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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: thechris on August 29, 2012, 10:56:37 AM

Title: Any Tampa Amiga Users?
Post by: thechris on August 29, 2012, 10:56:37 AM

A neighbor of mine was telling me how she had some photos/files of relatives that are no longer with us on Amiga floppy disks. I thought sure I would help her and read up on UAE.  

So I installed UAE and then looked into how to read the floppy drives, only to find I couldn't.  Looking into the additional steps required I thought I was out of my depth.  

Which brings me to this post.  Are there any Tampa Amiga users I might be able to point her to to help?  I have a complete XP machine running UAE, but not more than that.

Thanks,

The Chris

PS Keep up all the great work.

Title: Re: Any Tampa Amiga Users?
Post by: som99 on August 29, 2012, 12:36:24 PM

Quote from: thechris;705784

A neighbor of mine was telling me how she had some photos/files of relatives that are no longer with us on Amiga floppy disks. I thought sure I would help her and read up on UAE.  

So I installed UAE and then looked into how to read the floppy drives, only to find I couldn't.  Looking into the additional steps required I thought I was out of my depth.  

Which brings me to this post.  Are there any Tampa Amiga users I might be able to point her to to help?  I have a complete XP machine running UAE, but not more than that.

Thanks,

The Chris

PS Keep up all the great work.

The PC floppy drive cant read amiga formated DD floppies, you need either a catweasle or a real Amiga im afraid :(

Title: Re: Any Tampa Amiga Users?
Post by: Borut on August 29, 2012, 05:39:54 PM

A solution get if there is nobody who can help - get an old A500 or better A1200 with CrossDos and you can write the disks to PC disks.
See the description that I easyily found with a little help of google http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/faq_crossplatform.php

Another possible solution if there is nobody who can help nearby http://www.vesalia.de/e_catweaselmk4.htm

Title: Re: Any Tampa Amiga Users?
Post by: motrucker on August 29, 2012, 10:43:03 PM

Used to be a huge Amiga user group in Tampa named TBAG. There must be a few people left around there....

Title: Re: Any Tampa Amiga Users?
Post by: Rob on August 29, 2012, 10:54:24 PM

If you have 2 non USB floppy drives then you may be able to read the Amiga disks with no special hardware.

http://www.winuae.net/

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for ADFread info and download.