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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: peroxidechicken on July 31, 2003, 12:36:21 AM
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I've been using the previous version of WinUAE for some time and was always a little curious about why my floppy disk files were stuck on 'read only'. But it didn't bother me because I'd just copy files I wanted to change to my hard disk file.
Until my hard disk file also became 'read only'. I know there's a little dialouge box to change such things for hard disk files but it's just not doing the trick. I downloaded the latest WinUAE and started with a new hard disk file so I guess I'll get around to mounting my old one and copying files over - has anyone had a similar experience?
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I've had UAE set the readonly flag on files that I copy from read only disks (usually CD) onto the UAE hard disk... That's probably what you're seeing.... Try opening a shell and CD to the root of the drive with the readonly files, and
do a "protect #? +rw". That should, with any luck, fix things up :)
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Ah - such a simple solution. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks Merc, that was driving me crazy!
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Glad I could help :-D
I've been meaning to mention this to the WinUAE guys for a while now, I think it only happens when you have a CD mounted on the Amiga side as a directory from the PC -- if you use IDEFix and uaescsi.device, with a proper AmigaOS dosdriver I think it works as it should.. Probably because the read-only flag gets checked off when you set up the CDROM in UAE, and it just filters the writable/deletable flags when files get copied.
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derek.lofthouse@ntlworld.com
came across an old amiga game silent service11
which my grandson wants to play on a pent 3 comp
as a real novice on comps how and what do I do your help would be appreciated please xplain in simple terms
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came across an old amiga game silent service11
which my grandson wants to play on a pent 3 comp
as a real novice on comps how and what do I do your help would be appreciated please xplain in simple terms
Welcome to A.org :-D
You might want to make a new topic for this otherwise I doubt that you'll get many replies. Anyway, I've written an article that may interest you:
What You Need To Emulate (http://www.yourdreamnet.co.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/What_You_Need_to_Emulate)
Basically you need an emulator - a special program that makes your PC think its an Amiga. For that to work, you then need an "image" of the ROM - the Kickstart ROM is a special chip inside an Amiga that has software the emulator needs. It's illegal to download it, so you can either copy it across from an existing Amiga, or get a licensed version. You might be interested in Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/) - it's a combined package that includes the ROMs and emulators, so it's far easier to set up.
Once you have a working emulator, you then need to transfer the disk to the PC, but lets see if the emulator will work first.
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I've had UAE set the readonly flag on files that I copy from read only disks (usually CD) onto the UAE hard disk... That's probably what you're seeing....
I've run into a similar, yet different problem with WinUAE. I think mine is actually GUI-related. Whenever I choose a HDFile for my hard drive, it selects it as "Read Only." I can add a checkmark for the "R/W" option, and it promptly removes it when I go back and view it again. If I set the check on it and just start the emulation, it mounts the drive as read-only, anyhow. Very annoying. Not sure how to fix.