I've ordered a Greaseweazle board, and just set up FS-UAE emulator on my Puppy Linux computer. I'm hoping to be able to salvage data off of my old Amiga floppies.

I did take the hard drive out of my Amiga 2000 as a last ditch effort to salvage it DIY. It hadn't even spun up when tried before, so I opened the cover and warranty warning tape, and carefully rotated the platters with a screwdriver in the hub, and gently moved the head arm. Then re-assembeled. When powered up the disk spun up and I could hear the head move one click. But that was it.

Removing the cover again, and trying under power, the disk spun up AND the head started seeking. The difference turned out to be a result of light getting into the case. Apparently the head position in this drive (Quantum) was determined by a optical encoder, and, I believe that the light source of the reader no longer works. But with the case open, light passed through the encoder strip, and the drive became more active.

Unfortunately, the seeking with the cover off wasn't sufficient to properly initialize the drive, so I've given up on recovering the HD. But, to me, it was worth a try, since the drive was toast already (and frozen), and it was quite educational to see exactly how this one works.

My other problem is obtaining a kickstart ROM image, since my monitor and keyboard are long dead, and gone. True $40 I can buy  a copy protected new one, but since I already own my A2000, that bothers me. For the present I'll just try to make do with UAE, and the included emulated 1.3 ROM image to try to get my data off of the floppies when the Greaseweazle board gets here.

Thanks again for this forum resource. Glad to have joined.

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The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months:

- News from July/August 2025.
- Old articles from Génération 4 48 to 53: News: Les 4 D'Or FNAC/Génération 4 1992, Interview with Brett Sperry, Review of Superhero, News: Street Fighter 2 pre-release, Review of Legends of Valour, Review of Tearaway Thomas, Interview with Ian Hetherington, Interview with Joel Billings, File: Les manettes de jeu (1992), Report: ECTS Automne 1992, Review of Gobliins 2, etc.
- Interview with Steffen Häuser (Amiga developer).
- Interview with Jon St. John (voice actor, voice of Duke Nukem).
- Hardware: A1200BG (update).
- Hardware: SATA PCI Hard Card.
- Hardware: RAMesses.
- DIY: Extracting Amiga components, put down that screwdriver!
- DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 3, PCI bus hardware interrupts.
- DIY: AmigaOne XE - part 4, with a new core.
- DIY: Controlling HippoPlayer with a remote control.
- Articles from floppy disk magazine ZINE #3 (February 1990).
- File: History of the development of Vroom.
- File: Working with Andy Warhol, Jeff Bruette's memories.
- File: History of the development of PixelMachine.
- File: Amiga Corporation products for the Atari 2600 (update).
- Tutorial: Tips and tricks for ClassicWB.
- Programming: asl.library and GFA Basic.
- Programming: Assembler - Display sprites and BOBs on Amiga OCS and AGA.
- Special quiz about the names of Amiga games.

Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.
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@Twiggy I’ll try that tomorrow on my day off thanks.

@broadblues  that’s way over my level of skills at the moment. I had an a500 mostly back in the day and bought a second hand a1200 quite a few years later but never messed with it as it had loads of stuff already installed. Rediscovering Amiga many years later thanks to Matthew at Amigakit (I run the a500/a1200/a600gs Facebook group) so hoping to learn and spread the good word in my group😎

Whoa! I finally did it! The Cannon Fodder WHDLoad version started to load at last! The problem was that I had to uncheck the "Use Faster Chipset" option, which was preventing the game from running for some reason.

Use faster chipset was added as an experiment for those requesting options for WHDBoot games, (previously default setup was always used). It's can causes quirks though and you should always start with it set to off and only turn on if you experience slow performance on a heavy blitting game. This would also explain the flickers in the ADF version BTW