI files at a time, or use a splitter like HJSplit (http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/).

Bob's your second cousin.

Title: Re: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: keropi on July 22, 2007, 10:18:38 PM

go the HJSPLIT route, there are some files inside the MUI archive that windows don't like... if u use windows to unarc it lo

Title: Re: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: pyrre on July 23, 2007, 10:00:12 PM

or, you could run WinUAE..
unpack .lha
repack files into appropriate sized .lha's to fit the 720kb disk.

that worked for me until i got the zip drive up and running...

Title: Re: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: Piru on July 23, 2007, 10:06:55 PM

@pyrre

Or you can drop WinUAE and just use Windows LhA (that might do nasty things to protection bits though)...

Title: Re: Subway USB installation in an A500 / MUI install problems
Post by: pyrre on July 24, 2007, 01:48:05 AM

Yes, but the safest way. If no other option is possible.
(to save the protection bits) is WinUAE...
Though, it's hard work getting it ti work, in the first place.... :-(